| Saturday Feb 25th 2006 |
| 13:00-14:00 openSUSE--Motivation, Goals, and Opportunities |
Why did Novell start the openSUSE project? What is different from other projects? Get a short overview of our motivations and plans for the future of the openSUSE project as well as tell us your opinions and discuss with us where openSUSE can go in the future
Sonja Krause-Harder, Michael Loeffler |
| 14:00-15:00 Introducing the openSUSE Build Service |
Learn how the openSUSE Build Service works and helps you build packages. Get an overview of the tools and functionalities that the openSUSE Build Service offers.
Adrian Schroeter, Cornelius Schumacher, Andreas Bauer |
| 15:00-16:00 SUSE Linux Power Management--One Step Ahead! |
Power management for SUSE Linux. Suspending the whole system was the first step. Now it is time for runtime power management to paralyze devices that shorten your battery life time on the road.
Timo Hoenig, Holger Macht |
| 16:00-17:00 SUSE Linux 10.2--Quo vadis? |
What's new and cool in SUSE Linux 10.1? What are the features and highlights? We answer these questions and discuss goals and focuses for SUSE Linux 10.2 and beyond.
Michael Loeffler, Christoph Thiel |
| 17:00-17:30 Q & A |
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| Sunday Feb 26th 2006 |
| 10:00-11:00 Packaging Tutorial--The Bricks We Build With |
The journey from a spec file to a distribution. An introduction to RPM packaging for openSUSE and the tasks that come with it.
Hendrik Vogelsang, Marcus Rueckert |
| 11:00-12:00 Cross-Distribution Building with the openSUSE Build Service |
The openSUSE Build Service is not limited to build packages for SUSE Linux, but offers the possibility to build a package for other distributions (such as Mandriva, Fedora, or even Debian). This talk presents methods to make packages built for multiple distributions.
Michael Schroeder |
| 12:00-12:30 "Speed Talks" (various topics) |
This slot is reserved to present various topics in 5-10 minute talks.
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| 12:30-14:00 Writing Your Own YaST Module in a Few Hours |
Powerful configuration options are what set many OS projects apart from commercial software. Why not go all the way and offer an easy-to-use GUI for configuration--on top of existing configuration files? YaST provides a powerful framework to do just that and it is simple and efficient enough to write your own YaST module.
Stefan Hundhammer |
| 14:00 - 15:00 The SUSE Security Process |
This lecture gives an introduction into the work of the SUSE Security Team. If you ever wanted to know how SUSE approaches releasing security updates or looking at new security critical packages, this is the place to listen and ask questions.
Marcus Meissner |
| 15:00-16:00 SUSE Linux LiveCD Tutorial |
This tutorial introduces the SUSE Linux LiveCD script, which transforms a SUSE Linux installation source into a CD or DVD image that hosts a live version of SUSE Linux, which can be used without the need to install it onto a hard disk first.
Steffen Winterfeldt |
| 16:00-17:30 Q & A |
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