Presentations

The following videos were recorded by the Linux Public Broadcasting Network at the first annual Southern California Linux Expo.

Dan Kegel Presents: Linux In Universities

Businesses and universities are hiring people with Linux Skills, deploying Linux on servers, and evaluating Linux on the desktop. Microsoft's pricing and policies have made Linux an attractive alternative. University IT departments should start planning to support Linux on the desktop in recognition of its increased importance.
-Video by Raymond Steding

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Rasmus Lerdorf Presents: PHP - Scripting the Web

Rasmus Lerdorf born in Godhavn/Qeqertarsauq on Disco Island off the coast of Greenland in 1968. He has been dabbling with UNIX-based solutions since 1985. He's known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995, the mod_info Apache module and he can be blamed for the ANSI92 SQL-defying LIMIT clause in mSQL 1.x which has now, at least conceptually, crept into both MySQL and PostgresSQL. Rasmus discusses PHP's application to web scripting.
-Video by Renu Bora

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J. P. Lewis Presents: Graphics in Linux

JP is a scientist at USC's Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC), where he is researching new facial animation and tracking techniques in collaboration with Ulrich Neumann (IMSC director) and students in the Computer Graphics and Immersive Technology lab. He has software development credits on Forest Gump, Godzilla, and several other movies, several publications and patents, and his research has been adopted in several commercial graphics packages. J.P's talk is about Graphics in Linux
-Video by Benjamin Wade

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Zak Greant Presents: Perils of Open/Free Licensing in a Proprietary World

Zak Greant is a happy member of the Open Source community where he spends most of his time in the MySQL and PHP projects Despite being surrounded by hard-core Emacs addicts at MySQL, he still clings to Vim and brandishes '.' to keep them at bay. Zak discusses Open/Free licensing issues
-Video by Clay Claiborne

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Robert Love Presents: What's New in the 2.5 Kernel?

The Linux kernel 2.5 development series culminated nearly a year of rapid development with the feature freeze on 31 October. Numerous new features and enhancements were merged to further increase Linux's performance and robustness. This talk discusses some of the more interesting and relevant new innovations in the kernel including, but not limited to, block I/O enhancements, new O/(1) scheduler, kernel preemption, new reverse-mapping VM, and thread enhancements.
-Video by Benjamin Wade

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Bill Hilf Presents: IBM's Linux Strategy

Bill Hilf's talk includes an overview of Linux momentum in the marketplace, Total Cost of Ownership, and IBM's commitment to Linux. The latter section, "Linux@IBM" discusses how IBM is investing and using Linux today as well as the contributions and interaction IBM has made and continues with Linux and the Open Source community. Bill also discusses how IBM's customers are deploying Linux today, including descriptions of customer references and solutions
-Video by Renu Bora

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Darren Moffat Presents: Administering Solaris and Linux Securely

An all powerful single user account is often too much power in one person's hands to perform the jobs they need to do. A form of RBAC (Role Based Access Control) has been available in versions of Solaris for over then years but only became main stream in Solaris 8. Darren gives an overview of some of the areas of compatibility and divergence in the OS security features of Solaris and Linux
-Video by Benjamin Wade

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Tim Jones of the Tolis Group Presents: Backup and Recovery

Linux, unlike many other Unix environments, is actually very easy to recover after a system failure or other disaster - IF you have appropriate backups and boot media and a disaster recovery plan. By defining system backups appropriately, ensuring that you have a full listing of the necessary hardware (in case you have to replace the entire system), having a manual operation plan while the recovery is occurring, and keeping boot media and system backups offsite, everyone - from the smallest business to the largest corporation can easily turn a system disaster into an non-event. The presentation examines various recovery scenarios and builds a sample disaster recovery plan centered around Linux
-Video by Renu Bora

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Patrick Mochel Presents: All About Driverfs

Patrick Mochel is the primary designer and author of both the driverfs system and the new device model in the ongoing 2.5 kernel development series. He will elaborate on the need of the new device driver model with emphasis on the accompanying driverfs implementation and its benefits.
-Video by Renu Bora

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Southern California Linux Expo: Panel Discussion

Panel discussion about Linux with Marc Hamilton of Sun Microsystems, Jay Clark of MSC Linux, Daniel Morales of Mandrake, and a representative of Debian Linux.

[Video] [Bio - Marc Hamilton] [Bio - Jay Clark] [Bio - Daniel Morales]