September 18, 2013
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What it’s like at a LinuxCon? Join me in a virtual walk about the North America LinuxCon 2013 in New Orleans. Credit for all the photographs goes to The Linux Foundation, whose photographers are far better than my out of focus efforts.
Let’s start with the keynote where Valve CEO Gabe Newell, said that proprietary software and closed platforms are gaming’s past and that its future is open and on Linux.
September 17, 2013
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New Orleans: Canonical, in conjunction with Microsoft, announced at Linuxcon that it is bringing its Juju cloud orchestration program to Windows Azure. With it, cloud managers can easily deploy Web and network services on Ubuntu Linux in an Azure cloud.
September 17, 2013
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Startup QSAlpha, developer of advanced digital security solutions for mobile device users, has announced the launch of an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for its new secure Android-based Quasar IV Cipherphone.
Quasar IV Cipherphone: The smartphone with encryption built in. More >
September 17, 2013
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On September 17, IBM will announce at LinuxCon 2013 that it will invest $1 billion in new Linux and open-source technologies for its Power Systems servers. This announcement comes 12 years after IBM famously announced that it was backing the then unproven Linux with a billion-dollar investment.
September 16, 2013
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New Orleans: If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a million times: The reason why desktop Linux hasn’t made it is because of its lack of games. Thanks to Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve and its Steam game platform, that’s not true anymore.
September 16, 2013
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NEW ORLEANS: Who writes Linux? Perhaps the better question is who doesn’t write it?
At LinuxCon, in New Orleans, The Linux Foundation revealed in its latest report “Linux Kernel Development: How Fast It is Going, Who is Doing It, What They Are Doing and Who is Sponsoring It.” that the largest collaborative project in the history of computing is growing larger than ever with over 10,000 developers contributing to Linux in the last eight years.