Linux Foundation Announcements

The Linux Foundation Announces End User Collaboration Summit

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:13:32 +0000

The Linux Foundation Announces End User Collaboration Summit

New Event will drive collaboration between Linux developers
and end users

SAN FRANCISCO – August 27, 2008 — The Linux Foundation, the non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the first Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit. The summit is a unique opportunity for end users to learn and interact with leaders from within the Linux community, including the highest level maintainers and developers.

The inaugural summit will take place October 13-14, 2008, at the Desmond Tutu Center in New York, New York and will provide end users a direct connection and voice to the kernel community. It will also give Linux community maintainers and developers direct access to knowledge sharing opportunities with the users of their software.

The event was created at the request of the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board, which is comprised of key Linux community members. By bringing together sophisticated end users and senior Linux developers, the Linux Foundation hopes to accelerate innovation and adoption of Linux.

Highlights of the Linux Foundation End User Summit will include:

• An address from Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian, which will include a Q&A with the Linux Foundation’s executive director Jim Zemlin.

• A discussion with Paul Cormier, executive vice president and president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat.

• One-on-one discussions between end users and key Linux maintainers James Bottomley, Dave Jones, Christoph Lameter, Chris Mason, Andrew Morton, Arjan van de Ven, Chris Wright, and many more.

• A panel featuring notable Linux end users from the New York Stock Exchange, The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, AIG, Credit Suisse, Fidelity National Information Services, and more.

• A keynote address from Anthony Williams, co-author of the best-selling book Wikinomics, on how mass collaboration is changing the economics of the software industry, with far reaching implications for end users.

• Jon Corbet from LWN.net will present the Linux Weather Forecast, with a spotlight on where the Linux kernel is headed in the next 12 to 24 months.

• A candid discussion about end user participation in Linux with Rishab Ghosh and Red Monk’s Stephen O’Grady.

“The open source development model is unique. End users not only give feedback on the software; they’re a fundamental and critical part of the community, submitting patches and developing new features themselves,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “Before this event, however, there was no neutral forum that would advance and optimize this collaboration. The End User Summit will fill this gap and accelerate problem solving for Linux.”

The Linux Foundation fosters innovation by hosting events for the Linux technical community, application developers, industry and end users. These events help to solve pressing issues facing Linux and fuel collaboration and communication between all members of the Linux ecosystem: developers, users, industry, ISVs and distribution vendors. Other Linux Foundation events include a mix of industry and community conferences such as its annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summits, Kernel Summit, the Linux Plumbers Conference and the Linux Foundation Legal Summits.

More information on this and other events can be found at here.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a non-profit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by providing unified resources and services needed for open source to successfully compete with closed platforms. For more information on the Linux Foundation please visit www.linuxfoundation.org.

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Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker Featured in Open Voices Podcast Series

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:59:41 +0000

Baker shares her views on mass collaboration, navigating the open source community and AOL, Google and Microsoft

Core News Facts

• The fifth Open Voices podcast installation features a conversation with Mozilla Chairman, Mitchell Baker, and the Linux Foundation Executive Director, Jim Zemlin.
• Baker admits that Mozilla’s open source strategy was in direct reaction to market and competitive pressures and calls out Microsoft for illegal activities.
• As one of the first software projects to “open source” its technology, she explains how the Mozilla Foundation navigated community, licensing and growth issues.
• Baker also shares her opinions on the motivations and ingredients involved in mass collaboration, specifically around the Mozilla and other open source projects.
• Previous podcasts have featured conversations with Linus Torvalds, Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu, Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian and Oracle’s Edward Screven.
• The podcast series is one of many information sources the LF hosts or facilitates. Other activities include the recently released Guide to Participating in the Linux Kernel Community by Jonathan Corbet and the Linux Foundation study on Who Writes Linux and Who Supports It.

Podcast Excerpts

Baker on competition:
“We have always lived in a brutally difficult product landscape…In the late 1990’s, Netscape had gone from a position of having enormous market share for the browsers, probably as high as in the 90’s, I think, before Microsoft got involved, to a steadily declining market share. Partly because Microsoft is a great competitor and they’ve built some good products, and partly because they engaged in a campaign of illegal activities. And then you combine those and the Netscape market share had been dropping steadily for quite some time. So it’s clear that the way of producing a browser and how we were trying to keep choice and alternatives alive had to be done differently. Thus open source.”

Baker on mass collaboration:
“There is a sense, I would say, of community and bonding that is an extreme motivator. Sometimes people ask me why anyone would work on a software project if they weren’t getting paid for it. Well, think about how many people don’t like their job. Or, feel like they’ve got expertise that doesn’t get used. Or, their colleague or the management or the people they’re responsible for get in the way. Or, a company is going in a direction that doesn’t make sense and cuts off all the interesting projects and your advancement isn’t based on reputation or skill, it’s based on, you know who happens to like you. Well, we can mitigate or eliminate almost all of those things in an open source project. And so it turns out a lot people don’t want to be couch potatoes, right. And if you provide a setting in which something really interesting is happening and it matters; you can see that other people use it and it’s got really smart people working on it, and they will accept you if you find interesting things to do, and some of them will even help you. And you can see the results of that, you now, you can generate a reputation and have people interested in you and have your work used by millions of people. That rolls up into a pretty motivating package.”

Open Voices Podcast Series

Listen to the Open Voices Podcast with Mitchell Baker

Open Voices with Edward Screven of Oracle

Open Voices with Ron Hovsepian of Novell

Open Voices Podcast with Mark Shuttleworth

Open Voices with Linus Torvalds, Part II

Open Voices with Linus Torvalds, Part I

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About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by providing unified resources and services needed for open source to successfully compete with closed platforms. For more information, please visit www.linux-foundation.org.

Canonical Joins The Linux Foundation

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:09:09 +0000

Commercial sponsor of Ubuntu ® looks to support cross-industry collaboration and promotion to fuel Linux growth

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – August 18, 2008 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Canonical has become a member of the Foundation.

Canonical is the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, a popular version of the Linux operating system, and supports a wide range of other open source projects including Bazaar, Storm and Upstart. Ubuntu has become a popular choice for the server and desktop as well as for the rapidly emerging areas of netbooks and mobile Internet devices.
Matt Zimmerman is the CTO of the Ubuntu project in Canonical, chairs the Ubuntu Technical Board and leads all engineering efforts for the distribution.

“The Linux Foundation occupies a critical, non-commercial function in the use and popularization of Linux around the world. We’ve always seen the Linux Foundation’s value and are pleased to now become an official member and support its activities. We look forward to working with them to continue the march of Linux in all areas of computing,” said Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu program manager and CTO, Canonical.

Ubuntu community members have been active participants in a variety of workgroups at the Foundation, including the Linux Standard Base, Desktop Architects and Driver Backporting groups. With Canonical’s support, user interests for both commercial and community versions of Ubuntu will be represented.

“Canonical is an important new member for the Linux Foundation,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation. “Matt and his team have created an exciting distribution that has taken the world by storm. They have rallied the cause of cross-industry, cross-community collaboration for years. We are extremely pleased to work even more closely with Canonical as we push Linux to the next stage of growth.”

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Linux Foundation Publishes Guide to Participating in the Linux Kernel Community

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:36:24 +0000

Linux Foundation Publishes Guide to Participating in the Linux Kernel Community

New online book will make Linux participation easier for new developers worldwide

SAN FRANCISCO, August 13, 2008 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced it has published an important new guide to participating in the Linux kernel community. The 30-page book was written by noted Linux authority Jonathan Corbet and is available today on the Linux Foundation’s Linux Developer Network: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/participation.

Readers will learn why contributing code to the mainline kernel is desirable, how the contribution process works, and how to avoid common pitfalls along the way. Since the Linux kernel depends on outside contributions for its continued success, it’s vitally important to make participating in that community easy for new developers. While the kernel community is thriving with more than 1,000 developers at more than 100 companies* contributing just last year, the Linux Foundation, in collaboration with its vendor and technical advisory councils, wants to encourage participation through education and promotion. This guide is a centerpiece of those efforts.

The guide provides a process-oriented discussion and does not require a deep knowledge of kernel programming. Sections from the book address the following:

• The development process, including the kernel release cycle and the mechanics of merge windows
• Early-stage planning and the importance of involving the kernel community early
• The coding process, including patch requirements
• Posting patches for review
• Working with reviewers as part of the development process
• Advanced topics, such as managing patches with Git and reviewing patches submitted by others

“The Linux Foundation hears from developers all over the world who want to participate in the kernel community but sometimes struggle with exactly how,” said Amanda McPherson, vice president, marketing and developer programs. “This new guide will make that process easier and bring new companies and developers into the Linux fold. We are extremely proud of the work Jon Corbet has done here and feel it will make a lasting improvement to the Linux community.”

“While the Linux kernel development process is quite open, it can sometimes be surprising or intimidating to new developers. This guide should help aspiring kernel developers and their managers understand how kernel development works, how to avoid common pitfalls and how to join our community in making the kernel better for everybody,” said Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer and executive editor of Linux Weekly News (LWN.net).

Corbet tracks Linux developments and frequently gives speeches on the Linux development process. He is also the author of the Linux Foundation’s Linux Weather Forecast report and the book “LINUX Device Drivers” published by O’Reilly. Jon Corbet will also be speaking at the upcoming Linux Foundation End User Summit in New York on October 13 – 14, 2008. For more information on this event, please visit https://www.linuxfoundation.org/events/enduser.

In the spirit of open source collaboration, readers of the guide can make comments in the Linux Developer Network and post questions in the forum devoted to Linux development. The Linux Foundation plans on translating the book into other languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and others.

* “Linux Kernel Development: How Fast is it Going, Who is doing it and Who is Sponsoring it?” published by The Linux Foundation April 1, 2008.

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VMware Joins The Linux Foundation

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:27:02 +0000

VMware joins leading Linux consortium to address increasing adoption of virtualization and cloud computing with Linux

SAN FRANCISCO – August 6, 2008 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that VMware has become a member of the Foundation. The company joins existing Linux Foundation members and technology leaders such as Adobe, AMD, Dell, Fujitsu, Google, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, Motorola, NEC, Novell, Oracle and Red Hat, among others.

“A growing number of organizations run their Linux environments on VMware virtualization, and the Linux Foundation gives us a collaborative forum to effectively address the needs of our customers,” said Dan Chu, vice president of emerging products and solutions at VMware. “We are delighted to become a member of The Linux Foundation and look forward to making future contributions to the Linux community.”

According to research firm IDC, revenue for the virtual machine software market may increase by more than four times from 2006-2011 to reach $4.8 billion by 2011*. As adoption of Linux expands as a result of its natural position as a platform for next-generation computing in the cloud and in virtualized environments, companies such as VMware are looking to The Linux Foundation as the forum for collaboration.

VMware’s participation in the Linux community includes the contribution of the Virtual Machine Interface (VMI), a paravirtualization interface as an open specification, and subsequent collaboration with the Linux kernel community and others in the development of a source-level paravirtualization interface (paravirt-ops) for the Linux kernel. In 2007, VMware announced the release of its Open Virtual Machine Tools, the open source implementation of VMware Tools, and the creation of the open-vm-tools project to enable community participation.

“Linux is a natural platform for virtualization and cloud computing. VMware is obviously a leader in that field and a leading ISV who has embraced the Linux platform,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation. “We’re excited to have VMware as our newest member.”

VMware has led the industry for the last decade in the breadth of operating systems supported by VMware virtualization, including all major Linux operating systems. VMware will work with the Linux Foundation and its members to address the increasing number of Linux users who are working with High Performance Computing (HPC), managed desktops, Web 2.0 technologies, and Software as a Service (SaaS) in virtualized environments.

* Source: IDC, Worldwide Virtual Machine Software 2008-2012 Forecast, Doc # 212142, May 2008.

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Linux Kernel Developers Issue Statement re: Open Drivers

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:03:59 +0000

The Linux kernel development community has joined together to release a strong statement about the need for open source device drivers.

While the vast majority of devices now have open source drivers, there are a few holdouts. The kernel community wants to send a clear signal to these vendors as well as prevent any future vendors from following the closed source path and preventing their uses from getting all the benefits of Linux’s open development model.

More than 135 people have signed the statement, which can be read here

Linux Foundation Reports Highlights from Annual Collaboration Summit

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:54:17 +0000

Linux Foundation Reports Highlights from Annual Collaboration Summit

More than 300 Linux and open source leaders advance the operating system at Summit

SAN FRANCISCO – April 24, 2008 — The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced highlights resulting from its second Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, which was hosted by IBM in Austin, Texas earlier this month. Attendance at this year’s Summit grew more than 30 percent over last year’s and included leaders from the kernel community, desktop, industry and end users communities.

“The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is the only place where key leaders and stakeholders in Linux come together to discuss the most important issues facing the operating system,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “This year we saw breakthroughs in driver support for the desktop, IPV6 compliance and virtualization. We feel it’s an important venue for solving cross-industry and cross-community issues.”

Highlights from the LF Collaboration Summit include:

• OEMs rally behind Open Source Drivers. One-third of the Summit attendees participated in the Linux Foundation’s fifth Desktop Architects’ Meeting. In Austin, leading computer manufacturers Dell, HP, Lenovo, and many others met with the desktop community to collaborate and optimize Linux for their new desktop and ultra-mobile products. A key result from the meeting was that these OEM vendors reported that they will encourage chipset and other component vendors to provide open source drivers for Linux. The companies announced on stage that they will now include wording in their hardware procurement processes to “strongly encourage” the delivery of open source drivers for transparent integration into the Linux kernel. Asustek Computer, Inc., manufacturer of the popular Linux-based Eee PC, is also encouraging its hardware suppliers to provide open source drivers for Linux. VIA Technology also announced the opening of their drivers and better support for the open source community at the Summit.

• New Driver Backporting Workgroup. Canonical, Novell, Red Hat, and others have formed this new workgroup to speed the process for porting new drivers to older versions Linux. This effort is expected to help solve one of the most important commercial issues for companies that ship Linux by improving time-to-market and enabling the automated installation of the newest drivers on older versions of Linux. While Linux driver support is the broadest in the world, many commercial companies use older versions of Linux in their products that don’t include the latest driver support. The Driver Backporting Workgroup will address this issue by implementing a process that simplifies packaging, distribution and installation of drivers, including matching the right drivers with different hardware components. For more details on the Workgroup, please visit: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Driver_Backport_Charter

• Next-generation Internet Compliance (IPv6). At last year’s Summit, IBM identified the IPv6 protocols as an area where immediate collaboration was required in order for Linux to be primed for the next-generation of the Internet. This is important because of government purchasing requirements stipulating this support. Since then, Bull, IBM, HP, Nokia-Siemens, Novell and Red Hat have made contributions and at this year’s Summit in Austin, the IPv6 work group was able to announce that Linux is IPv6 compliant to DoD mandated requirements. While there is still work to do to address the additional emerging requirements, this is a concrete example of vendors coming together at the Collaboration Summit to solve a pressing issue for Linux.

• Linux on Mobile Devices. The Summit hosted for the first time representatives of all the mobile Linux platforms — Android, Moblin.org, GNOME Mobile, and LiMo – on one stage. The groups agreed on the enormous value of using the Linux kernel to efficiently manage any hardware, but shared their differing views on which higher-level software components provide the best environment for developer applications. Representatives from the platforms evaluated the potential of using the multi-million dollar database and test infrastructure of the Linux Foundation’s Linux Standard Base (LSB), which is available under an open source license as an application and device compliance solution.

• Virtualization Mini-Summit. At the Summit, leaders from the various virtualization projects (Xen, KVM, lguest, VMware, qemu and others) met to solve issues and collaborate on common objectives. This included work on interfaces, qemu and the lack of upstream interest in x86 virtualization specific patches. The result of this meeting will be enhancements to the virtualization capabilities of Linux.

Also at the Summit, IDC’s Vice President of Research, Al Gillen, presented a new IDC White Paper titled The Role of Linux Servers in Commercial Workloads. The white paper, sponsored by The Linux Foundation, outlines the state of the Linux server market and can be downloaded at: http://www.linux-foundation.org/publications/IDC_Workloads.pdf.

Video interviews with Linux and open source leaders at the LF Collaboration Summit will be available soon on the Linux Foundation events site at https://www.linux-foundation.org/events/. In addition, real-time video was taken directly from the Summit and is available at YouTube. See short takes with Google’s Jeremy Allison, The 451 Group’s Raven Zachary, Hyperic’s Javier Soltero and others at www.youtube.com/thelinuxfoundation.

The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is heralded as the only place where Linux community developers, distribution and system vendors, ISVs, and end users meet face-to-face and collaborate. While there are a variety of industry and developer conferences, the Summit is the only one to bridge the worlds of community and industry, while allowing end users to access and influence these two important groups. It is designed to accelerate collaboration and problem solving in the Linux community by bringing key stakeholders together in a neutral setting.

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The Linux Foundation’s Annual Collaboration Summit Kicks Off

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:54:31 +0000

The Linux Foundation’s Annual Collaboration Summit Kicks Off

Linux and open source leaders work together on next steps for the operating system

Austin, Texas – April 8, 2008 — The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today will kick off its annual Collaboration Summit. The brightest minds in the Linux server, desktop and mobile communities, among others, will gather at the UT Super Computing Center in Austin, Texas to determine how to advance the operating system in the year ahead.

Keynotes and panels will address some of the following topics:

What are the technology trends and the economics driving the Linux desktop in new low cost PC’s? Find out directly from AMD, Asus, Dell, Everex, HP, Intel, Lenovo, TI, and more.

What is the “M” commitment to the “L” in LAMP after the Sun acquisition of MySQL? Find out from Marten Mikos, SVP, Database Group, Sun Microsystems.

When am I going to get my hands on a Linux phone? Find out from Google’s OHA, the LiMo Foundation, OpenMoko, and others. This is the first time Google’s OHA and the LiMo Foundation are sharing a stage.

Where is Red Hat headed? Find out from the CTO of Red Hat Brian Stephens.

Also at the Summit today, IDC Vice President of Research, Al Gillen, will present a new IDC White Paper titled The Role of Linux Servers in Commercial Workloads. The white paper, sponsored by The Linux Foundation, outlines the state of the Linux server market and considers the increasing shift in Linux deployments from infrastructure-oriented workloads to mainstream business-oriented workloads. It predicts significant growth and strong long-term prospects, with the overall Linux ecosystem spend increasing from $21 billion in 2007 to nearly $50 billion in 2011.

The IDC paper can be downloaded at: http://www.linux-foundation.org/publications/IDC_Workloads.pdf.

“The Linux market is expanding, just as the workloads for Linux deployments are expanding. We will work with the community and industry over the next three days and into the rest of the year on how to fuel this growth,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation.

Other keynotes and panels to be delivered today will come from Linux kernel developers and representatives at Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Oracle, Red Hat, and Via Technology, among others.

The Summit is heralded as the only place where Linux community developers, distribution and system vendors, ISVs, and end users meet face-to-face and collaborate. While there are a variety of industry and developer conferences, the LF Collaboration Summit is the only one to bridge the worlds of community and industry, while allowing end users to access and influence these two important groups. It is designed to accelerate collaboration and problem solving in the Linux community by bringing key stakeholders together in a neutral setting.

Linux Foundation Publishes Study on Linux Development Statistics: Who Writes Linux and Who Supports It

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:14:52 +0000

Linux Foundation Publishes Study on Linux Development Statistics: Who Writes Linux and Who Supports It

A close look at Linux kernel development process reveals the number of Linux kernel developers has tripled over the last three years

SAN FRANCISCO – April 1, 2008 — The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced it is publishing a new report written by kernel developers Jonathan Corbet and Greg Kroah-Hartman, and LF Director of Marketing Amanda McPherson.

The report titled “Linux Kernel Development: How Fast is it Going, Who is doing it and Who is Sponsoring it?” is available today at https://www.linux-foundation.org/publications/linuxkerneldevelopment.php. The paper finds that over the last three years the number of developers contributing to the kernel has tripled and that there has been a significant increase in the number of companies supporting kernel development.

Even though Linux has achieved near-ubiquity as a technology platform powering Internet applications, corporate servers, embedded and mobile devices and desktops, mainstream users know very little about how Linux is actually developed. This community paper exposes those dynamics and describes a large and distributed developer and corporate community that supports the expansion and innovation of the Linux kernel. The Linux kernel has become a common resource developed on a massive scale by companies who are fierce competitors in other areas.

Corbet and Kroah-Hartman, key kernel developers themselves and members of the Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board (TAB), reviewed nearly three years of kernel history representing Linux releases 2.6.11 through 2.6.24. The report goes into detail on how the Linux development process works, including who is contributing, how often and why.

Highlights include:

• Who is Writing Linux?
o Every Linux kernel is being developed by nearly 1,000 developers working for more than 100 different corporations. This is the foundation for the largest distributed software development project in the world.
o Since 2005, the number of active kernel developers has tripled, reflecting the growing importance of Linux in the embedded systems, server, and desktop markets.
o Between 70 and 95 percent of those developers are being paid for their work, dispelling the “hobbyist” myth present from the start of open source development.

• Who is Sponsoring Linux?
o More than 70 percent of total contributions to the kernel come from developers working at a range of companies including IBM, Intel, The Linux Foundation, MIPS Technology, MontaVista, Movial, NetApp, Novell and Red Hat. These companies, and many others, find that by improving the kernel they have a competitive edge in their markets.

• How Fast is Linux Developed and Released?
o An average of 3,621 lines of code are added to the kernel tree every day, and a new kernel is released approximately every 2.7 months.
o The kernel, since 2005, has been growing at a steady state of 10 percent per year.

“Never before in the history of computing have there been so many companies, users and developers united behind one project, specifically one that has seen so much commercial success,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “This rate of innovation is unsurpassed in software. We’re pleased to publish this valuable community content from members of our Technical Advisory Board.”

The Linux Foundation’s TAB is comprised of leading Linux developers who advise the LF on technical requirements and issues important to the kernel community. Kernel community members James Bottomley, Jonathan Corbet, Dave Jones, Christoph Lameter, Ted Ts’o, Chris Wright, and others will participate in a panel on the State of Linux at the LF’s Collaboration Summit next week. For more information on the Summit, please visit: https://www.linux-foundation.org/events/collaboration.

Jonathan Corbet is also the editor of Linux information source LWN.net and maintains the Linux Foundation’s Linux Weather Forecast.

Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Novell Fellow, working for the SuSE labs division of the company. He is also the Linux kernel maintainer for the PCI, USB, driver core, debugfs, kref, kobject, and the sysfs kernel subsystems, and leads the Linux Driver Project: www.linuxdriverproject.org.

Amanda McPherson is director of marketing at the LF and leads its promote and community-relations activities.

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Adobe Joins Linux Foundation with Focus on Linux for Web 2.0 Applications

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:57:37 +0000

Adobe Joins Linux Foundation with Focus on Linux for Web 2.0 Applications

SAN FRANCISCO, March 31, 2008 – The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Adobe Systems Incorporated is joining the Foundation. Adobe is joining the LF to collaborate on the advancement of Linux as a leading platform for rich Internet applications (RIA) and Web 2.0 technologies.

“Adobe’s decision to join the LF is a natural extension of its commitment to open standards and open source, which demonstrates its leadership and foresight in the software industry,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “Adobe’s membership will contribute to our goal of increasing even more application development on Linux with a specific emphasis on Web 2.0 applications.”

“Adobe delivers key RIA technologies for Linux users, such as Adobe® Flash® Player and now Adobe AIR™, to deploy RIAs in the browser and on the desktop,” said David McAllister, director of standards and open source at Adobe. “The Linux Foundation is a valuable resource, providing a forum where we can work with the community to ensure Adobe RIA technologies are compatible across the Linux software platform.”

Today, application development is increasing on the Internet, where Linux is the platform of choice for Amazon, Facebook, Google, and many others. The Linux development community offers an active, collaborative environment where software developers can increase their innovation related to new web-based technologies and opportunities.

Adobe will join other LF members at the Linux Foundation’s Annual Collaboration Summit next week in Austin, TX. The Collaboration Summit, which included more than 230 leaders from the Linux community during its debut year in 2007, is designed to accelerate collaboration and problem solving by bringing together key stakeholders together in a neutral setting. To apply for registration, please visit: https://www.linux-foundation.org/events/collaboration.

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