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Embedded 4xx PowerPC Linux Kernel maintainer Josh Boyer discusses activity in the embedded linux space.

Additional Information

• Embedded Linux kernel mailing list at http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-embedded
• Embedded and powerpc developers lists at http://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo
• Embedded PowerPC info at http://penguinppc.org/embedded/

Chris gives an intro to WBEM, sblim and other system management tools for Linux and other OSes.

Additional Information

• SBLIM home page at http://sblim.wiki.sourceforge.net
• Open Pegasus at http://openpegasus.org
• WBEM from Python at http:://pywbem.sourceforge.net
• WS-MAN information at http://openwsman.org

The Enterprise Cryptographic File System is discussed with Mike Halcrow.

Additional Information

• eCryptFS home page at http://ecryptfs.sourceforge.net/
• LinuxJournal article at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9400

IBM contributions to the recently released Red Hat Enterprise 5.2 are discussed with Emily Ratliff.

Additional Information

• Redhat press release at http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/05/21/red-hat-enterprise-linux-52/
• lwn.net article at http://lwn.net/Articles/283564/

We’ll have a series of episodes over the summer about WBEM, the Java CIM client, sfcb/sfcc and CMPI providers. What questions would you like to pose on these topics? Please post them in the comments below.

Thanks much in advance for your participation!

OpenSim is an open source implementation of Linden Lab’s Second Life. Hear all about it with one of the developers, Sean Dague.

Additional Information

OpenSim project at http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page

Josh Boyer is the embedded PowerPC linux kernel maintainer. What questions would you like to pose to him? Please post them in the comments below.

Now obviously we won’t be able to answer all questions that might be posted. Thanks much in advance for your participation!

Thanks to all of you that are listening to the show. We hope you are getting value out of what we have to offer.

One thing that we’re missing and I’m starting today is to give you the listener the opportunity to get involved. So for upcoming shows, I’ll make a posting here to let you know the subject matter of a future show and you the community can post your questions that you’d like to most know about the topic.

Look forward to hearing from you and posing your question to the expert!

George Wilson is interviewed about the Labeled Security Protection Profile and the Multi-Level Security projects on Linux.

Additional Information

• General Security Textbook that Describes MLS - Ross Anderson, Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, Wiley, January 22, 2001, http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html
• Formal Multi-Level Security Definition - D. Elliott Bell and Leonard J. La Padula, Secure Computer Systems: Unified Exposition and MULTICS Interpretation, Technical Report MTR-2997 Rev. 1, MITRE, 1976, http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/history/bell76.pdf
• NSA Rational for Mandatory Access Control - Loscocco, Peter, et al., “The Inevitability of Failure: The Flawed Assumption of Security in Modern Computing Environments”, Proceedings of the 21st National Information Systems Security Conference, October 1998, http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/papers/inevitability/
• SE Linux Textbook - Mayer, Frank, et al., SELinux by Example, Prentice Hall, July 2007, http://www.tresys.com/selinux/selinux-book.html
• Common Criteria Validated Product Lists
  • Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, Zertifizierungsreporte,Website, http://www.bsi.bund.de/zertifiz/zert/report.htm
  • National Information Assurance Partnership, Validated Products List, Website, http://www.niap-ccevs.org/cc-scheme/vpl/
• Common Criteria Protection Profiles
  • National Institute for Standards and Technology, Role Based Access Control Protection Profile, Version 1.0, July 1998, http://niap-ccevs.org/cc-scheme/pp/archived/pp_rbac_v1.0.pdf
  • National Security Agency, Controlled Access Protection Profile, Version 1.d, October 1999, http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/public/files/ppfiles/capp.pdf
  • National Security Agency, Labeled Security Protection Profile, Version 1.b, October 1999, http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/public/files/ppfiles/lspp.pdf
• NSA Security Enhanced Linux Website - http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/
• RHEL 5 LSPP FTP Site - ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/eal/EAL4_RHEL5/IBM/
• RHEL 5 LSPP Evaluated Configuration Guide - IBM, LSPP EAL4 Evaluated Configuration Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM hardware, May 2007, Website, http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/linux/RHEL-LSPP-EAL4-IBM-Configuration-Guide.pdf

A discussion about the IBM LTC efforts to enable and provide optimizations for Power and PowerPC based hardware.

Additional Information

• Power Hardware support at http://www-03.ibm.com/linux/prod_svc.html
• powerpc cpu add on for glibc at http://penguinppc.org/dev/glibc/glibc-powerpc-cpu-addon.html
• oprofile for power at http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/news/
• valgrind for power at http://valgrind.org/
• performance inspector for power at http://perfinsp.sourceforge.net/
• fdpr pro at http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/fdprpro
• gcc for power at http://gcc.gnu.org/
• Advanced Toolchain for power at ftp://linuxpatch.ncsa.uiuc.edu/toolchain/at/at05/

A discussion about the hugetlbfs project.

Additional Information

• libhugetlbfs home page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/libhugetlbfs
• Developers page for libhugetlbfs at http://libhugetlbfs.ozlabs.org/

The second in a two part conversation with Paul McKenney about the Realtime Linux Project.

Additional Information

• RT Linux - http://www.rtlinuxfree.com
• Redhat MRG - http://www.redhat.com/mrg/
• Novell Enterprise Realtime - http://www.novell.com/products/realtime/
• Realtime Patchset - http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/
• Ubuntu Realtime - http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/admin/linux-lowlatency
• Linux Weekly News - http://lwn.net

The first in a two part conversion with Paul McKenney about the Realtime Linux project.

Additional Information

• January 2007 Linux Journal article “SMP and Embedded Real Time” at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9361
• Realtime Linux Community Wiki at http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
• Realtime Java articles on developerWorks at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=Real+time+Java+Part&S_TACT=105AGX02&S_CMP=ART
• IBM Systems Journal on Realtime at http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sjpip.html