[Ilugc] Jun Month ILUGC Meet
- From: sbharathi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bharathi Subramanian)
- Date: Tue Jun 10 12:19:36 2008
ILUGC Meet (Jun 14th):-
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Time : Sat Jun 14th 15:00 IST 2008
Venue: ADI-TeNeT Seminar Hall,
Room No: CSD 320,
Electrical Science Block,
IIT-Madras.
Map: http://www.chennailug.org/tenet
Talk 1: Brief intro to Deb Packages and the Release cycle:
Speaker: Kumar Appaiah, Debian Developer
Duration: ~30mins
Debian GNU/Linux has a fairly complicated release process, with
packages first entering unstable, then moving to testing and, finally,
testing becomes stable. How do packages actually make their way
through this path? Also, what's the weirdness with these Toy Story
characters? This talk will attempt to answer these questions with the
following:
- How a package enters Debian, and a description of unstable
- Building packages for various architectures
- The transition from unstable to testing: how dependency based
transitions are resolved, rules for transition.
- Freeze and stable
- Updates to stable
Talk 2: Kernel Development and FOSS Licensing
Speaker: Luis R. Rodriguez, compat-wireless package maintainer.
Duration: ~1Hr
An introduction to kernel development, with emphasis on wireless
development. And an overview of the various FOSS licenses and the
differences between them. Speaker is one of the hackers behind ath5k
- the reverse engineered Atheros WLAN device driver.
Ath5K:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k
Talk 3: Small tutorial on IP routing and a Redundancy Demo
Speaker: Girish Venkatachalam, Maintainer of no. of OpenBSD Patches.
Duration: ~30mins
Redundancy/HA is a mandatory feature for most of the critical
services. In this talk, we will discuss about the routing issues
occurs during the copy switch over and its solution with a small demo.
Talk 4: Software Porting - 45mins
Speaker: Naran, HP India.
Duration: ~45mins
This talk focuses on the basic porting issues raises during:
a) Porting between X OS and Y OS
b) Porting between 32bit and 64bit
c) Porting between different processors
and How to write porting friendly code.
HTH :)
--
Bharathi S
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