Game of Trees Daemon: a Git repository server and client for OpenBSD and other systems - Talk at #FOSDEM 2023 by Stefan Sperling #Video https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/game_of_trees_daemon/
No-one would have believed it if we posted this yesterday, so today we are announcing that Eclipse #Temurin 21 and 22 are available as a GA headless release on #RISCV! #openjdk #java
https://adoptium.net/en-GB/blog/2024/04/eclipse-temurin-21-and-22-available-on-riscv/
Thanks to @ludovic_dev and others at RISE for getting us here 🙂
You can also install it via the @jbangdev tool. Set JBANG_DEFAULT_JAVA_VERSION=21 first to get the GA version
See also: "Lessons from porting" and the "managed runtimes" talks from #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2024 at https://video.fosdem.org/2024/aw1126/
Starting over: Rebooting the OS stack for fun and profit
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/26/starting_over_rebooting_the_os/
Making full effective use of new persistent memory means tearing up the rulebook
<- by me on @theregister – this is my 2021 #FOSDEM talk, cut down a bit and turned into an article.
A path out of bloat: A Linux built for VMs
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/linux_built_for_a_vm/
What Linux distros could learn from the inventor of the hypervisor
<- by me on @theregister 4th and final part of this year's #FOSDEM talk.
FOSDEM and FOSDEM PGDay 2024 Review
#PostgreSQL #PGDay #FOSDEM #Brussels #Belgium
https://andreas.scherbaum.la/post/2024-02-16_fosdem-and-fosdem-pgday-2024-review/
Ich hatte noch gar keinen #TrainThread zu meiner Reise zur #FOSDEM Anfang Februar gemacht, daher wollte ich das noch nachholen.
Ziel war, so zu fahren, wie früher der EuroCity Vauban, also Zürich-Luxemburg-Brüssel. Das ist nicht mehr ganz so einfach heutzutage. Es gab sechs Züge und fünf Tickets, eines davon musste mir die SNCF unbedingt per Post schicken.
Schritt eins: mit der SZU geht es im Morgengrauen nach Zürich HB.
Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/16/what_is_unix/
The lessons of yesteryear's OS are getting lost in translation
← by me on @theregister
This is part 2 of this year's #FOSDEM talk… it will (I hope!) make more sense in context with the rest.
@ingo_wichmann @ganonmaster @RichiH I'm part of the teams organizing #PGConfEU, #PGConfDE and #FOSDEMPGDay.
I disagree with "the more you pay per person", every finance budget we have for our conferences is the other way around. Given our conferences do not reach #FOSDEM size, but the higher the attendee numbers, the better the result. But that's also how we model the conferences.
@ganonmaster #FOSDEM long outgrew the available space. Unfortunately as long as they stay at the ULB this is not going to change. And any other location will not be for free.
@fosdem 2024 was once again a great opportunity to learn about #PostgreSQL and interact with the #Postgres #community. I also had the great pleasure to meet many fellow enthusiasts at the PostgreSQL Europe booth, where I was joined by friend and comrade-in-arms @tchorix and we took the opportunity to do an impromptu book signing for "PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook" which we co-authored 👉 https://packt.link/BmLOz
#conference #techbooks #fosdem #dba #databaseAdministration #sql
I just posted my new blog-posting about FOSDEM 2024.
#fosdem #2024 #fosdem2024 #PostgreSQL #community #brussles #belgium
Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/12/drowning_in_code/
The speedier computing cake is a lie... so we got software bloat instead
← by me on @theregister and the first of several parts adapted from my latest #FOSDEM talk
A very brief blog post with links to my 2 #FOSDEM talks, including the (previously unseen) slides and script.
I hope that those who unfortunately could not attend in person have the opportunity to watch some of the recorded content (I have a few I am keen to watch as well - so many good sessions!) as #FOSDEM once again demonstrated that European open source continues to be very strong.
It is not what we do at an event that adds the impact, it is what we do with what we have learned that matters and I have come away from #fosdem with a new list of jobs to do.
The plan is to do this within three months - the job list may grow as tasks get split out, but hopefully reduce as I move through them.
Work on this should never stop, but it felt like there was more diversity at #FOSDEM than a few years ago. Open source is software by the people for the people, so I am very glad that more people felt comfortable attending.
I spoke to so many people at the Mozilla stand and across FOSDEM - people who just want to thank Mozillians for the work we are doing and people I have very much wanted to meet in person for a long time. There was some really good feedback gathered that I hope we can use.
I am catching up a bit having been at #FOSDEM in Brussels last weekend. It was a really busy and positive event, with lots of people at both the #Mozilla and #Thunderbird stands, the Mozilla and Web Performance devrooms, and the cookie van.
I have a massive amount of appreciation for the volunteers behind FOSDEM. Your hard work and ingenuity was very awesome. It was very good to see a few of the volunteer jackets on the journey home being worn with well-deserved pride.
My collection of stickers, flyers and pencils I collected on #FOSDEM last weekend.
#fosdem #pgday #brussels #brüssel #weekend #wochenende #ferien #marriott #pgdayfosdem #opensource
The recording of my FOSDEM talk
"The Four Horsemen of Bad Rust Code"
is now online! ▶️🦀⚙️💡🐴
https://video.fosdem.org/2024/h1308/fosdem-2024-2434-the-four-horsemen-of-bad-rust-code.av1.webm
Feedback very welcome!
#rust #rustlang #fosdem #talk #programming
Now that we're all back and recovering from FOSDEM, we'd love to know two things: what were your favorite talks, and just as importantly, what were your favorite moments in between the talks? 🤔
(And no, those talks and moments don't have to be Thunderbird related! This is not a shameless ploy for attention, we promise. We'll be MUCH more obvious about those! 😜 💙 )
And just in case you wonder if I always wear my Red Hat. No. Not always. At #FOSDEM I bought the official #Debian Beanie which I now proudly wear too! #ElevatorFashionPic
#PostgreSQL Slonik and #Geocaching Signal playing a game of #Chess at the #FOSDEM PGDay venue in #Brussels. Everyone has fun!
The truly imressive thing about #FOSDEM is how the organisers go out of their way to create a time and place for people to meet, share and enjoy being amongst similarly thinking people. Since so many years. Staying true to that principle of being a catalyst. Not an influencer. Of staying in the background and make it all look so natural and easy. But I see and know about all the unbelievably hard work and logistics needed to pull it off. You. All. Are. Unsung. Heroes.
git config --global rerere.enabled true
I learned this at #FOSDEM. You too might want to set it.
I'm still a little surprised there weren't a higher proportion of #Mastodon addresses on the #FOSDEM slides. Still lots of Twitter ones, and there still seems to be plenty of people only having email or LinkedIn referenced on their slides too.
Each to their own - this is merely an observation based on the talks I attended 😀
Goodbye and Au Revoir Brussels and #FOSDEM!
It's always nice to be here, see old friends, meet new ones, enjoy the good food in the city. And of course now I'm at an age where I can participate more, and learn something in one of the many devrooms. Thanks for that as well!
Hopefully see you next year!
@cuddle@bsd.cafe already mentioned it on the opening talk and you see 90% starring on their phone. Please, stop it!
Bottom up rewrite.... #FOSDEM
Next, my travel mate @giomba and another Italian by the handle @giuliof gave a really interesting talk on their joint effort to reverse engineer the Sanco 8003, an obscure 8-bit platform.
#retrocomputing #fosdem
Great concept for the closing session #FOSDEM
#FOSDEM junior worked!!
#FOSDEM is over for me, the trip back begins. #TrainThread time!
I am going from Brussels to Zurich on the direct way, so of course we start with the Eurostar (Red) to Rotterdam Centraal. Wait what!?
It turns out the Eurostar Café has Duvel, so a little travel beer is in order.
Watching the “Integrating LLMs: Intelligence is tricky” talk on the #FOSDEM livestream (https://live.fosdem.org/watch/h1302). #Large Language Models #fosdem2024
Back in the community room.
Building Communities with Science! https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2599-building-communities-with-science-/ #FOSDEM
Waiting for the fries at #FOSDEM :)
You can develop your own plugins for MAMBO, to modify the binary code according to your wishes. You can register functions for all events, pre or post event.
The code of the function does not depend on the processor type, MAMBO provides a high-level view of the intstructions. (But you can also use specific RISC-V instructions.)
Demo with vim running on RISC-V, under the control of MAMBO so we can patch vim binary to count the number of branches (zero assembly language required).
Lessons from porting software to RISC-V at RISE by Ludovic Henry
Some programs have erroneous assumptions, which are true for x86 but not for every processor type.
https://landscape.riscv.org/
Now, retrocomputing at #FOSDEM.
First, The big adventure of little professor and its 4-bits handheld friends running TMS 1000 by Christophe Ponsard
(The little professor with the ridiculous moustache.)
It is Harvard, not Von Neumann (ROM and RAM are reachable on different buses).
The CPU was a Texas Instruments.
Processors of this time still allowed to decap and to scan the chip. (Do not try with modern processors.) Useful for retro-engineering and then emulating.
Then the museum built a Big Professor (3D-printed case, Arduino inside, running the emulator) so parents can experience nostalgia and kids play with a more recent machine.
I learn that there is a guy who wrote a Lisp compiler for the Gameboy so he can re-implement old games in Lisp.
Running DOS & Unix on an 8-bit Commodore by Michal Pleban
I wonder if it runs systemd and Gnome also.
OK, MS-DOS runs but most applications don't: they need a PC BIOS. So, the Commodore must be made PC-compatible.
Demo: Norton Commander (what else?) on FreeDOS.
#FOSDEM life goals: I demonstrated my Fedora Asahi Linux installation on the MacBook Air *to* the folks at the Fedora booth, and they seemed genuinely excited!
Almost out of stickers now... #FOSDEM
Slightly surprising to see the corporate Oracle slide template at #FOSDEM. This is an update on GRUB development by Daniel Kiper. Probably my last talk today.
The Good Governance Handbook: Enabling good OSS usage through OSPOs https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2685-the-good-governance-handbook-enabling-good-oss-usage-through-ospos/ #FOSDEM
Kickstarting an Open Source Culture: A Guide for Mentors https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2105-kickstarting-an-open-source-culture-a-guide-for-mentors/ #FOSDEM
