Fosdem Twenty Five

Interesting talks

Security

• Syd - an introduction to secure application sandboxing for Linux
• Tightening every bolt (about curl)
• The SELinux problem that cast a months long shadow
• A practical introduction to using sq - Sequoia’s PGP CLI
• Hardware backed SSH keys - ssh-tpm-agent

Go

• Privilege Separation in Go

Kernel

• https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4717-macros-gone-wild-the-usage-of-the-c-preprocessor-in-the-linux-kernel/
• https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5471-ngnfs-a-distributed-file-system-using-block-granular-consistency/
• https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5733-don-t-let-your-motivation-go-save-time-with-kworkflow/
• https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5875-rust-for-linux-an-overview/
• https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6231-status-and-desiderata-for-syscall-tracing-and-virtualization-support/

Image-based Linux and Boot Integrity

• https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4057-particleos-can-we-make-lennart-poettering-run-an-image-based-distribution-/
  • “ParticleOS: Can we make Lennart Poettering run an image based distribution?!”
  • The title has a high troll factor, as Lennart Poettering’s talk is the one just before ;-)

Retrocomputing

• https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4783-bildschirmtext-reeenacting-an-ancient-communication-system-using-javascript-and-common-lisp/

Containers

• https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6071-sandbox-ids-with-landlock/ (of course)