The next Annual Swiss Unix Conference is set for September 2-4,
2004 at the Technopark in Zurich. Three days of technical
sessions will cover various fields related to UNIX.
Note: This announcement was sent to all conference attendees
of 2003, you will automatically drop out of this list if
you don't attend in 2004.
Operating Systems:
o Keynote: History of Linux - Theodore Ts'o
o Documentation / CodingStyle and Beyond - Greg-KH
o Linux Power Management - Patrick Mochel
o NetBSD Status Report Fall 2004 - Hubert Feyrer
o Old mistakes repeated (but you do get the source code now)
- Poul-Henning Kamp
o Resource Management in Linux using CKRM - Rik van Riel
o The Linux Standard Base: Solving the Cross-Distribution
Compatibility Challenge - Theodore Ts'o
o The sysfs Filesystem - Patrick Mochel
o udev, a way to manage /dev from userspace - Greg-KH
Free Software:
o Keynote: Quality Issues in Free Software Projects
- Martin Michlmayr
o The Legal 101 for Open Source Contributors and Users
- David Rosenthal
o Debian - Contributing to the Project - Martin Michlmayr
o Writing Portable Multimedia Applications - Samuel Hocevar
o Google in Zurich - Narayanan Shivakumar, Google
Networking:
o A secure BGP Implemementation - Henning Brauer
o ADSL Provider Issues - Fredy Kuenzler
o Application Layer Fingerprinting - Hendrik Scholz
o FreeBSD Network Enhancements - Andre Oppermann
o High Availability using Keepalived - Alexandre Cassen
o HTB - detailed look into new QoS shaper - Martin Devera
o Installing IPv6 - Peter Bieringer (Hands-On)
o Linux Packet Classification Performance - Jamal Hadi Salim
o Performance and Enhancement Response Team (PERT)
- Chris Welti, SWITCH
o PF - Extended Introduction - Max Laier
o Status of IPv6 Implementations - Peter Bieringer
System Management:
o FreeBSD network performance tunig - Hendrik Scholz
o Fully automatic Linux installations - Thomas Lange
o Performance bottleneck detection and removal - Hendrik Scholz
o Spamikaze - a distributed anti-spam technology - Rik van Riel
o System Admin Training in the Virtual Unix Lab - Hubert Feyrer
Security:
o GBDE -- Spook strength disk encryption - Poul-Henning Kamp
o Rule Set Based Access Control (RSBAC) - Securing Linux from
the inside - Amon Ott
Multimedia:
o All About MPLayer - Alex Beregszaszi
o Multimedia On Unix: Past, Present, and Future - Mike Melanson
o Multimedia Trash And The Evolution of Full Motion Video
- Mike Melanson
Training Programme
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Half-Day:
o How to Recover From Hard Disk Disasters - Theodore Ts'o
o How to Use LDAP for User Management - Lukas Beeler
Full-Day:
o Contributing to Eclipse: understanding and writing plug-ins
- Kai-Uwe Metzler
Exhibition
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The exhibition will take place on all days and is open for
commercial and non-profit organizations. Contact office@sucon.ch
if you are interested in exhibiting.
Services
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o Free internet access via conference network for wired and
wireless clients.
o Rooms open to the public for spontaneous meetings, coding
sessions and discussions.
o Bulletin Boards with latest programme schedules and
job offers.
