LinuxCon North America 2015
Linux Core
The home turf of Microsoft was invaded by Linux enthusiasts for three days of keynotes, talks, and community.
LinuxCon North America [1] met from August 17 to 19 in Seattle, Washington. The event kicked off in typical fashion, with Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation sharing a video, "Distributed Genius: Advancing the Growth of Linux," that showcased how Linux has popularized the culture of collaboration that "can change the world."
In the past few years, the Linux Foundation (LF) has become much bigger than just a body to sponsor the work of core kernel developers like Linus Torvalds. It is now home to many other projects, and the number continues to grow. Zemlin said that in the last few months LF has launched some big projects, including the Node.js Foundation, R Consortium, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, The Open Container Initiative, "… and we are just getting started." In his presentation, he announced two new projects: Kinetic Open Storage, which is backed by Seagate, and the IO Visor project, which aims to advance modern I/O in networking applications.
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