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FREENIX Track

FREENIX is a special track within the USENIX Annual Technical Conference. USENIX encourages the exchange of information and technologies between commercial product vendors and the free software world, as well as among the various free operating system alternatives themselves, and the FREENIX track has been created to further promote this process. FREENIX attendees may also attend any of the USENIX Conference offerings and informal get-togethers.

FREENIX is also a showcase for the latest developments and interesting applications in the world of freely redistributable software, covering everything from FreeBSD to Linux, GNU to Samba, etc. The FREENIX track attempts to cover the full range of software which is freely redistributable in source code form or provides pointers to where the code can be found on the Internet.

FREENIX Technical Presentations
We are looking for talks which advance the state-of-the-art of freely redistributable software or otherwise provide useful information to those faced with deploying (and "selling") free software in the field.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Operating system design
  • Network design and implementation
  • File system design
  • Highly-available systems
  • Highly-scalable systems
  • Graphical user interface tools
  • Desktop metaphors
  • File and print systems
  • System management tools
  • Security
  • Large scale system management
  • Interesting deployments of free software
  • How free software is being developed and managed today
Interesting applications of freely redistributable software might include:
  • Robotics and automation.
  • Clustering
  • Wearable computers
  • Embedded systems
  • High-speed networking
  • Studio graphics
  • Audio processing
How to Submit a FREENIX Technical Presentation
Please submit a one page abstract of your proposed presentation, along with a short biography and a comment about your connection with the software involved. This information will be provided to the reviewers of your paper. All topics in the FREENIX track must be about software which is freely redistributable in source code form. Please include pointers to where your code can be found.

Please include the following information for administrative handling:

  1. The title of the presentation and the name(s) of the presenters
  2. The name of one person who will serve as a contact, along with their email and postal addresses, day and evening phone numbers, and a fax number if available. Please email one copy of the above information (ASCII greatly preferred) to freenix@usenix.org
 

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