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Plumbers Conference Speaker Proposal Deadline Extended Until 7/31

By Angela Brown - July 22, 2008 - 8:21am

Linux Plumbers Conference 17-19 September 2008 Portland, Oregon USA http://linuxplumbersconf.org/

The deadline for Linux Plumbers Conference speaker proposals has been extended to July 31st. We are looking for proposals from knowledgeable speakers on timely technical topics related to core Linux software - kernel, utilities, graphics, libraries, etc. The ideal proposal will address a specific technical problem or opportunity and suggest solutions.

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Welcome Brian Proffitt to the Linux Foundation

By Amanda McPherson - July 17, 2008 - 3:54pm

I’m very pleased to welcome Brian Proffitt to the Linux Foundation. Brian will be serving as the community manager and editor for the Linux Developer Network. We’re extremely lucky to lure Brian away from Jupiter Media, where he built a thriving community and reported on Linux for such publications as Linux Today and Linux Planet.

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Linux is Big in Japan — Our Symposium

By Amanda McPherson - July 15, 2008 - 8:17pm

The 8th Linux Foundation Japan Symposium took place last week in Tokyo.  The goal of these symposiums is to bring leading Linux luminaries to present and interact with local senior software developers, with the goal of increasing open source participation by talented Japanese developers and also fostering Linux usage in the Japanese IT industry.

Andrew Morton was on hand to speak about the status and direction of kernel development, covering kernel process material and specifically highlighting areas that need to be worked on including solid state disks and the linux-next tree.

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2.6.26 at last

By Jonathan Corbet - July 14, 2008 - 2:27pm

Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.26 kernel on July 13 - somewhat later than most people had expected. At a full three months, this development cycle took longer than some others; that is especially surprising given that the number of patches merged and new features added is somewhat less than we have seen in recent development cycles. Still, at over 10,000 changesets, this is not a small release.

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Meet the People Who Have Trillions Riding on Linux this Fall

By Jim Zemlin - July 9, 2008 - 12:06pm

If you work around Linux regularly, in some ways the latest amazing news is… not that amazing. The New York Stock Exchange, where the world’s largest public companies trade their stocks, is now running on Linux. (Microsoft is not listed on the NYSE; they trade on the NASDAQ. Now *that* would have been a fun headline…) In addition the Chicago Mercantile Exchange also runs on Linux. While perhaps not as famous as the NYSE, the CME is one of the largest exchanges in the world. Even the Tokyo Stock Exchange is running on Linux.

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End User Summit registration now open

By Angela Brown - July 7, 2008 - 7:00am

The Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit gathers the leaders of the Linux development and vendor communities to collaborate with CTOs, architects and senior IT representatives from the largest and most dynamic end users in the world to accelerate problem solving and advance the Linux platform.Linux is a cornerstone operating system that has been growing in prominence and importance for the last two decades. This is the first event of its kind to bring together high performance end users with the highest level Linux community developers.

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Author of Wikinomics to Keynote at End User Summit

By Angela Brown - July 2, 2008 - 9:20am

Anthony Williams, the co-author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything will be the opening keynote on October 13th at the Linux Foundation End User Summit in New York City.

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LF Event User Summit: Green Venue chosen

By Angela Brown - July 2, 2008 - 8:18am

The first ever Linux Foundation End User Summit will take place at the recently opened Desmond Tutu Center in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City on October 13 & 14, 2008.

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2.6.26: almost there

By Jonathan Corbet - June 27, 2008 - 9:27am

I fell a little behind on the weather forecast pages, sorry for that. I plead that I was vacationing with the in-laws and would have gotten into serious trouble had I gone too near a keyboard. Anyway, things are caught up now.

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Nokia Launches a Full Scale War for the Mobile OS

By Jim Zemlin - June 24, 2008 - 2:12pm

It has been years since we have seen a full scale operating system war. Today’s announcement by Nokia that they will be open sourcing Symbian and making it available royalty free is the opening of yet another front in the blossoming mobile OS conflagration.

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