André Almeida

In the past 10 years, Linux gaming came from a painful experience to a reality, with competitive performance, smooth experience and even an ArchLinux based handheld device, the Steam Deck.

This progress was made possible by the effort of a strong community working in different parts of the stack, from Wine, userspace graphic drivers and finally the kernel.

Gaming workloads have been pushing Linux development to tackle bottlenecks and enhancements never seem before. In this talk, we are going to cover the progress made to enhance game performance from the kernel side, current work and next challenges.

It's not uncommon to see students wanting to discuss or learn a topic that isn't in the course curriculum. Without the proper references, teachers or colleagues to engage in a different topic, students may not follow that idea. One way of solving this is to find other students (and even teachers) with common interests to start developing extra curricular activities. This is how Enigma was created, a study group about privacy, cryptography and security at the University of Campinas (Brazil). In this talk, I will give an overview of the experience, share lessons learned, and discuss best practices based on the audience's experiences as well.