Autumn is approaching, along with the annual LinuxDays conference on 7 and 8 October in Prague. Vote for the talks!
The sixth LinuxDays conference is approaching. As every year, we plan to attend, and as usual you can help shape the event. Have a look at photos from last year.
We plan to have a stand again, talk with people and give several interesting talks. Please vote on this year's talks; we would be glad of your support. What have our members prepared?
ZFS on Linux: what is new (Pavel Šnajdr)
Linux distributions are abandoning Btrfs in droves, but ZFS is still with us and making a confident comeback. What is happening with ZFS on Linux? Native encryption, declustered RAID, ZFS-based all-flash arrays and more are on the way.
Smart cards on Linux and why you should care (Jakub Jelen)
Storing private keys and identifying information securely is not simple. Smart cards make it relatively easy. But many types need support, everyone uses different cards, and some have no open specification or implement (closed) ISO standards.
Icinga 2 (on steroids) (Věroš Kaplan)
Icinga can do plenty straight after installation, but with a little tuning it can do much more: monitor from several independent locations, change its configuration dynamically based on the state of resources, and more. We will take a look.
nftables: the future of the Linux firewall (Petr Krčmář)
The iptables firewall has been with us on Linux for more than 15 years, and lately a competitor has been growing: nftables. What makes it interesting, why is it better, and why should you care now?
MySQL will eat your data (David Karban)
While preparing MySQL training, I came across several things you would not expect from a database. It is very easy to lose data with MySQL. Do not believe me? I will show you.
Errbot: chat-centric way of life (Michal Halenka)
A practical demonstration of the Errbot chat bot's features. The presentation introduces Errbot, installation, basic uses and writing your own plugins.
IPv6 tunnels with OpenVPN (Ondřej Caletka)
When SixXS shut down, many networks lost global connectivity. Unfortunately, native IPv6 from an ISP is not available everywhere, and even a public IPv4 address is often a problem. A temporary workaround is needed. At vpsFree.cz, we have prepared our own tunneling service using OpenVPN. How does it work, what are the pitfalls, and how can you join?
What should your startup run on: do you really need to pay for the cloud? (Ondřej Flídr)
The cloud is sexy, IaaS is sexy, lugging servers and cables around is not. Or is it? We will discuss choosing the right infrastructure for your project, considering not just how cool it is, but the technical and business aspects too. Cautionary tales from real life included!
Disassembly with radare2 (Tomáš Antecký)
An introduction to an open-source reverse engineering toolkit. Part of the talk will be a practical demonstration of using radare2 to solve a simple crackme.
Creating cross-platform GUI applications in any language (Daniel Kolesa)
Using C libraries from other programming languages has always been a little troublesome. You can write bindings, but their complexity grows with the original project, and the need for ongoing maintenance often leaves coverage far from ideal. We have developed a new solution at Samsung Open Source Group and in the Enlightenment project, specifically its EFL application framework.
So vote, and above all, come along!