Brussels / 3 & 4 February 2024

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Distributions devroom


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Sunday UKIs, TPMs, immutable initrds and full disk encryption – What Distributions Should Keep in Mind when Hopping onto the System Integrity Train
Adapting Your Project: Making Changes Without Breaking Linux Distributions
Enhancing Linux Accessibility: A Unified Approach
The State of Enterprise Linux 2024
AlmaLinux: How to make a RHEL compatible distribution
mkosi-initrd: Building initrds out of distribution packages
The Monolith versus the Swarm - A Comparison of openSUSE’s and Fedora’s Build Infrastructures
Desktop Linux, as easy as a smartphone! Just in a Snap!
Upstream and downstream, best friends forever?
Supporting architecture psABIs with GNU Guix
Releasing a Linux based OS: an overview of Flatcar release cycle
An introduction to Image Builder: building up-to-date, customised operating system images the easy way
2023 in Chimera Linux
Homebrew's Evolution

Read the Call for Papers at https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2023q4/003529.html.

Linux distributions are critical digital infrastructure in the 2020s. In addition to their relevance today, they are some of the oldest and most historic Free and Open Source Software communities still in existence. As the context of Linux distributions changes and evolves since their origin in 1991, they remain an important fixture in digital infrastructure. Linux distributions do important work in ensuring various versions of upstream software work well together and can co-exist. They are also often responsible for “de-vendoring” upstream software so that security fixes can be applied more quickly. Additionally, Linux distributions have become the centerpiece of other important infrastructure projects like containers and container orchestration software. This DevRoom provides a unique home for the convergence of several different Linux distribution communities to share ideas and start conversations that matter to all of us. Although there are several different distributions that have different approaches to software packaging, choice of desktop environments, and various use cases, this DevRoom is a historic open forum that is unique to FOSDEM in making a space for all of our communities to share and learn from each other.

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Sunday

  UKIs, TPMs, immutable initrds and full disk encryption – What Distributions Should Keep in Mind when Hopping onto the System Integrity Train
Lennart Poettering 09:00 09:55
  Adapting Your Project: Making Changes Without Breaking Linux Distributions
Fernando Fernandez Mancera 10:00 10:25
  Enhancing Linux Accessibility: A Unified Approach
Vojtech Polasek, Lukáš Tyrychtr 10:30 11:25
  The State of Enterprise Linux 2024
Scott McCarty 11:30 11:55
  AlmaLinux: How to make a RHEL compatible distribution
Andrew Lukoshko 12:00 12:25
  mkosi-initrd: Building initrds out of distribution packages
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Daan De Meyer 12:30 12:55
  The Monolith versus the Swarm - A Comparison of openSUSE’s and Fedora’s Build Infrastructures
Dan Čermák 13:00 13:25
  Desktop Linux, as easy as a smartphone! Just in a Snap!
Till Kamppeter 13:30 13:55
  Upstream and downstream, best friends forever?
František Lachman 14:00 14:25
  Supporting architecture psABIs with GNU Guix
Efraim Flashner 14:30 14:55
  Releasing a Linux based OS: an overview of Flatcar release cycle
Mathieu Tortuyaux, Sayan Chowdhury 15:00 15:25
  An introduction to Image Builder: building up-to-date, customised operating system images the easy way
Sanne Raymaekers 15:30 15:55
  2023 in Chimera Linux
Daniel Kolesa 16:00 16:25
  Homebrew's Evolution
Mike McQuaid 16:30 16:55