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 <h3>Ben&nbsp;Hutchings</h3>
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+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>Ben Hutchings</h1>
+  <ul>
+    <li>
+      Professional software engineer by day, Debian developer by night
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Regular Linux contributor in both roles since 2008
+      <ul>
+       <li>
+         Maintaining a net driver in my day job, plus core networking
+         and PCI code as necessary
+       </li>
+       <li>
+         Debian kernel team member, now doing most of the unstable
+         maintenance aside from ports
+       </li>
+       <li>
+         Maintaining Linux 3.2.<var>y</var> stable update series on
+         kernel.org
+       </li>
+      </ul>
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>Linux releases early and often</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Linux is released about 5 times a year (plus stable updates
+      every week or two)
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      For 'wheezy' we chose to freeze with Linux 3.2, which was
+      getting pretty old by the time of release
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Good news: we have lots of new kernel features in testing/unstable
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Bad news: some of them won't really work without new userland
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>Team device driver [3.3]</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Alternative to the bonding driver - simpler, modular, high-level
+      control deferred to userland
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Basic configuration can be done with <tt>ip</tt>, but it really
+      needs new tools - <tt>teamd</tt>, <tt>teamnl</tt>, etc.
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Want to make it work?  See
+      <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/695850">http://bugs.debian.org/695850</a>
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
+<div class="slide">
+  <h1>Transcendent memory [3.0-3.5]</h1>
+  <ul class="incremental">
+    <li>
+      Abstract storage for memory pages, expected to be slower than
+      regular memory but faster than disk
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Can provide a second layer of page cache (cleancache and frontswap)
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Pages stored by hypervisor (Xen), compressed local memory
+      (zcache) or cluster of machines (RAMster)
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Not yet enabled in Debian kernels, and needs some thought about
+      configuration
+    </li>
+    <li>
+      Want to make it work?  See
+      <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/454795/">https://lwn.net/Articles/454795/</a>
+      and mail debian-kernel
+    </li>
+  </ul>
+</div>
+
 <div class="slide">
   <h1>Questions?</h1>
 </div>