A dozen videos addressing topics of interest to embedded Linux developers are now available from Free-Electrons, a small company in the South of France that distributes free embedded Linux documentation and training materials. The videos were shot at last week's FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting) in Brussels, Belgium.

Videos include:

• Towards a common embedded power management solution
  by David Weinehall and Sampsa Fabritius (both from Nokia)
• Lock-Free Data Exchange for Real-time applications
  by Peter Soetens (Flander's Mechatronics Technology Center, Leuven)
• Real-time patches for Linux
  by Klaas van Gend (MontaVista)
• Alsa SoC layer
  by Liam Girdwood (Wolfson Microelectronics)
• Building and supporting distributions with OpenEmbedded
  by Koen Kooi (Familiar release manager)
• SLIND, a small Debian for embedded systems
  by Benjamin Collar (Siemens)
• Openocd, the Open On-Chip Debugger
  by Dominic Rath (University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg)
• SETR LiveCD, live tool for embedded development
  by Hector Oron
• Optimizing the Linux kernel and applications
  by Michael Opdenacker
• Software patents
  by Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation)
• The challenge of the GNU/Linux desktop
  by Jeff Vaugh (Ubuntu / Gnome); (“very entertaining!” notes Opdenacker)

The videos were shot by Free Electrons founder Michael Opdenacker. They are encoded using royalty-free Ogg-Theora codecs, and like other material available from Free Electrons, are published under the Creative Commons Attribution – Share Alike 2.5 license. They can be freely downloaded via http or bit-torrent from Free Electrons's conference videos page.

Opdenacker says, “Enjoy them!”

 
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