The untold story of BPF

This talk will uncover for the first time the true origin of ‘Extended Berkley Packet Filter’. It would be fascinating for aspiring and expert open source developers to discover BPF’s path into one of the most sophisticated and challenging parts of software stack....

Trust and the Linux development model

In 2020, the University of Minnesota was found to have submitted a number of hypocrite commits to the Linux kernel development community in an attempt to prove that the kernel development model was insecure. Because of this, the University was banned from future...

Make Linux developers fix your kernel bug

Pssst! Don’t tell anyone, but there is a rule that forces Linux developers to fix certain kind of kernel bugs. This is pretty strictly enforced by Linux creator and lead-developer Linus Torvalds himself, who occasionally even steps up to fix such problems himself. You...