Last week, I gave a “How to test a specific version of Linux on PC hardware” talk at the Alposs conference in Echirolles near Grenoble, France.
This was a very nice technical conference, with 330 participants (+110 compared to last year), organized in the city hall of Echirolles near Grenoble and by Belledonne Communications (the editors of Linphone) and OW2, an international association of Free Software professionals. Echirolles has a very dynamic orientation, deploying Free and Open Source Software in many of its services, thus improving the services offered to its citizens.
My presentation gives you all the details to build a recent mainline kernel for your favorite PC distribution. Compiling and deploying a new kernel turns out to be very easy now, especially if you build the type of packages your distribution expects. At least I discovered how easier it is compared to building and installing a kernel with my embedded Linux experience. This way, you can discover the latest features in mainline Linux, participate to testing recent or even development kernels, and if you wish, contribute to the kernel code itself.
To make the instructions easier to find, and to allow everyone to benefit from my presentation, I made a video recording of my presentation too. Of course, you can also directly read the PDF slides.
Thanks to Pauline Perconte for taking pictures of my presentation, and to the whole staff, sponsors and participants who made that day memorable.