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Some highlights of the first LinuxCon 2009

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Sep. 28, 2009

For the most part, the majority of people that have attended the first LinuxCon symposium agree that it was a success. There were Linux sessions and various workshops, informative keynotes and a host of opportunities to relax, learn and connect with others that are part of the rapidly growing Linux community.

Conference attendees also appreciated the broad range of information they got from all the sessions. Feedback from those surveyed was overwhelmingly positive.

Some of the highlights of LinuxCon 2009 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.

  • There are three big areas of opportunity for Linux in the near future: cloud computing, mainframe, and Linux' future on the desktop. That was the main message of Monday's keynote from IBM's Dr. Robert Sutor.

  • The hugely popular Linux kernel roundtable, an all-star line-up of Linux kernel developers who gave their take on what's right--and what's wrong--with the Linux kernel today. The panel's members, Jon Corbet of LWN.net, Chris Wright from Red Hat, IBM's Ted Ts'o, Novell's Greg Kroah-Hartmann, and Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel, manned the stage to answer questions from panel moderator James Bottomley of Novell as well as many questions from the audience.

  • The well-attended Linux Foundation bowling party at Grand Central Bowling raised money for Defenders of Wildlife. The event was a success, with teams comprised of friends old and new who banded together for a common cause. Attendees raised $3,000 for the Defenders of Wildlife charity.

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  • Brockmeier tapped into his pro DJ expertise music to entertain and inform the audience about how Linux can be perceived through the lens of rock and roll.

  • Addressing the LinuxCon attendees on "The Freedom to Collaborate," HP Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist Dale 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, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth drilled home the concepts of cadence, quality and design in the Linux development ecosystem.

    • All in all, Linux conferences, open source gatherings and various Linux workshops are proving more and more popular and many in the Linux community are wishing there would be even more.

    We expect this trend to continue to increase in the short to medium term.

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