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Systems, Networks & Security

Operating systems & kernels

Operating systems & kernels sits within Systems, Networks & Security. Follow the boundaries between infrastructure, reliability, trust, and the people operating a system. This selection contains 111 catalog videos from 87 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 unix, bryan cantrill, operating systems, containers, freebsd and linux. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, lecture, other, podcast, talk and tutorial. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“VCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan”, listed under Vintage Computer Federation, is cataloged as interview. Brian Kernighan interviews Unix co-creator Ken Thompson at VCF East 2019. Thompson recounts how he was hired at Bell Labs, writing the Unix kernel in about three weeks, the origins of B…

“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…

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