Ubuntu Summit Talks 2024

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AI & ML

Ubuntu Summit 2024 | Exploring the AI OS in the Ubuntu Kylin

The presentation explores the development of an AI-powered operating system within the Ubuntu Kylin distribution, focusing on integrating AI capabilities such as natural language interaction, personalization, and enhanced user experiences. The key components of the proposed system include a unified reasoning framework, AI basic services, an AI runtime, and an AI SDK, designed to address the challenges of AI fragmentation and resource constraints.

Compute

Ubuntu Summit 2024 | Unstoppable Force Behind Linux on RISC-V

This video discusses the progress and challenges in bringing the RISC-V architecture to consumer-grade devices. The speaker, Uni Leang, founder of Deep Computing, shares his experiences in partnering with various ecosystem players, including Canonical and Framework, to overcome the technical and logistical hurdles in bringing RISC-V laptops and other products to the market.

Ubuntu Summit 2024 | ROCm for AMD GPUs on Ubuntu

This presentation provides an overview of the ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) platform for AMD GPUs on Ubuntu, including an introduction to ROCm, getting started information, community packaging efforts, and compatibility considerations. The speaker highlights the availability of ROCm packages in Debian and Ubuntu, as well as the extensive testing and CI system set up to ensure compatibility across a wide range of GPU architectures.

Developer Experience

Ubuntu Summit 2024 | Building a Browser Rendering Engine in Rust

This talk provides an overview of the Servo project, a web rendering engine written in Rust, and its recent progress and plans for the future. The speaker discusses the project's history, community efforts, and technical developments, including work on embedding Servo in various applications and improving its performance and feature set.

Ubuntu Summit 2024 | Academy Software Foundation: Open Source Software for Motion Pictures

The video provides an overview of the Academy Software Foundation, which aims to support and grow the open-source software ecosystem in the motion picture industry. The presentation covers the history of open-source adoption in the industry, the foundation's mission and structure, as well as its various open-source projects that address a wide range of needs from visual effects to color management and rendering.

Ubuntu Summit 2024 | Open Platform for Enterprise AI

The video discusses the challenges of adopting open-source AI solutions in enterprises, highlighting the discrepancy between the speed of open-source development and the enterprises' need for stability and compliance. The speaker introduces the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (Opia) initiative, which aims to simplify and standardize the deployment of AI models in enterprise environments.

Ubuntu Summit 2024 | UMU - A unified tool for easily running your games outside of Steam

The video presents a new tool called UMU, which aims to provide a unified and consistent way to run games outside of Steam on Linux. The tool leverages Valve's Pressure Vessel technology to containerize and manage game dependencies, ensuring a stable and reliable gaming experience across different Linux distributions.

Ubuntu Summit 2024 | Miriway: Worlds of Wayland

The presentation covers the Miriway: Worlds of Wayland, a Wayland-based desktop compositor designed to help desktop environments migrate to the Wayland protocol. The speaker discusses the technical details, current capabilities, and future roadmap of Miriway, as well as its integration with various Linux distributions, including Fedora.

Ubuntu Summit 2024 | Unlocking Systems Insights: Leveraging eBPF for Data Collection

The talk explores the use of eBPF, a technology that enables extending the capabilities of the Linux kernel without modifying the source code or loading modules. It showcases how the Inspector Gadget framework can be leveraged to build and deploy eBPF-based tools for data collection and system inspection on Kubernetes clusters and Linux hosts.

Open Source

Ubuntu Summit 2024 | Shining Light on the Open Source Supply Chain: The Risk in Community Health

This talk explores the challenges and risks associated with the open-source software supply chain, highlighting the importance of understanding community health metrics to make informed decisions about the software components used. The speakers introduce Gitminer Lab, an open-source tool that collects and analyzes data from various sources to provide insights into the sustainability and maintainability of open-source projects.