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Linux 2006
Conference and Tutorials
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Thursday 29th June to Sunday 2nd July
University of Sussex, Brighton

Linux 2006

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Tutorials

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Talks

Timetable

Introductory Day

Accommodation

Dinner

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Timetable

All information is subject to change without notice (including speakers, timings and running order).

Thursday, 29th June

09:00-09:30
Tutorial Registration. Coffee.
09:30-11:00
TUTORIAL: Building and Maintaining RPM Packages

Jos Vos - X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV

TUTORIAL: MySQL Optimisation

Mark Leith - MySQL

11:00-11:30
Coffee
11:30-13:00
RPM Tutorial continued MySQL Tutorial continued
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:30
RPM Tutorial continued TUTORIAL: Using SystemTap and kdump

Richard J Moore - IBM

15:30-16:00
Coffee
16:00-17:30
RPM Tutorial continued SystemTap Tutorial continued
17:30
End of sessions

Friday, 30th June

09:30-10:00
Conference Registration.
10:00-10:45
Sed: more than just s/foo/bar/

Tethys

The State of Open Source in Higher and Further Education

Stuart Yeates - OSS Watch

10:45-11:15
Coffee
11:15-12:00
Virtual Curtains for Privacy Enhancement

Torsten Spindler - ETH Zurich

How does OSS stack up?

Mark Taylor & Duncan Gibb - Sirius Corporation

12:00-12:45
MySQL Roadmap

Mark Leith - MySQL

Desktop Linux Innovation at Novell

Ted Haeger - Novell

12:45-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:00
Linux HA v2: One CRM to rule them all

Lars Marowsky-Bree - SuSE Labs (Novell)

(Free)NX - Remote Desktop Access - Present and Future

Fabian Franz - Knoppix Team

15:00-15:45
The Interactive Europen Grid project (int.eu.grid)

Stuart Kenny

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop: Under the Hood

Ted Haeger - Novell

15:45-16:15
Coffee
16:15-17:00
Settling onto decent Python Web Technologies

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

Taking Xara LX Open Source

Alex Bligh

17:00-17:45
Apache at The Register: Building a Large Website from mod_rewrite and mod_include

Aaron Crane - The Register

depinit

Richard Lightman

18:00
End of sessions
19:30-24:00
Conference Dinner
Sponsored by Positive Internet

Saturday, 1st July

09:00-09:30
Conference Registration.
09:30-10:15
What are all these distributions and how should I choose one?

Stuart Yeates - OSS Watch

Linux at Home

John Pinner - Clockwork Software Systems

10:15-11:00
An introduction to Networking

Antony Stone

How Hardware Supported Virtualization in Xen works

Mats Petersson - AMD

11:00-11:30
Coffee
11:30-12:15
Advocating Linux

Jono Bacon - OpenAdvantage / LUGRadio

Porting uCLinux on a Coldfire processor: Writing Frame Buffer Drivers

Craig Duffy & Edwin Langley - Bristol UWE

12:15-13:00
Getting Started with Apache

Jim Kissel - OSM Ltd.

Hardware hacking on a budget; the Amstrad E3

Jonathan McDowell

13:00-13:45
Lunch
13:45-14:15
Progress Towards an All-Party Parliamentary Open Source Group

Leslie Fletcher

14:15-15:00
An introduction to the politics of Linux

Andrew Nicolson - Southampton Institute

A low-cost Linux based graphics cluster for cultural visualisation in virtual environments

Aidan Delaney - University of Brighton

15:00-15:45
Securing Linux

Nils Magnus

Developing VoIP applications

Daniel Pocock

15:45-16:15
Coffee
16:15-17:00
Creating DVD videos on Linux and Unix systems

Ben Hutchings

The Linux Error Detection and Correction subsystem (EDAC)

Tim Small

17:00-17:45
OpenOffice.org beyond 2.0...

Michael Meeks - Novell

Automated Debian Installs for fun and profit

Phil Hands

17:45-18:30
Kubuntu Dapper and KDE 4: The GNU/Linux Desktop

Jonathan Riddell - Canonical

Flash memories and MTD Subsystem under Linux (TBC)

Networking and Internet Software Group - C-DAC, Pune University

18:30
End of sessions

Sunday, 2nd July

09:30-09:45
Conference Registration.
09:45-10:30
State of Play: Free Software, ready or not?

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

10:30-11:15
ROOT and PROOF

Ruediger Berlich - Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe

11:15-11:45
Coffee
11:45-12:30
30 million and counting: An insight into a enterprise level open source systems

Neil McGovern - Fotopic.net

12:30-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:15
OpenStreetMap: The First Year

Steve Coast - OpenStreetMap

14:15-15:00
ubuntu 6.06 LTS: Lickable, Triumphant, Suspendible

Paul Sladen

15:00-15:45
The new ARM Linux ABI, and making a Debian port for it

Wookey

15:45
End of event


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