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Steven Dickens, IBM Systems, will give a talk on the following: In this session you will hear about the community movement around the mainframe platform and how IBM and others are working within the framework of the Linux Foundation collaborative projects structure to embrace the community. The session will cover the porting of openSUSE to the OS/390 platform and also highlight how the community i...

The openSUSE project was born to ensure the existence and independence of a free (as in free speech) Linux distribution. But there is something you can take for granted if you create a community of technology enthusiasts - at some point they will start to create cool new things. Thus, openSUSE has become the home of many open source projects like OSEM, Portus, Jangouts, Machinery or zypper-docker....

The SSSD project started as a deamon that allows to resolve users and groups in LDAP, but is gaining more features over time. In this talk, I would like to give an overview of the features SSSD has, with focus on what was introduced into the project in the last couple of years or the features we are working on now. In particular, I would like to show how SSSD allows the administrator to easily enr...

openSUSE has a wonderful platform with OBS, and tools like software.opensuse.org and 1-Click installs make it very easy for users to get additional software on their machines. This talk will discuss how this is quite often a very bad thing, leading to problems for users as well as extra work for maintainers in both the short and long term. It will discuss the benefits of putting software packages...

Aaron & Peter KOLAB SYSTEMS about this event: https://c3voc.de

Michael Miller is the President of Strategy, Alliances & Marketing for SUSE about this event: https://c3voc.de

Cheetah is fast and secure native way to execute scripts and programs in Ruby. It includes native support for pipeing, streaming input/outputs, mandatory error handling and running in chroot. The session will contain live examples of usage and comparison to native ruby methods like backticks or system call. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Georg C. F. Greve KOLAB SYSTEMS CEO about this event: https://c3voc.de

The perf tool was introduced with kernel version 2.6.31 but several major releases later, knowing which of its many features to use when and how to interpret the results is still challenging for many users. In this talk I will present a brief overview of the performance counters provided by modern x86 hardware followed by a discussion of the various monitoring capabilities offered by perf, when to...

PowerPC and ARM ports exist for some time already, as well as unofficial SPARC and Motorola 68k efforts. This talk will go into details of how to start such a port with OBS and give an update on the progress made for mipsel. about this event: https://c3voc.de

YaST has been trying to find a solution to work with configuration files in a way that is easy and reusable, while ensuring the consistency of the resulting configuration. The response is Config Files API (CFA), a generic framework to work with configuration files in Ruby. Although currently is only used in the yast2-bootloader module, CFA will become one of the key components of YaST in the near...

OBS (Open Build Service) is an awesome piece of software which is yet unmatched by other available software suites. This talk shows how Kopano approached the change in their build system, and how they integrated fully fledged build requirements into OBS. From adding real custom distributions such as Collax (just using DEB, without bootstrapping at all) to integrating with Atlassian Stash - All thi...

openSUSE relies on native compilation today, resorting to QEMU linux-user emulation for non-native build targets. Here's a brief update of where we are with building real cross-compilers, including for non-Linux targets such as microcontrollers, from our SUSE-maintained GCC packages. about this event: https://c3voc.de

Summit visitors about this event: https://c3voc.de

The first openSUSE.Asia was awesome in Beijing, China, and this time we also made it great in Taipei , Taiwan. We designed some event made it different, and connected with local community to do more sharing and promotion for openSUSE. Just like last year said , we would like to continue this event in the future, so we will take this opportunity to introduce 2nd summit what it different, and what d...

Georg C. F. Greve KOLAB SYSTEMS CEO about this event: https://c3voc.de

How openSUSE runs its own infrastructure about this event: https://c3voc.de

Jeroen van Meeuwen SYSTEMS ARCHITECT about this event: https://c3voc.de

Booting is hard. Booting in the ARM world is even harder. State of the art are a dozen different boot loaders that may or may not deserve that name. Each gets configured differently and each has its own pros and cons. As a distribution this is a nightmare. Configuring each and every one of them complicates code that really should be very simple. To solve the problem, we can just add another layer...

AppArmor is an effective and easy-to-use Linux application security system. AppArmor proactively protects the operating system and applications from external or internal threats, even zero-day attacks, by enforcing good behavior and preventing even unknown application flaws from being exploited. AppArmor security policies, called profiles, completely define what system resources individual applica...

The AArch64 port is now in pretty good shape with most things ported and built. However we know that there is plenty of software that is not optimised and some may not actually work at all. Please come along and moan about anything you have found which doesn't work as well on AArch64 as it does on x86. We (Linaro, ARM and openSUSE) want your feedback on where to direct effort next. This talk will...

A talk from Martin Graesslin (one of the top Plasma developers) about how to Improve the quality of Plasma with Wayland about this event: https://c3voc.de

Scale-out block storage offerings, such as Ceph RADOS Block Devices, offer a number of desirable features including fault tolerance, thin-provisioning, online resize and snapshots. Exposing such storage for access via an embedded USB storage gadget can solve a number of factors limiting adoption, namely: - Interoperability + Cloud storage can now be consumed by almost any system with a USB port -...

Norman Fraser, Ph. D. is the CEO of SoftIron Ltd. about this event: https://c3voc.de

OpenQA is openSUSE's powerful installation testing environment. It normally tests whole ISO images that need to be mastered first it is not very straightforward to check single packages within the development process of new features or bug fixes. I'll show you how we managed to test our stuff as early as possible without mastering whole ISOs and how we enabled our developers to easily adapt existi...