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Videos capture FOSDEM embedded Linux talks

Mar 1, 2006 — by LinuxDevices Staff — from the LinuxDevices Archive — 1 views

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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