Luke Kanies creator of the great Unix configuration management tool Puppet gives a talk at LinuxConf.au 2008. It is mainly focused on how puppet actually works and what some ideas behind the tool are.

• The description of the talk: http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=166
• The video (OGG): http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Fri/mel8-166.ogg
• The slides: http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/slides/166-Puppet_LCA_...
• Audio in (SPX): http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Fri/mel8-166.spx

This nice talk at LinuxConf.au 2008 is about tuning NFS-Servers and their clients. It not only gives some basic hints on what you should take care of when configuring NFS. You are also given some very nice insights on what factors actually influence NFS performance.

• The description of the talk: http://linux.conf.au/programme/detail?TalkID=130
• The video (OGG): http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Fri/mel8-130.ogg
• The slides: http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/slides/130-lca2008-nfs...
• Audio in (SPX): http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Fri/mel8-130.spx