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NewsForge: Ottawa Linux Symposium Coverage

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 27, 2004

OLS Day 3: Failed Experiments, Linux-Tiny, and the Linux
Standard Base

“More news from the OLS by our man on the ground, David Graham.
Graham reports that Day 3 began with a presentation by Intel’s John
Ronciak and Jesse Brandeburg on writing Linux kernel drivers for
gigabit and ten gigabit network interface cards…”

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Ottawa Linux Symposium Day 4: Andrew Morton’s Keynote
Address

“The last day started with a session by Stuart Anderson on the
Linux Standard Base’s testing tools.

“As discussed on the 3rd day of OLS, LSB has a set of required
base design for all flavours of Linux to allow all independent
software vendors to run on top of any Linux, regardless of
distribution, provided it is in compliance with the LSB’s
standards. In order to test compliance, the LSB releases software
and tools…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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