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LinuxCon 2009 closing remarks

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Oct. 3, 2009

According to the great majority of people that attended LinuxCon 2009, the overall knowledge that was gained and the profound community spirit that was shared at the conference will linger until at least LinuxCon 2010. There's no question that the event was a success.

More than 18 expert sessions, informative keynote addresses and dozens of opportunities to relax and socialize with the Linux community and open source developers.

LinuxCon attendees appreciated the balance of learning and information they got from the sessions. Overall feedback from those surveyed was generally positive.

Some of the highlights of the conference include:

  • Jim Zemlin's opening keynote, which showcased the important numbers that surround the Linux ecosystem, such as 2,700,00, the number of lines of code added to kernel in the last year according to the recently updated "Who Writes Linux" paper from the Linux Foundation, 10,923, the number of lines of code added to the Linux kernel every day, and 5,547, the number of lines deleted every day.

  • The relevation of the Fake Linux Torvalds' identities: Dan Lyons, the ghost behind FakeSteveJobs and currently a Newsweek reporter; Matt Asay, CNET open source blogger and VP of business development at Alfresco; Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier, former reporter and currently community manager for openSUSE; and Jono Bacon, Community Manager, Ubuntu. Followers of the FLT tweets voted Matt Asay as the most popular impostor.

  • Addressing the LinuxCon attendees in his Wednesday keynote on "The Freedom to Collaborate," HP Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist Bdale Garbee announced the launch of a new HP-sponsored web portal for supporting non-commercial Linux distributions and described the value of collaboration for businesses who use open collaboration.

  • Speaking before a combined session of LinuxCon and the co-located Linux Plumber's Conference, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth drilled home the concepts of cadence, quality, and design in the Linux development ecosystem, particularly cadence.

    • And these are just a few interesting things that happened at LinuxCon. Alfresco's Matt Asay had a stellar panel debating the real costs of Open Source, Intel’s Dirk Hohndel provided details of the exciting Moblin project, and Noah Broadwater, VP Information Services, Sesame Workshop gave great details about how Sesame deployed SUSE Linux.

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    Attendees at LinuxCon were the first to hear news about a new Moblin-based netbook coming to the market. On Wednesday that news was confirmed: at the Intel Developer's Forum in San Francisco, Dell, Canonical and Intel announced the availability of a Moblin v2-based netbook model, the Dell Inspiron Mini 10V.

    The 10V will run Canonical's Moblin Netbook Remix and went on sale September 24.

    To make the conference even more interesting, Qualcomm gave away Android-based smartphones to some lucky people and Novell had a drawing for Chumby devices.

    LinuxCon ended with a nice end-of-show reception sponsored by Intel. Outstanding food in a gorgeous setting near the event site was enjoyed by all attendees.

    And there's good news as well, for those who could not attend LinuxCon: You can register to view many conference sessions for a flat $49. You can archive and pause the material to review at your leisure. Highlights include:

  • Keeping Open Source Open -- A look at patents, trolls and our friend in Redmond with Zemlin and Keith Bergelt from the Open Invention Network.

  • Novell's James Bottomley explained how to contribute to the Linux kernel and why it makes economic sense.

  • John Ellis from Motorola on How to Manage Open Source Compliance and Governance in the Enterprise.

  • Kernel developer Chris Wright from Red Hat examined KSM: A mechanism for improving virtualization density with KVM.

    • Overall, the great deal of knowledge gained by LinuxCon 2009 attendees will certainly benefit the community-at-large, because there are great new Linux technologies in development right now, and conference attendees have an edge on capitalizing on that future.

    After the overall success of LinuxCon 2009, some industry observers are now predicting that the number and diversity of similar conferences might increase over time.

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