Soft Reboot Talk by Luca Boccassi. This talk is about a new systemd feature. Soft reboot. Targeted towards performance, service interruption. Service downtime should be minimized. This should pair nicely with kernel ’live patching'. For the kernel ’nothing at all is happening’. However, for userspace it is a full shutdown/reboot. With a File Descriptor Store applications can buffer connections to keep them alive while the system goes for a soft-reboot.

Using chroots in a single Linux Container as an alternative to docker-compose Talk by Aiden McClelland (details linked in the Reference section below). The talk is centered around StartOS. An operating system designed to enable non-technical users to self-host open source software. The OS hosts this via containers. With the base philosophy ‘one container = one service/app’. This makes managing IP addresses easier, and managing resources easier. The OS uses LXC to manage the containers.

Where have the woman of tech history gone First talk of this year’s FOSDEM (not counting the opening talk). Talk by Laura Durieux (see the link at the References at the bottom of the page for more details). The talk started with the question why women were underrepresented in the syllabus. This lead to the question why there is a focus on men, and who decides what makes it to the syllabus.

This is the third year in a row that we are going to FOSDEM. Each year it was blast, and hopfully this one will be too. Of course, the event starts with many nice Belgium beers. Looking forward to that.The talks on saturday and sunday which I will most likely go to are: The Veripeditus AR Game Framework, by Dominik George / Eike Jesinghaus Recently I have formed an intrest in Virtual Reality.