HPCSW: LinuxBIOS · 27 November 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
High Performance Computer Science Week spans between 31st March and 5th April next year. The last two days will include a LinuxBIOS summit,
aLANtejo 07 · 14 October 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
aLANtejo is a yearly free software related event in Évora, Portugal. In 2005 I held a presentation about MPlayer.
Now the Portuguese Zend Free Software Contest is held as a part of the event and I have been awarded to be a part of the Jury. I have been lucky this year :)
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Les Trophées du Libre · 2 October 2007 by Alex Beregszaszi
Is an international free software contest held in France.
I had been offered a place in the multimedia category of the Jury. The nomination phase is now over, over 25 projects have been submitted to my category.
The multimedia jury includes Sam Hocevar of VideoLAN (and now Debian) fame, also he created the WTFPL license ; Damien Sandras, author of GnomeMeeting/Ekiga; Øyvind Kolås from GIMP; Louis Desjardins contributed to Scribus, and Olivier Saraja to Blender.
Thanks to this page, I am aware that there is a Libre Graphics Meeting, last year organized by Louis.
Xen on Qemu on Xen · 25 November 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
The Emulation vs Virtualization seminar has been a success, we had 20 persons listening on site and the average network listener number has been said to be 60.
At the end of the seminar, we tried some bad ass crazy thing: to run a XenLinux inside Qemu, while Qemu is running on XenLinux. It worked.
The machine had a Vanderpool supporting cpu, and we used the domain0 for running Qemu in it. Qemu has been started in snapshot mode and the boot disk has been the raw device it was running on already. So the same system booted in Qemu. A domain1 Linux has been started successfully, sadly we hadnt much time then, so we failed to start up X perfectly – the VESA driver produced bad color patterns.
Anyway, it was a great success.
You can listen to it at the NIIF video on demand archive (but only in Hungarian).
IPSZILON: Emulation vs virtualization · 19 November 2006 by Alex Beregszaszi
IPSZILON is a hungarian seminar organized by Miklos Pasztor and sponsored by NIIF, which is the institute managing (and building) the university backbone network.
Every now and then, specialist interested in open source or open standards are giving a four hour long presentation and workshop, which is streamed live also. The presentations cover mostly open source technologies, such as GIMP, Postfix, OpenOffice and OpenBSD (hi Robert!).
On Tuesday we will explain the differences between emulation and virtualization together with Ferenc Szalai, who is a grid computing fame in Hungary.
Two links for the hungarian readers:
- the news entry of the seminar
- the streaming site