Neal Gompa

This session will review of the latest changes made to pagure as well as give some hints about its roadmap.

This talk presents what Datto leverages from Fedora, how Datto uses it, and how we are becoming involved in Fedora, and other communities.

This talk is the video counterpart to the Datto Engineering Blog post from 2019.

Delivering and deployment of software is hard. Continuously doing so while dealing with ever-changing requirements and scenarios in a secure and reproducible way? Even harder!

For most people, it becomes very difficult to do fully structured, reliable, and yet flexible build and deployment processes that can scale to dozens of Linux distribution releases. But with the Open Build Service, it all becomes possible in a reasonably manageable fashion!

A new lightweight and powerful Git-centered forge, now in openSUSE!

Pagure is a new, full-featured Git repository service for the web, written in Python. It is similar to other popular Git-based forges, allowing developers and contributors to share and collaborate on code and content. It also has some unique features not found in any other Git forge providing the basis for decentralized, federated software code hosting and development.

It's fully free and open source software, and… Show more

A new lightweight and powerful Git-centered forge, now in openSUSE!

Pagure is a new, full-featured Git repository service for the web, written in Python. It is similar to other popular Git-based forges, allowing developers and contributors to share and collaborate on code and content. It also has some unique features not found in any other Git forge providing the basis for decentralized, federated software code hosting and development.

It's fully free and open source software, and it's included in openSUSE Leap and openSUSE Tumbleweed! Show less

A comparison of the two major RPM package managers

In one corner, we have Zypper: the successor to the motley of package management options from Ximian and SuSE. Created after the merger of the Ximian and YaST package manager teams, it was a pioneer in using the SAT solver for package management and proved that it worked well at scale in a large and popular Linux distribution platform (SUSE Linux). It spawned the development of libsatsolver, which became libsolv. Considered by many to be… Show more

A comparison of the two major RPM package managers

In one corner, we have Zypper: the successor to the motley of package management options from Ximian and SuSE. Created after the merger of the Ximian and YaST package manager teams, it was a pioneer in using the SAT solver for package management and proved that it worked well at scale in a large and popular Linux distribution platform (SUSE Linux). It spawned the development of libsatsolver, which became libsolv. Considered by many to be the most advanced and fastest package manager, it is created a class of package managers all on its own. It is used in openSUSE, but is also available in Fedora and other RPM-based Linux distributions.

In the other corner, we have DNF: the anointed successor to YUM (Yellowdog Updater, Modified). DNF (Dandified YUM) was forked from YUM to rework the internals to leverage libsolv and offer a saner, more maintainable API. Forged from the blood, sweat, and tears of many package manager developers from Red Hat and others, DNF is built with the lessons in mind from the last decade of software and systems management experiences. A new up and comer, it is used in Fedora, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Yocto, and others. It is also available in openSUSE.

How do these two package managers compare? Are they more similar than different? Has DNF made YUM no longer a trash heap? Does ZYpp still rule the roost? This talk explores both package managers and compares them from a technical, usability, and ecosystem perspective. Who knows? Perhaps there are lessons to still be learned for evolving both package managers. Show less

In recent years the openSUSE community has significantly evolved the project's offerings, changing from being focused on producing a single community Linux distribution, to now building an entire family of tools including openQA, Uyuni, Open Build Service, KIWI, and a trio of Linux distributions, openSUSE Leap, Tumbleweed, and Kubic. This extensive family of tools provides developers with a number of unique options for including in, or using to produce, their exciting projects.

This talk… Show more

In recent years the openSUSE community has significantly evolved the project's offerings, changing from being focused on producing a single community Linux distribution, to now building an entire family of tools including openQA, Uyuni, Open Build Service, KIWI, and a trio of Linux distributions, openSUSE Leap, Tumbleweed, and Kubic. This extensive family of tools provides developers with a number of unique options for including in, or using to produce, their exciting projects.

This talk will outline the openSUSE ecosystem, showcase a number of the Project's offerings, and detail a number of reasons why Developers choose openSUSE and their tools over the others available in both the Open Source and Proprietary worlds. Show less

In recent years, it has become increasingly important to develop software that minimizes security vulnerabilities. Memory management bugs are a common cause of these vulnerabilities. To that end, the Mozilla community has spent the last several years building the Rust language and ecosystem which focuses primarily on eliminating those bugs. And Rust is available in Fedora today, along with a few applications in Fedora 27 and higher, as described in this article.

Explainer article on LTE technologies. First written in 2011, revised in 2013 and 2015.

Article describing backstory and context of why T-Mobile will deploy LTE