SouthEast Linux Fest 2024

A high-intensity tour of (at least) 100 tips for the command-line, bash, Unix and GNU/Linux itself. Hear something useful every 30 seconds! If 30 seconds is enough for you to internalize everything, this talk is guaranteed to make you a sysadmin within the 50-minute timeslot.

CEO of System76 will be giving a demo of the new Cosmic DE.

This is a free area welcome to all and will be open during the whole even. The Lan area will feature table space with power and wired network drop. There will also be a table for test out your lock picking skills.

An overview and comparison of the current most popular mesh VPN options like Tailscale, Zerotier, and Netbird, and how to use them to connect your computers and networks together.

Crash Course to Operating System basics to prepare for this weekend

Matrix is a new ecosystem that is rapidly maturing. From personal messaging, corporate chat, or emergency alert systems, Matrix is at the core.

A close up look at SLE Micro, the SUSE distro built to run containers.

The difference between a company project and a homelab project is the company project gets a team to support it when it becomes sewage. So let's talk about preserving your time when you can't hire a team for your house IT.

How OpenShift Virt can help you manage your VMs in the same manner as your containers

Grafana Loki 3.0, a popular OSS log management solution, showcasing its evolution, scalability improvements, and enhanced support for OpenTelemetry (OTEL).

Do you run a Linux Home Server? Do you want to?

A look back and a (small) celebration of the first Rocky Linux version and final 8.10 point release from the perspective of the project's lead release engineer.

Join me for a tour through the science behind preparing and cooking food.

A look inside what it takes to run and support Linux in regulated environments. FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, and other sectors where security and compliance are important factors.

This one's for self-hosters navigating public ingress alternatives. We'll survey the gratis proxy providers and a libre entrant. We'll wrap up with some relevant examples for choosing between running a tunneling agent vs. going agent-less by patching the source to leverage a tunneling library.

A deep dive demystification of "Kubernetes". The underpinning technologies that make the buzzword technologies actually work. Sane, practical patterns. Real-world implementations. Cost-effective development and skill building environments.

I can talk for hours, best practices & what not to do, cloud-init customization, RockyLinux or on Azure, Microsoft Azure Linux ..., Migrating on-prem

Home automation is an elusive technology — often desired, rarely achieved. This talk explores a successful ten-year home automation deployment, outlining the challenges that derail many attempts. It will cover technology choices, programing basics, and a dozen successful applications.

Rocky Linux's Special Interest Groups (SIGs) make up the lifeblood of the community of people that like to run Rocky on everything from Raspberry PIs to Supercomputers. Join us for an overview of all our SIGs and information to get involved!

Whether you're an expert in your field or simply have a unique perspective to offer, starting your own podcast can be both rewarding and fun.

I'm building a business that promotes using open technologies, and I'm building it on top of FOSS solutions wherever possible. Join me to learn how I'm doing it, which solutions I'm using, and what I've learned along the way.

Using a spreadsheet for IP management? Trying to track rack usage with a stale diagram? Keeping circuit information in interface descriptions? Bring conformity and clarity to your life with Netbox!

Let us write data to the cheapest-per-terabyte medium! For beginners in the Linear Tape Open space, by an experienced beginner.

Hardware security tokens from vendors such as Nitrokey and Yubico, are the single most effective mechanism to protect against cybersecurity breaches. In this session we discuss best practices on deployment and usage including use as a passkey, ssh, OpenPGP, passwords, disk encryption, and computer login.

Life is short and the art is long. How should you choose the next programming language to invest time in? Choosing well requires some understanding of how we got here.

Ceph is an established storage solution with a reputation for scalability and high availability, with pitfalls that need to be considered when running Ceph at small scale.

I will introduce Ceph, its benefits, how to go about adopting it in the homelab using Rook, and its unique architecture.

Investigate producing food, energy and community on and around your property utilizing Permacultural design principles and open source tools.

Do you need a rack or big iron or can you do home lab'ing with small board computers. Dicuss will be the pros and cons of both.

Managing a Jenkins controller can be complex and time-consuming. In this presentation, we will discuss best practices for managing a Jenkins controller.

Python has excellent abstractions and tooling. What if you could use this popular, general-purpose programming language for infrastructure? How to

• Terraform: incrementally migrate from Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL) to Python
• Jinja: format templates in Python nicely, for Ansible, Airflow, and beyond
• Ansible: write playbooks in Python instead of YAML

This is the prepared dinner for all Speakers at South East Linux Fest 2024.

It's a party... and its on a Friday Night... that would make it a... Friday Night Party

Meet outside hotel front lobby at 7:30 PM to arrange carpools over to Blackstone Shooting Sports. Once at Blackstone, complete the range safety course and make any rentals/purchases you would like. We will provide targets, and a shared "fun gun" with a clip of ammo for everyone.

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A historical, military-operational, and intelligence briefing on what you need to know to understand the war news.

This is a free area welcome to all and will be open during the whole even. The Lan area will feature table space with power and wired network drop. There will also be a table for test out your lock picking skills.

Darktable is a FLOSS photo cataloging, editing and publishing tool. This will be a brief overview along with a demo of a functional workflow.

In the PostgreSQL BoF, we will talk about all things Postgres; sharing strategies and answering your questions.

From release rebuilders and testers, to meme-lords and more, everyone has a skill to contribute in the Rocky Linux community. Resistance is futile. Make your first commit today!

Systemd is ubiquitous on Linux for managing services. Unfortunately, properly securing these services is much less common despite excellent tooling for assessment, securing, and logging. We'll show a concrete example, using nginx, to properly secure a service.

Come discuss Free Libre, and Open Source in chemistry, biology, bioinformatics, genetics, medicine, and related fields.

Creative urges mixing analog wax, sound and open source technology

Compliance in cloud environments can be easier but you have to be flexible. Join us as we look at cloud analogs for Linux VMs to lean into our providers but be able to run all of our handy shell commands for workloads.

Can your MySQL server attack YOU? Can a hacker execute a code on your laptop if you will simply login to a hacked MySQL database server? Is it even possible? Our presentation will unveil a novel attack vector, where MySQL database clients become the unsuspecting targets of an attack chain.

Dive into the eclectic world of non-standard keyboards where you can hack, solder and type your way to a happier input device.

In this presentation, we'll address common errors in measuring Linux performance. Are you relying on LoadAvg to gauge CPU load or Disk Utilization for disk status? We'll delve into these and other often-misinterpreted metrics, offering improved measurement approaches for enhanced Linux performance assessment.

Get a free head shot and learn how to use Darktable. A companion workshop for the Darktable presentation.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning are intertwined capabilities that attempt to solve problems that defy traditional computational solutions — problems include fraud detection, voice recognition, and search result recommendations.

XMPP is more than a light and decentralized messaging protocol: Using "PubSub", one can transform it into a functional post-based social media. Clients like Movim use this to create entirely decentralized social media services.

Looking at an overbuilt static site generator from source code to deployment.

One seldom sets out to write a 500-line bash script, but they can grow that large over time. As a follow-up to my previous bulletproof bash talks, I'd like to share some tips, idioms, and tools to help cope with scripts of any size.

Reading has never been easier. We are living in a golden age of information access, and software tools like Calibre, a FOSS digital library, combined with online archives make this a great time to become an avid reader.

This talk will give an overview of generative AI on linux, what type of hardware is needed, what software is needed, and what you can expect.

Uncover statistical truths behind xkcd comics, all while learning the correct statistical methods to resolve the issues in the webcomic strips

Cryptography keeps Alice and Bob’s conversations private from nosy Eve but also much more. In this talk you will learn about the history, fundamental principles, and uses of cryptography.

This talk will give an overview of generative AI on linux, what type of hardware is needed, what software is needed, and what you can expect.

This talk explores troubleshooting complex systems with hundreds or thousands of services. It addresses key questions on necessary service information and dashboard structuring for rapid comprehension. Effective utilization of observability signals like metrics, logs, traces, and profiles is discussed, along with automation strategies for root cause analysis.

Solar Cycle 25 is approaching it's peak in 2024-25. Along with more sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CME) events occur more often. This is a review of the impact solar weather has on Earth.

Kubernetes (K8s) is not new, but it may be new to you. We'll learn how to set up and operate a successful K8s cluster on a local machine, view your cluster, inventory what's running, and dig down into running software when things go wrong.

Last year, we covered how to improve gaming performance. In this talk, recap last years discussion, while we also cover improvements in performance since the past year, and also learn about tools to make it quicker and easier to get gaming!

Accessing LLMs through cloud services can be expensive and pose challenges related to data privacy and latency. To address these issues, Ollama is an open-source
engine designed to help users get up and running with large language models locally.

Keeping a mall running while ripping out all of it's infrastructure and replacing it with free and open source alternatives.

This workshop delves into the application of Flutter, a popular cross-platform development framework, for crafting native desktop applications specifically for the Linux platform. Participants with a foundational understanding of Flutter will gain practical experience and insights into building performant and visually appealing Linux applications.

Alerting is hard, most people get it wrong. Let's talk about actionable alerting

An empowering session on fostering open source stewardship. Discuss actionable strategies to support the community through time, talent, or treasure. Learn effective methods for giving back and inspiring others to contribute. Together, let's sustain the spirit of open source!

Amazon, Apple, and Google all have some spin on it, But they are all highly guarded walled gardens that track you, trap you, and in the end hold you hostage. I found a FOSS one that even the other less geeky members of my living arrangement are actually okay with.

Observability is a very overloaded term. It's used in various places but the definition is not very precise from an SRE perspective

"Open Source" extends beyond licensing. This talk explores crucial project elements for holistic adoption. Assessing factors like binary availability, documentation, governance, and community dynamics reveals a project's true open-source essence. Learn key criteria ensuring long-term adoption beyond mere licensing considerations.

Evangelism is borderline useless to annoying for most non-FLOSS using people. There are better ways to promote Linux and FLOSS that don't come off as bothersome or induce eye rolling.

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JT and Jeff will be installing ancient versions of Linux on old hardware.

It's a party... and its on a Saturday Night... that would make it a... Saturday Night Party

Let’s explore how to effectively communicate the value of FOSS to non-technical audiences. Topics include dispelling misconceptions, highlighting user benefits, avoiding pitfalls, and promoting the ethos of giving back. Come learn to advocate for open source beyond technical circles.

History of Ham radio from 1900 -2014, how Amateur radio influence the Broadcast television and radio we have today

My home installation of nextcloud. How I access it and use it to keep my data private.

India has the world's largest biometric identification system, Aadhaar, encompassing virtually every resident and every financial transaction. This talk describes the Aadhaar program and how it uses open source software to scale to 1.2 billion people and millions of transactions per day.

This is a free area welcome to all and will be open during the whole even. The Lan area will feature table space with power and wired network drop. There will also be a table for test out your lock picking skills.

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery are lovely concepts. Make the computer do the work! So why do all the solutions... suck? And in what ways do they suck?

A deep-dive into the fundamentals of concurrency on weakly-ordered memory architectures, building toward implementation of some basic lock-free data structures and their application toward very-low-latency inter-process communication.

Interested in permaculture design? Explore free & open information sharing, traditional agricultural methods and the technologies we use to monitor production, yields, energy usage and tooling.

System observability is crucial for issue resolution but demands significant time and resources. This talk focuses on leveraging eBPF to gather telemetry data like metrics, logs, and traces. We'll also explore tracking container activities and using telemetry for troubleshooting effectively.

eBPF is a robust, efficient and safe method for running compiled or interpreted programs in kernel space.
This talk will show how eBPF programs can be used with osquery event system to send data to a security information and event management (SIEM) data lake for processing.

Understanding CPU time shortages isn't simple. Conventional metrics like CPU usage or Load Average may not suffice. Few realize the Linux kernel tracks task wait times for kernel resources. This talk delves into Linux kernel metrics unveiling CPU time shortages, essential for managing application latency.

The optimizer is the "brain" of the database, interpreting SQL queries and determining the fastest method of execution. This talk uses the explain command to show how the optimizer interprets queries and determines optimal execution.

All build engines are quicksand; the bigger more and elaborate ones suck more. Here's how to climb out.

This is the closing Session of SouthEast LinuxFest 2024, this will officially end the event.