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Live Blogging LinuxCon: Wednesday Morning Keynotes

By Libby Clark - August 29, 2012 - 7:51am

Welcome to LinuxCon and CloudOpen 2012! We'll be live blogging the morning keynotes here. Join us at 9:15 a.m. for a keynote from Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. 

Live Blogging LinuxCon 2012: Wednesday Morning Keynotes

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What Users Want for the Cloud

By Amanda McPherson - August 29, 2012 - 7:36am

Today is opening day of LinuxCon and the first-ever CloudOpen. It represents the culmination of months of preparation and collaboration with speakers, sponsors and members of the community. And, it represents possibly the largest assembly of open source developers, sysadmins, cloud architects and business executives working on open technologies that we've ever had in one place at one time. 

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IBM's Angel Diaz: 3 Projects Creating User-Driven Standards for the Open Cloud

By Libby Clark - August 28, 2012 - 8:00am

To seasoned software standards expert Angel Diaz, today’s effort to create interoperability in the cloud is reminiscent of the mid-90s when HTTP emerged as a state-of-the-art technology. Every application server had to do that same function but there was no standard, he said. And so IBM helped create Apache web server software and the standard code for building web pages.

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Follow Our Live Coverage from LinuxCon and CloudOpen

By Libby Clark - August 28, 2012 - 7:00am

Today I'm headed to sunny San Diego for the LinuxCon and CloudOpen conferences. Woohoo!

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Announcing the Winners of the LinuxCon "Find Skater Tux" Competition

By Jennifer Cloer - August 27, 2012 - 10:08am

Today we're very excited to announce the winners of our "Find Skater Tux" competition, which invited community members to locate the skateboard-riding penguin on our web properties and send us the URL for a chance to win a custom Linux skateboard.

 

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Winning T-Shirt Contest Designs On Sale This Week at LinuxCon

By Libby Clark - August 27, 2012 - 8:00am

Brian Beck took first place in this year’s “Inspired by Linux” t-shirt design contest. We followed up with him shortly after the contest results were announced to find out more about his involvement with Linux and the open source community and what inspired his design.

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What I'm Looking Forward to at LinuxCon Next Week

By Amanda McPherson - August 24, 2012 - 9:56am

We have been preparing for next week for months. From picking the venue to coordinating mini-summits to shifting through the hundreds of talks submitted via the CFP, our events team and I have been focused on August 29-31 and now it's finally here. We are very close to selling out so if you plan on joining us please register today. 

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Open Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of Aug. 20

By Libby Clark - August 23, 2012 - 8:54am

This week's top open source cloud headlines feature a new OpenStack disribution release from Piston Cloud, an open source virtualization management tool from Convirture, interviews with cloud heavyweights at Intel and Eucalyptus, and new interoperability standards recommendations from the Open Data Center Alliance. And, of course, I'd be remiss to leave out a plug for next week's CloudOpen conference in San Diego. See you there! 

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CloudOpen Preview: Defining the Open Cloud Stack

By Jennifer Cloer - August 23, 2012 - 7:12am
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A New Collaboration Aimed at Automatically Backporting the Linux Kernel

By Jennifer Cloer - August 22, 2012 - 7:37am

The Linux Foundation's Driver Backport Workgroup is working on automatically backporting the Linux kernel, which was discussed in some detail at The Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit in April. As a result, a new collaboration is forming between this Workgroup and the compat-drivers project.

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