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Systems, Networks & Security

Linux & open-source ecosystems

Linux & open-source ecosystems sits within Systems, Networks & Security. Follow the boundaries between infrastructure, reliability, trust, and the people operating a system. This selection contains 94 catalog videos from 76 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include linux, linus torvalds, open source, linux kernel, freebsd and git. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, music, news, other, podcast, talk and tutorial. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos”, listed under USENIX, is cataloged as talk. Bryan Cantrill's LISA11 talk on how illumos arose after Oracle closed OpenSolaris. It covers the history of Sun, ZFS, DTrace and Zones, and the diaspora of kernel engineers, with a famous rant…

“DebConf 14: QA with Linus Torvalds”, listed under Adnan Hodzic, is cataloged as interview. A 72-minute Q&A with Linus Torvalds at DebConf 14. Topics include the pain of distributing Linux binaries, distro fragmentation, kernel backwards compatibility, GPLv2 versus GPLv3 and conduct.

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