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Apr. 18, 2006

Sixteen videos on topics of interest to embedded Linux developers are now available online. The videos, from last week's Consumer Electronics Linux Forum conference, are available on the website of Free-Electrons, an embedded Linux training and consulting company in the south of France.

The videos were shot by Free-Electrons founder Michael Opdenacker (pictured above), who attended the CELF conference. They are encoded using royalty-free Ogg-Theora codecs, and like other material available from Free Electrons, are published with the agreement of the speakers under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 2.5 license.

The videos include:

Keynote -- by Tim Bird, a Sony senior software engineer who also serves as executive director of CELF
Usability of user-space device drivers -- by a speaker from Renesas
What's new with Busybox -- by BusyBox maintainer Rob Landley, of TimeSys
Topics in embedded power management -- by Todd Poynor of MontaVista
CE Linux Forum open test lab -- by Matt Locke of Nomad Global Solutions
Power management panel -- moderated by Mark Gross of Intel
Panel: tips for mainlining, from the experts -- moderated by Tim Bird, with Greg K.H., Greg Ungerer, and Matt Mackall
MIPS BOF -- by Arvind Kumar of MIPS
uClinux -- by Greg Ungerer of SnapGear
Examining Linux kernel size -- by Munehiro Ikeda of NEC
Integrating DirectFB into a UHAPI Platform -- by Denis Kropp of directfb.org
Linux Trace Toolkit next generation -- by Mathieu Desnoyers of the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
MythTV on Philips Nexperia PNX8550 -- by Klaas de Waal of Philips
Visualizing resource usage during initialization of embedded systems (embootchart) -- by Matthew Klahn of Motorola
State of Linux Real-time BOF -- by Manas Saksena of TimeSys
Closing activity: embedded Linux quiz -- by Tim Bird of Sony

Availability

The CELF conference videos are available via http or bit torrent, from Free-Electrons's Conference Video download page.

Free-Electrons previously published a 62-page presentation on CELF's Linux kernel optimizations for speed, size, RAM, power, and/or hardware cost. It also published a dozen embedded-oriented videos from last fall's Free and Open Source Developer's Meeting (FOSDEM).

LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum also attended the CELF conference, and brought back a few photos, along with several dozen slides from a conference session showcasing technical achievements.

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