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A tour of the first-ever Linux Hall of Fame: Written on Tue, 08/23/11 - 5:48pm; As part of the 20th anniversary of Linux, the Linux Foundation put together its first ever Linux Hall of Fame exhibit. They showcased it at LinuxCon, held in Vancouver last week. The exhibit features signed items from the who’s-who of the Linux world like Linus Torvalds. The Linux Foundation’s...; Read More
Torvalds says, "Virtualization is evil": Written on Thu, 08/18/11 - 11:25am; Ask the world's most famous kernel developer what he thinks of the virtualization wars going on the Linux community between KVM and Xen and you'll hear a condemnation (of a sort) of them both. "I'm not a virtualization kind of guy. I think virtualization is evil," Linus Torvalds told the crowd at LinuxCon...; Read More
Live blogging LinuxCon: The Changing Linux Landscape: Written on Wed, 08/17/11 - 5:50pm; Jay Lyman, an analyst for The 451 Group likes this Tweet: "If you're not ashamed of your code, you waited too long to put it out." That sums up the feeling with the main Linux distro players, he said during a session at LinuxCon. Here is my live blog from the session on Wednesday where he ran down the...; Read More
Live blogging: LinuxCon Keynotes Jim Zemlin, Jim Whitehurst: Written on Wed, 08/17/11 - 12:04pm; LinuxCon has only just kicked off and I'm already having an interesting time. Riding the elevator to the conference, in walks Linus Torvalds. And Alan Clark of SUSE. I'm already wearing my badge and Torvalds make a joke that he's grateful for badges and he's not good with names -- even with names of...; Read More
20 years of Linux: Then and Now: Written on Wed, 08/17/11 - 1:36am; LinuxCon kicks off on Wednesday and I'll be there to report on the keynotes, the news, the fun stuff. To kick it off, the Linux Foundation sent out this then-and-now graphic of how far Linux has come in its 20 years. Note the number of lines of code, the numbers of patents and the number of "Linux-based"...; Read More

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