Monsters, Ghosts, and Bugs: How to Choose a Kernel
Most users and developers dont think too closely about what kernel is running, yet the kernel is a vital piece of software. There are many choices of what kernel to run, from a well-tested enterprise …
| Talk Title | Monsters, Ghosts, and Bugs: How to Choose a Kernel |
| Speakers | Laura Abbott (Fedora Kernel Engineer, Red Hat) |
| Conference | Open Source Summit + ELC North America |
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| Location | San Diego, CA, USA |
| Date | Aug 19-23, 2019 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Most users and developers don’t think too closely about what kernel is running, yet the kernel is a vital piece of software. There are many choices of what kernel to run, from a well-tested enterprise kernel to forward-looking community distributions to running your own compiled version. Each of these options has a use case and the choice of the kernel can have a big impact on your system. So how do you choose? The focus of this talk is the many ways a kernel can be maintained and what it means for consumers of that kernel. Emphasis will be given to the trade-offs of features vs. security vs. ease of management and mistakes you can make when maintaining a kernel.
