LinuxWorld Boston, set for April 3-6, includes lots of presentations and panels of potential interest to embedded Linux developers. The event features tracks on “Mobile and Embedded Linux” and “Kernel and Driver Development,” along with sessions on SELinux, DRM, LTSP, out-of-band management, networking, Linux media performance, and real-time Linux.

Scheduled presentations include:

• Mobile & embedded Linux
  • It's not rocket science: open source makes mobile email real
    Fabrizio Capobianco, Funambol
  • Linux for mobile: the move into mainstream
    Mark VandenBrink, Motorola
  • Linux in your hand: today's mobile infrastructure
    Jacob Lehrbaum, MontaVista Software Inc.
  • Linux: it's about (real-) time
    Sven Dietrich
  • Can you hear me now? The mobile phone challenge for Linux
    Bill Weinberg, OSDL
  • The mobile universe and Linux: how Intel continues to grow the mobility initiative
    Len Brown and James Ketrenos, Intel
  • Beyond the PC: the realization of Linux in the mobile device market
    Didier Diaz, PalmSource
  • Building consumer products with open source communities — the Maemo and 770 experiences
    Dr. Ari Jaaski, Nokia
  • Syncing with synchronization mechanisms in Linux
    Thangaraju Balasubramanian, Wipro Inc.
• Kernel and driver development
  • Kernel Performance Project
    Rohit Seth, Intel
  • Demystifying the Linux Kernel Bootstrap Process
    Claudia Salzberg, IBM
  • Generic RDMA enablement in Linux – Why do we need it and How?
    Krishna Kumar, IBM
  • Recent Developments in GCC
    Janis Johnson, IBM
  • Linux Performance: Profiling and Optimization
    Federico Lucifredi, Novell
  • Drowning in TCP/IP Data? Improve CPU Efficiency Through New Innovative Technology
    Kevin Cassidy and Anil Vasudevan, Intel
  • The economic benefits of making open source contributions to the Linux kernel
    James Bottomley, SteelEye Technology Inc.
• Other/misc
  So You Want Open Source: What Does Your Staff Need to Know?
  Kevin Dankwardt, Ph.D., K Computing and IFOSS
  • Linux DRM: possible or oxymoron?
    Jeff Ayars, VP, client technologies, Real Networks
  • Performance methodology for Linux clients
    Maxim Alt, staff software architect, Intel Corporation
  • Introduction to SELinux
    Karl MacMillan, technical director, Tresys Technology
  • Towards highly available, scalable, and secure HPC clusters with HA-OSCAR
    Ibrahim Haddad, Linux initiative manager, OSDL
  • The $100 laptop: Linux attacks the digital divide
    Nicholas Negroponte, cofounder and chairman, MIT Media Laboratory
  • SELinux Panel: current state of SELinux
    Doc Shankar, exec IT architect, IBM
  • Quality of service and firewalls
    Doug Hass, EV/COO, ImageStream
  • Secure network architectures with OpenBSD
    Jason Dixon, founder, DixonGroup Consulting
  • Trusted Linux : The process and results of CAPP/EAL4+ (Case Study)
    Doc Shankar, exec IT architect, IBM
  • Recent enhancements to SELinux: improved management and simpler policy development
    Karl MacMillan, Tresys Technology
  • Improving media application performance on Linux
    Ying Song, technical consulting engineer, Intel
  • Using LTSP to deploy a Linux desktop
    Roger Del Russo, COO, Symbio Technologies
  • The out-of-band network evolves
    Marcio Saito, Cyclades Corporation
  • Charting safe courses through mixed-IP development
    Karen Copenhaver, Black Duck Software

Additional details about the event can be found here. A complete list of sessions and speakers can be downloaded here (PDF download).

 
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