PickVidsBest Operating systems & kernels Videos
The 111 Operating systems & kernels videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 46 intermediate, 26 for a general viewer, and 36 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Computer History Museum, The Linux Foundation, EuroBSDCon.
Dtrace Review
A 2007 Google Tech Talk in which Bryan Cantrill demonstrates DTrace and explains how it improves debugging of both development and live production systems.
Florian Grunow, Niklaus Schiess: Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS
A 32C3 talk dissecting Red Star OS, North Korea's state-built operating system.
BlueHat IL 2023 - David Weston - Default Security
David Weston's BlueHat IL 2023 talk traces the evolution of Windows security and previews Windows 11 and hardware advances.
BeOS DEMO VIDEO
The official demo video from Be, Inc.
RustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duffy
Joe Duffy's RustConf 2017 closing keynote on his experience at Microsoft building Midori, an operating system written in a Rust-like safe systems language.
XFS: Recent and Future Adventures in Filesystem Scalability - Dave Chinner
Dave Chinner's linux.conf.au 2012 talk on XFS scalability, covering pain points with large numbers of files and complex metadata, and the work to fix XFS metadata performance.
Bloat: How and Why UNIX Grew Up (and Out) - Rusty Russell,Matt Evans
Rusty Russell and Matt Evans examine why Unix utilities like ls and cat grew from a few kilobytes to over a hundred kilobytes.
EFI and Linux: the future is here, and it's awful - Matthew Garrett
Matthew Garrett's linux.conf.au 2012 talk covers EFI and UEFI from the Linux point of view: why the PC BIOS was bad, what EFI changes, the issues it brings, and Secure Boot.
27c3 - Desktop on the Linux... (and BSD, of course) - Wolfgang Draxinger (+ Lennart Poettering)
A 27c3 talk on the Linux desktop (GNOME) by Wolfgang Draxinger, repeatedly interrupted and corrected by Lennart Poettering from the audience.
[Linux.conf.au 2013] - The real story behind Wayland and X
A linux.conf.au 2013 talk by a Wayland developer who previously worked on X, telling the history of X and why Wayland was created.
Container Hacks and Fun Images
Jessie Frazelle's DockerCon SF 2015 talk on running Docker containers for desktop applications, with fun container hacks and images.
Qubes OS: The Operating System That Can Protect You Even If You Get Hacked
Micah Lee's Circle of HOPE 2018 talk on Qubes OS, which isolates activities in separate virtual machines so one compromise, such as a bad PDF or USB stick, does not expose everything.
Geo Carncross: How to program computers (kos)
A 2014 talk by Geo Carncross (geocar) demonstrating kOS, a minimalist operating system and programming environment built around the k language, with early screenshots.
The new Windows subsystem for Linux architecture: a deep dive - BRK3068
A Microsoft Build 2019 session in which the WSL team explains the new WSL 2 architecture, which runs a real Linux kernel alongside Windows on a hypervisor.
Quick Start, Episode 7: Crimes... And Felonies.
Cathode Ray Dude covers two bizarre HP 'Quick Start' features: QuickLook, an offline email client built on EFI firmware, and Daystarter, which hijacks the Windows boot process.
Chain of Fools : Upgrading through every version of windows (HQ)
TheRasteri installs MS-DOS and Windows 1.0, then upgrades in place through nearly every Windows version up to Windows 7, checking which programs survive.
The future of Linux Containers
Solomon Hykes shows Docker to the public for the first time in a five-minute lightning talk at PyCon 2013.
June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit: Raid-Z Expansion
Matt Ahrens presents the FreeBSD Foundation sponsored RAID-Z Expansion project for ZFS at the June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit.
Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide
Bryan Cantrill's OSCON 2015 talk on moving a proprietary product to open source, drawing on Sun's history with Solaris and illumos, licensing choices and the relicensing after Oracle's acquisition.
A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem by Marshall Kirk McKusick
Marshall Kirk McKusick gives a talk at EuroBSDCon tracing filesystem and storage development from 1979 to today, using the BSD Fast Filesystem as the focus.
Speakeasy JS - Redbean: Actually Portable Executable Web Server (Justine Tunney)
Justine Tunney presents Redbean, a web server distributed as a single actually portable executable that runs on multiple operating systems.
OffensiveCon19 - Alex Ionescu - Keynote - Reversing Without Reversing
Alex Ionescu's OffensiveCon 2019 keynote on how reverse engineering is done on Windows without conventional reversing.
36C3 - A systematic evaluation of OpenBSD's mitigations
A 36C3 talk that systematically evaluates OpenBSD's exploit mitigations, asking how effective they really are and what they cost in performance, complexity and inspectability.
Plan 9: Not dead, Just Resting, by Ori Bernstein
Ori Bernstein gives an overview of Plan 9 at a NYC*BUG meeting.