Accepted Sessions
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Building software-based NAS using Gluster (Red Hat Storage Software Appliance) Speaker: Thomas Cameron Red Hat Storage Software Appliance (Gluster) is a software-based, scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) appliance. It uses inexpensive internal or direct-attached (e.g. JBOD) storage and pools... |
Beginner |
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Chef Hackathon Speaker: Opscode instructors will be presenting a free morning of introductory Chef training, transitioning to an afternoon Hack Day for Chef users of all skill levels. |
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Data Security and Privacy in the Cloud Speaker: Dustin Kirkland Update: Slides posted at http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2012/08/texas-linux-fest-2012-presentatio... |
Advanced |
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Demoggification Speaker: John Rose Since the mid 1990s the Useless Use of Cat Award has raised awareness of a class of shell script constructs that make some laugh and others cry. Demoggification is the process of removing useless... |
Intermediate |
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Demystifying and Debugging Boot Speaker: David Chiluk A large number of users treat everything that happens before the login screen as a black box. This shouldn't be the case. Too often new linux users give up on linux because something didn't "... |
Beginner |
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Dev/Ops, Continuous Deployment, APIs, Oh My! Speaker: Matt Tesauro As the world of system and application deployment continues to change, the sys admin and security community needs to change with it. With agile development, continuous deployment, the pace of... |
Intermediate |
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Get to know btrfs. Speaker: Carlos Alva This talk is to give an introduction of the new file system called btrfs given to the Open Source community by Oracle. Btrfs is focused on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration. |
Intermediate |
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Hackerspaces and free culture Speaker: Chris Hardee 10BitWorks, the San Antonio hackerspace, will present on what a hackerspace is, a little history on how 10BitWorks was formed and how it operates, how we depend on free culture, Linux, and open... |
Beginner |
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Hadoop as a Data Platform Speaker: Joey Jablonski Data is growing at increasing volume, variety and velocity.This data has created new challenges around storage, management, operations, understanding and insight. |
Intermediate |
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How to Create Your Own Cloud Speaker: Joe Brockmeier If you're wondering what all the fuss is about with Cloud Computing, the best way to understand is to run your own. Sounds complicated? It's not as bad as you think. |
Intermediate |
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Introduction to device trees Speaker: Timur Tabi A device tree is a data structure that describes the hardware in a system. |
Intermediate |
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Introduction to FreeNAS 8.3 Speaker: Dru Lavigne FreeNAS is an open source, network attached storage platform based on FreeBSD. This presentation will discuss its features, what's new in 8.3, and the roadmap moving forward. |
Intermediate |
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Introduction to PC-BSD 9 Speaker: Kris Moore The PC-BSD has grown and matured greatly over the past several years to become the most popular BSD based desktop operating system. PC-BSD is built upon the popular FreeBSD operating system, but... |
Beginner |
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Large Scale Visualizations in Linux Speaker: Paul Navratil As scientific computing moves through the petascale into the exascale, the datasets generated by simulations and instruments grow enormously. |
Intermediate |
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Learning on the go: Building a mobile lab Speaker: Jim Wildman With the mainstreaming of virtualization solutions and the abundance of virtualization hardware on laptops it is now possible to take a learning lab with you where ever you go. |
Beginner |
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Linux Audio: Pro-audio basics Speaker: Gabriel Beddingfield If you are interested in using Linux as a music production environment, but don't know where to start, this session is for you. |
Beginner |
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Monitoring with Zenoss Speaker: Are you sick of your current monitoring solution? Do you even have one deployed? Take a short trip down monitoring lane with the Zenoss team at the 2012 Texas Linux Fest. |
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Open ARM Hardware and Distribution Support Speaker: Seth Jennings In the last 3-4 years, some system-on-a-chip (SoC) manufactures have realized that there might be a place for open ARM hardware in the market. |
Intermediate |
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pfSense Speaker: Chris Buechler This session will cover all of the changes in the pfSense 2.1 release, primarily focusing on adding IPv6 support to your existing deployments. |
Intermediate |
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Practical KVM Automation Speaker: David Ashley While Linux KVM is useful for many activities for most small businesses or software development projects it is most useful when ivirtual machines are automated to perform either scheduled or ad... |
Intermediate |
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Reimagining the command line for the tablet age Speaker: Ramalingam Saravanan The command line interface has changed little over the last few decades, and yet continues to be used by power users, especially in the Linux world, because of its versatility. Although a picture... |
Beginner |
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Remote Biology: How I'm attempting to cure cancer with Open Source Software Speaker: Jacob Silva Studying genetic mutations is time consuming and labor intensive. |
Beginner |
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Security Worst Practices Speaker: Gary Smith Hardly a week goes by that I don’t get an email about some “security best practice” or the other. |
Intermediate |
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Simple DevOps Using Jenkins Speaker: Robert Ristroph This presentation will cover a simple setup of a Jenkins (it can even run on your laptop), and a set of scripts will be demonstrated that enable the following workflow: |
Advanced |
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System Resource Management using Linux Control Groups Speaker: Bob Kozdemba As interests and demands raise for larger and faster hardware to support ever-increasing workloads, so is the complexity of managing these servers and software components. |
Intermediate |
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Texas Linux Fest Attendee Reception (sponsored by Rackspace) Speaker: Ilan Rabinovitch Like to mix your fun and Open Source? Then you'll want to head to Dave & Busters (440 Crossroads Blvd, next to Norris Convention Center) on Saturday, August 4th from 7-11pm. |
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TexOS - The Texas Open Source Project Speaker: Brian Beck The Texas Open Source Project is working with local, non-profits in the San Angelo, Texas area to provide technology to students who don’t have access to it at home. |
Beginner |
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The Linux Kernel Debugging Techniques Speaker: Vaitheeshwar Ramachandran Kernel programming brings its own, unique debugging challenges. Kernel code cannot be easily executed under a debugger, nor can it be easily traced, because it is a set of functionalities not... |
Intermediate |
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Ubuntu on ARM Servers! Speaker: David Mandala Ubuntu on ARM has come a long way. Two years ago I presented here at Texas Linux Fest about Ubuntu on ARM, but who would have thought that we would in two short years progress to Enterprise ARM... |
Intermediate |
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Who Pulls the Strings? Integrating OpenNMS with Modern Configuration Management Speaker: Jeffrey Gehlbach This talk considers the two most common user stories for OpenNMS integration with modern, conventions-centric configuration management platforms. |
Intermediate |