The Libre Software Meeting (LSM) is a yearly event that has been organized since the year 2000 by the French Free Software Community. LSM will take place this year in Dijon, from July 5th to July 9th. It gathers people from various regions of the world, and comprises both technical conferences where Free Software developers meet and discuss, and societal talks about ethical and legal issues relevant to the Free Software Movement. Access to the conference is free (as in "free speech") and free (as in "free beer"). More information is available from the LSM website:
http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/ The "Operating System Design and Implementation" topic this year will gather a wide range of developers and researchers in this area. A full program is available online: http://libresoftwaremeeting.org/sections/conference/noyau_et_systeme/ http://thomas.enix.org/pub/rmll2005/rmll2005-os-program-en.pdf The topics that will be discussed include: o the design of flexible OSes, namely the GNU Hurd (by Gaël le Mignot), Plan 9 (by Charles Forsyth) and the THINK framework (by Juraj Polakovic); o improving OS security by design, in EROS (by Jonathan Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University) and in the port of the GNU Hurd to the L4 microkernel (by Marcus Brinkmann); o dependability, using open proofs in Coyotos (by Jonathan Shapiro) or through device driver isolation (by Joshua LeVasseur, Universität Karlsruhe); o resource management, in particular a novel approach for the GNU Hurd on L4 (by Neal Walfield), an evaluation of the Linux memory management subsystem (by Mel Gorman), and the "scheduler activation" abstraction as a foundation for user-level parallelism (by Vincent Danjean); o virtualization with User-Mode-Linux (by Jeff Dike); o distributed OSes, namely Kerrighed (by Christine Morin, Renaud Lottiaux and Pascal Gallard) and openMosix (by Moshe Bar); o the use of high-level and special-purpose programming languages in OSes (by Julia Lawall, Ewout Prangsma, Frode Vatvedt Fjeld, Jérémy Bobbio and Xavier Grave); o the implementation of an OS step-by-step (by David Decotigny and Thomas Petazzoni). Proceedings will be available online after the conference. For more information, please email us at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
