* Updated Study Reveals 10% Increase in Linux Kernel Developers
* Vote For Your Favorite Fake Linus Torvalds
* Last Week to Register for LinuxCon Training - Special 20% Discount
* Watch LinuxCon Keynotes Online for Free
* LinuxCon Kernel Roundtable Moderator Interviewed
* Members' Discounts for LF Events
* VIA Technologies, Inc. Joins Linux Foundation
* Zemlin to Keynote at Open World Forum
* Linux Foundation in the News
* From the Director
==> Updated Study Reveals 10% Increase in Linux Kernel Developers <==
After 16 months, The Linux Foundation has published an update to its April 2008 study on Linux kernel development. The new report, written by original authors and kernel developers Jonathan Corbet and Greg Kroah-Hartman, and the Linux Foundation’s Amanda McPherson, reveals that a net of 2.7 million additional lines of code have been added to the Linux kernel in those 16 months.
The August 2009 Update of “Linux Kernel Development: How Fast is it Going, Who is doing it and Who is Sponsoring it?” illustrates a large and distributed developer and corporate community that supports the expansion and innovation of Linux, by companies which are otherwise fierce competitors in other areas of technology.
The updated study reveals that since April 2008, there has been a 10 percent increase in the number of developers contributing to each kernel release. This level of activity has resulted in an average of 5.45 patches being accepted per hour, an increase of 42 percent since the original study.
To read the results of the study, download the whitepaper at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/whowriteslinux.pdf
==> Vote For Your Favorite Fake Linus Torvalds <==
Taking a page from the popular FakeSteveJobs blog, we've invited four well-known industry and community leaders to guest tweet as if they were the real Linus Torvalds during the weeks leading up to LinuxCon.
These FakeLinusTorvalds (FLTs) will be tweeting live from our Identi.ca (linuxfoundation) and Twitter feeds beginning today, and their identities will be revealed at LinuxCon, directly after the Kernel Panel, featuring the real Linus Torvalds, on September 21, 2009.
Details on the FLTs, which include in-depth bios and a cutting-edge music video, can be found at http://www.linux.com/fakelinustorvalds.
During the final two weeks prior to LinuxCon, we’re inviting you to vote for your favorite FLT at Linux.com. The winner will be chosen based on community vote and will be presented with the “coveted” “Silver Penguin” award on stage at the conference.
Vote for your Fake Linux Torvalds at http://www.linux.com/community/polls/vote-for-your-favorite-flt
For more information about LinuxCon, visit http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon
To register, visit http://events.linuxfoundation.org/component/registrationpro/?func=details&did=1
==> Last Week to Register for LinuxCon Training - Special 20% Discount <==
This is the last week to register for LinuxCon Training. Register now for The Kernel Debugging and Performance Tuning course, which runs Sept 19 & 20, and receive a special 20 percent discount. Enter code LFLT when registering.
To learn more about this and other LF Training courses, visit http://www.linuxfoundation.org/linux-training/schedule.
==> Watch LinuxCon Keynotes Online for Free <==
Because of the tough economic climate and its effect on corporate travel, the Linux Foundation wants to make sure Linux users and developers all over the world can participate in LinuxCon without leaving their home locations.
Now users can watch and participate in LinuxCon keynotes for free by registering at http://streaming.linux-magazin.de/en/program-linuxcon.htm. Additionally, if visitors want to see all three days of conference sessions, they can register for the Live Streaming conference for US$99, which includes access to the archived sessions after the event. Users can sign up for the archived sessions after LinuxCon for US$49.
For more information on the conference video stream and registration, visit http://streaming.linux-magazin.de/en/program-linuxcon.htm.
==> LinuxCon Kernel Roundtable Moderator Interviewed <==
One of the more popular sessions at LinuxCon will be the Linux Kernel Roundtable, featuring several notable kernel developers, including Jonathan Corbet and Linus Torvalds. Moderating the Roundtable is James Bottomley, Distinguished Engineer at Novell, Director of the Linux Foundation and Chair of its Technical Advisory Board. Bottomley is Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, the Linux Voyager port and the 53c700 driver.
Linux.com recently interviewed Bottomley to find out what his goals for the Roundtable are, where he believes the Linux kernel is now, and where it's going.
To read the interview, visit http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/168-brian-proffitt/40311-kernel-improvements-controversies-will-be-focus-of-roundtable
For more information about the Kernel Roundtable, visit http://linuxcon.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/1564
To register for LinuxCon, visit http://events.linuxfoundation.org/component/registrationpro/?func=details&did=1
==> Members' Discounts for LF Events <==
Linux Foundation members have a great last chance to register at a discount for LinuxCon, happening in Portland, Oregon on September 21-23, 2009. Visit the LinuxCon registration site at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/component/registrationpro/?func=details&did=1 and enter code LFLC30 to receive an exclusive 30 percent members' discount.
Next month is our next exciting event, the Japan Linux Symposium (JLS). Co-located with the 2009 Linux Kernel Summit, the JLS is the newest Linux conference in Asia Pacific and it promises to bring together a unique blend of core developers, administrators, users, community managers and industry experts. It is designed not only to encourage collaboration but to support future interaction between Japan and other Asia Pacific countries and the rest of the global Linux community.
To learn more about the JLS, visit http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/japan-linux-symposium. Visit http://events.linuxfoundation.org/component/registrationpro/?func=details&did=14 and enter code JLS15 to receive a 15 percent members' discount.
==> VIA Technologies, Inc. Joins Linux Foundation <==
The Linux Foundation has announced that VIA Technologies, Inc. has become its newest member.
VIA offers highly integrated low power x86 processor platforms that are being adopted in a wide range of netbooks, notebooks, desktops, servers, and embedded devices from leading brand names such as Dell, HP and Lenovo.
VIA is among a growing number of processor platform vendors that recognize the importance of working with the Linux community. By collaborating at the technical and business levels, VIA can ensure its hardware and the technology of its partners are supported in the Linux kernel releases. The company opened its specifications and code and began to adhere to a quarterly release schedule more than a year ago. This move allows open source developers to easily support VIA’s components.
http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/peripherals/43792-via-technologies-inc-joins-linux-foundation
==> Zemlin to Keynote at Open World Forum <==
Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin has been invited to deliver a keynote address at this year's Open World Forum in Paris, France. Co-founded and sponsored by Linux Foundation member Bull, Open World Forum 2009, which will bring together all the key players in the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) ecosystem to cross-fertilize initiatives for innovation and economic growth along the theme "Open Source: At The Heart of the Digital Recovery."
Zemlin's talk, entitled "Moblin, Chrome, Android, Ubuntu, etc: What's the Deal with Linux on the Desktop?", takes a look back at the big moves that drove Linux to dominate the server and super computing markets and how we are seeing similar trends start now in the desktop.
For more information on Open World Forum, scheduled for October 1-2, 2009, visit http://openworldforum.org.
==> Linux Foundation in the News <==
V3.co.uk: Microsoft Could Hand Patents to Linux Firms
The agreement is yet another twist in the ongoing saga between Microsoft and the open-source community. Open-source developers have long complained that Microsoft has not provided enough access to its products as agreed on in its anti-trust settlement. Microsoft, for its part, has made renewed efforts to connect with Linux developers. Earlier this year the company joined forces with the Linux Foundation to overhaul controversial software licensing legislation.
(http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2249112/microsoft-hand-patents-linux)
Computerworld: Who Writes Linux: Big Business
The Linux Foundation has just released a new report on who writes Linux, and guess what? Linux isn't written by lonely nerds hiding out in their parents' basements. It's written by people working for major companies--many of them businesses that you probably don't associate with Linux.
(http://blogs.computerworld.com/14576/who_writes_linux_big_business)
ChannelWeb: Fake Linux Torvalds Set For Web Vitriol Barrage
You've probably heard of Fake Steve Jobs. Now get ready for Fake Linus Torvalds. The Linux Foundation is running a contest in which four different Fake Linus Torvalds will post Twitter messages from the Identi.ca (linuxfoundation) and Twitter feeds (www.twitter.com/linuxfoundation), all in an attempt to portray themselves as the most compelling facsimile to the father of Linux.
(http://www.crn.com/software/219500346)
The Register: Linux Guru: Interface Innovation is the Challenge
Novell distinguished engineer James Bottomley believes Linux desktop environments need a dose of open source ingenuity rather than ape ideas from Windows and OS X. Bottomley, who also wears the hat of Director of the Linux Foundation and chair of its technical advisory board, says the next challenge for Linux as a whole is to take the lead in interface advancements. He described his position today in an interview with Brian Proffitt on the Linux Foundation blog.
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/27/james_bottomley_linuxcon09_interview/)
Wired: Aug. 25, 1991: Kid From Helsinki Foments Linux Revolution
The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit group chartered with the task of promoting Linux and fostering its development, estimates the Linux ecosystem will reach the $50 billion mark by 2011, as the software continues to make inroads on PC desktops, netbooks, servers, mobile phones and embedded devices like TV set-top boxes, GPS units, and media players. Now, the Linux kernel is kept up to date by thousands of programmers from around the world. Most of them are volunteer contributors or work under the sponsorship of corporations like IBM, HP and Intel. Torvalds himself is now sponsored by the Linux Foundation and continues to work on the Linux kernel full-time. In other words, it’s no longer “just a hobby.”
(http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/0825-torvalds-starts-linux)
==> From the Director <==
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal’s Nick Wingfield broke a story on Microsoft selling a group of patents to a third party. The end result of this story is good for Linux, even though it doesn’t placate fears of ongoing attacks by Microsoft. Open Invention Network, working with its members and the Linux Foundation, pulled off a coup, managing to acquire some of the very patents that seem to have been at the heart of recent Microsoft FUD campaigns against Linux. Break out your white hats: the good guys won.
The details are that Microsoft assembled a package of patents “relating to open source” and put them up for sale to patent trolls. Microsoft thought they were selling them to AST, a group that buys patents, offers licenses to its members, and then resells the patents. AST calls this their “catch and release” policy. Microsoft would certainly have known that the likely buyer when AST resold their patents in a few months would be a patent troll that would use the patents to attack non-member Linux companies. Thus, by selling patents that target Linux, Microsoft could help generate fear, uncertainty, and doubt about Linux, without needing to attack the Linux community directly in their own name.
Read more at "Protecting Linux from Microsoft (Yes, Microsoft Got Caught)"
http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/158-jim-zemlin/44327-protecting-linux-from-microsoft-yes-microsoft-got-caught
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