Kernel Performance
Session Chair: Stephen Tweedie, Red Hat

Analyzing the Overload Behavior of a Simple Web Server
Niels Provos, University of Michigan; Chuck Lever, AOL-Netscape; Stephen Tweedie, Red Hat

Linux Kernel Hash Table Behavior: Analysis and Improvements
Chuck Lever, Sun-Netscape Alliance

Dynamic Buffer Cache Management Scheme Based on Simple and Aggressive Prefetching
H. Seok Jeon and Sam H. Noh, Hong-Ik University

Potpourri
Session Chair: Donald Becker, Scyld Computing

The Linux BIOS
Ronald G. Minnich, James Hendricks, and Dale Webster, Los Alamos National Labs

LOBOS (Linux OS Boots OS): Booting a Kernel in 32-bit Mode
Ronald Minnich, Los Alamos National Labs

KLAT2's Flat Neighborhood Network
H.G. Dietz and T.I. Mattox, University of Kentucky

Linux on the Desktop

Xfce : A Lightweight Desktop Environment
Olivier Fourdan, Xfce

The State of the Arts - Linux Tools for the Graphic Artist
Michael J. Hammel, The Graphics Muse

Open-Source Group Calendaring: GCTP and OpenFlock
David Sifry, Linuxcare

XFree86
Session Chair: Leonard Zubkoff, VA Linux Systems

Translucent Windows in X
Keith Packard, XFree86 Core Team, SuSE Inc.
(30 minutes)

Developing Drivers and Extensions for XFree86-4.x
Dirk Hohndel, SuSE Linux AG; Robin Cutshaw, Intercore
(30 minutes)

Invited Talk

Using KDE Components (KParts)
Kurt Granroth, KDE

KParts, the new KDE component architecture, makes creating embedded components an almost trivial endeavor. This talk will show you both how to use existing components as well as the basic steps needed to create your own.
(30 minutes)

Applications
Session Chair: David Halstead, Iowa State University

BLASTH, a BLAS Library for Dual SMP Computers
Guignon Thomas, Laboratoire ASCI

Sequence Analysis on a 216-Processor Beowulf Cluster
Katerina Michalickova, Moyez Dharsee, and Christopher W.V. Hogue Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute

The Development and Integration of a Distributed 3D FFT for a Cluster of Workstations
Christopher E. Cramer and John A. Board, Duke University

Miscellaneous

Dynamic Probes and Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface for Linux
Richard J. Moore, IBM UK

DocBook: A Tutorial for Hackers and Writers
Dave Mason, Red Hat

Knowing When to Say No
Allan Cantos, Acrylis, Inc.

Kernel ports
Session Chair: Jes Sorensen, Linux Care

Linux on the System/390
Adam Thornton, Sine Nomine Assoc.

A user-mode port of the Linux kernel
Jeff Dike

Embedded Linux
Nicholas McGuire

Clusters
Chair and Moderator: David Greenberg, Center for Computing Sciences

First-come, first-serve 5 minute descriptions of existing clusters, their shortcomings, and plans for improvements.

Linux Development

Mozilla as a cross-platform application development framework
David Ascher, Eric Promislow, and Dick Hardt, ActiveState Tool Corporation

Perl, Python and Zope
Dick Hardt and Gisle Aas, ActiveState Tool Corporation; Paul Everitt, Di gital Creations

Library Interface Versioning in Solaris and Linux
David J. Brown and Karl Runge, Solaris Engineering, Sun Microsystems

Ken Coar is a director and Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation, and a Senior Software Engineer with IBM. He has over two decades of experience with network software and applications, system administration, system programming, process analysis, and computer security. Ken has worked with the World Wide Web since 1992, is a member of The Apache Group, and is heading the project to develop Internet RFCs for CGI. He is the author of "Apache Server for Dummies," and co-author of "Apache Server Unleashed."