Slideshow: LinuxCon and CloudOpen Highlights

The past 24 hours have flown by so quickly here at LinuxCon and CloudOpen in San Diego. We had some serious laughs as the Linux kernel developer panel took the stage Wednesday afternoon, sailed to Qualcomm Innovation Center’s fun party at...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 30, 2012

LinuxCon Live Blog: SUSE, Red Hat and Author Phil McKinney

Follow our live coverage of the LinuxCon and CloudOpen keynotes on Thursday afternoon, starting at 4:30 p.m. Pacific. Michael Miller of SUSE will start with a keynote on service oriented clouds. 4:50 p.m. is Tim Burke of Red Hat on...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 30, 2012

{VIDEO} Live from LinuxCon/CloudOpen: OpenStack's Jonathan Bryce

Hosting an event with so many talented people gives us a unique opportunity to steal a few minutes with members of the community who are working on the technologies that will form the future of cloud computing. Today at LinuxCon and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 30, 2012

Quotes from the Kernel Panel at LinuxCon in San Diego

A highlight of yesterday’s excellent LinuxCon and CloudOpen conference was definitely the kernel panel featuring Sarah Sharp, Ted Ts’o, Greg K-H, Linus Torvalds and moderator James Bottomley. Some quotes: Sarah: “There are misconceptions...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 30, 2012

Live Blog from LinuxCon: Qualcomm, Facebook and Twitter Keynotes

The action begins Thursday morning at 9:15 a.m. with a keynote from Rob Chandhok of Qualcomm. He’ll talk about “Mobility, Proximity and Compute Meshes.” 9:35 is Amir Michael from Facebook to talk about Open Compute. And 9:55 is Chris...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 30, 2012

Slideshow: LinuxCon and CloudOpen Kick Off in San Diego

LinuxCon 2012 was off to a great start in San Diego Tuesday with a full day of Linux training and the Linux Kernel Summit. On Tuesday night, conference attendees kicked back at CloudStack‘s fabulous rooftop party in downtown San Diego for...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 29, 2012

Live Blogging LinuxCon: Wednesday Morning Keynotes

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. <a...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 29, 2012

{VIDEO} How Much Do You Really Know About Linux?

LinuxCon and CloudOpen are off to a great start, and there is still a lot to come. In fact, the man (that would be Linus) takes the stage in about an hour. If you’re not here, don’t miss him on the live stream. In the mean time, with all...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 29, 2012

Live Blogging LinuxCon: Wednesday Afternoon Keynotes

Live coverage of LinuxCon and CloudOpen 2012 starts again this afternoon at 4 p.m. with a keynote from Linus Torvalds. See the full conference schedule for a list of keynote speakers. This afternoon we’ll hear from Intel’s Imad Sousou,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 29, 2012

What Users Want for the Cloud

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...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 29, 2012

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

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...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 28, 2012

Follow Our Live Coverage from LinuxCon and CloudOpen

Today I’m headed to sunny San Diego for the LinuxCon and CloudOpen conferences. Woohoo! This will be my first LinuxCon and I’m pretty excited to meet new community members, reconnect with those I met at Collaboration Summit in San...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 28, 2012

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

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...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 27, 2012

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

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...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 27, 2012

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

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...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 27, 2012

What I'm Looking Forward to at LinuxCon Next Week

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...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 24, 2012

Open Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of Aug. 20

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...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 23, 2012

CloudOpen Preview: Defining the Open Cloud Stack

Greg DeKoenigsberg is the Vice President of Community at Eucalyptus Systems and is on the opening morning keynote panel this Wednesday, August 29 at CloudOpen. He and his fellow panelists, Mark Hinkle from Citrix and Stefano Maffulli from...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 23, 2012

A New Collaboration Aimed at Automatically Backporting the Linux Kernel

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...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 22, 2012

SUSE Aims for One-Click Enterprise Deployment on OpenStack

Editor’s Note: This article is part of an ongoing weekly series on Leaders of the Open Cloud running in advance of CloudOpen, Aug. 28-31 in San Diego. SUSE’s Alan Clark will present at the conference on “Private Cloud Availability and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 21, 2012

Test Your Linux Knowledge at LinuxCon & CloudOpen 2012!

So, you think you really know what’s happening with Linux? Well, if you’re planning on attending LinuxCon or CloudOpen in San Diego this month, we’re going to give you a chance to prove it – and you could win an opportunity to beef up your...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 20, 2012

Stable Kernel Tree Status, August 2012

As I posted to the linux-kernel mailing list, the 3.4 kernel tree will be the next long-term kernel that I will be maintaining for at least 2 years. Currently I’m maintaining the following stable kernel trees for the following amount of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 20, 2012

The LinuxCon/CloudOpen Experience

Imagine arriving at a conference where you immediately recognize Linux kernel developers from their annual Linux Kernel Summit photo. You connect with colleagues from other companies but with whom you’re working on collaborative, open...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 16, 2012

Open Source Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of Aug. 13

OpenStack got a hefty share of the open cloud headlines this week with both Red Hat and Rackspace announcing new cloud services built on the open source platform. A recent Google survey of CFOs shows these execs might be good targets for...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 16, 2012

Revealed: Limited Edition "I Fight for an Open Cloud" T-shirt

Two weeks from today The Linux Foundation will debut CloudOpen. This is a really exciting time in cloud computing, a time when developers and open source projects are clearly leading the way in technology innovation. The building blocks...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 15, 2012