Quick FOSDEM update
Most of you reading this probably know of FOSDEM. For anyone that does not it's a yearly conference event focusing on Open source.
I've heard of it and watched some talks from it over the years. This year so far I've only watched a couple. Plan on watching more once the archive goes up. I'll update this post with links to the replays for the ones I'm going to mention here.
Today i happen to catch FreeBSD Around the World! (Recording is up) Which was a very informative talk about the history of FreeBSD. It was very interesting to see where FreeBSD originated. I had an idea that it was closly related to original Unix but did not know just how close. Was also interesting to find out that Netflix uses FreeBSD as the base for the operating system they use on all there nodes/servers. They had a talk about it last year at FOSDEM. Worth a watch as well.
Next came the talk i was most looking forward to Regaining control of your smartphone with postmarketOS and Maemo Leste. (Edit Feb4th:Recording is up)Here one of the developers of postmarketOS and one from Maemo Leste talked about the status and future of linux on phones and the drive to get devices running mainline linux. They talked about the PinePhone and the Librem 5 and how these 2 devices are helping to really kick-start that effort. Still all in very early stages but most things are working/coming along at great pace.
I'll update this post with links to the videos once they are up. I will also probably follow up with a second post on FOSDEM once i get a chance to watch more of the presentations.
That's all for now.
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Until next time. Stay safe!