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I'm going to FOSDEM 2026!

I'm presenting in the Containers dev room. My talk is Java Memory Management in Containers and it's scheduled as the first talk on the first day. I'm the warm-up act!

The Java devroom has been a stalwart at FOSDEM since 2004 (sometimes in other forms), but sadly there's no Java devroom this year. There's a story about that, but it's not mine to tell.

Please recommend to me any interesting talks! Here's a few that caught my eye:

Debian/related:

• Package managers à la carte: A Formal Model of Dependency Resolution
• 32 years of Debian: how a do-ocracy keeps evolving
• Free as in Burned Out: Who Really Pays for Open Source?

Containers:

• Who’s reproducing the reproducible images?

Research:

• Data science from the command line: a look back at 2 years of using xan
• Research software engineering: a movement and its instantiation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Other:

• Window Managers after Xorg (Mir)
• Charming Gray Buttons of the XX century: how widget toolkits evolved with computer architectures
• PAW, a programmable DAW