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Saturday An User & Developer Perspective on Immutable OSes Homebrew: macOS Big Sur and ARM Two different approaches to building a distribution: OpenHarmony and OpenMandriva
An overview of very different ideas - from someone involved in both projects
openSUSE MicroOS, a platform for everything from containers, to IoT, and even the desktop
Bigger isn't better, slower isn't safer
Why Public Database as a Service is Prime for Open Source Distribution

Read the Call for Papers at https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2020q4/003128.html.

As more and more workloads are being considered for containerization in the future and are finally landing in virtualized environments today, distributions remain a critical success factor and are more important than ever. Containers, like virtual machines, are not magical and rely on piles of software being assembled in a way that is repeatable, reliable, and functional. This is at the very heart of the problem that distributions have always solved. Each distribution is responsible for building, testing, and releasing software as well as managing the lifecycle of each application in the collection. Additionally, distributions do very important work in ensuring that various versions of upstream software work well together and can co-exist. Distributions are also, often responsible, for "de-vendoring" upstream software so that security fixes can be applied more quickly.

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Saturday

  An User & Developer Perspective on Immutable OSes Dario Faggioli 12:30 12:55
  Homebrew: macOS Big Sur and ARM Mike McQuaid 13:00 13:30
  Two different approaches to building a distribution: OpenHarmony and OpenMandriva
An overview of very different ideas - from someone involved in both projects
Bernhard Rosenkränzer 13:30 14:00
  openSUSE MicroOS, a platform for everything from containers, to IoT, and even the desktop
Bigger isn't better, slower isn't safer
Richard Brown 14:45 15:30
  Why Public Database as a Service is Prime for Open Source Distribution Peter Zaitsev 15:30 15:55