| LinuxWorld San Francisco unfolds next week |
Aug. 11, 2006
 Desktop Linux vendors will be prominent among companies showcasing their new wares at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2006, to be held Aug. 15 through 18 in San Francisco. Some 15,000 participants are expected to fill the Moscone Convention Center for the event.
The conference this year will focus on five key technology themes: enterprise applications, virtualization, SOA, mobile and embedded Linux, and open source development, a conference spokeswoman said.
This year's event will also celebrate the 15-year anniversary of the Linux kernel, highlighting several industry milestones while envisioning the future of Linux.
Desktop Linux-related companies and project teams, such as Novell/SUSE, Red Hat/Fedora, Canonical/Ubuntu, Xandros, Mandriva, and a number of others will have a major presence at the show. The OSDL's Portland Group, Debian, GNOME Foundation, Pogo Linux, Gentoo Foundation, XOrg, and FreeBSD also will be there.
Although it's been available online for about a month, Linspire will officially introduce Freespire 1.0 at event.
Key speakers
Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford University and founder and chairman of Creative Commons, will open the conference with "Free Culture: What We Need From You," at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 15. Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works.
Lessig will describe the Free Culture movement and the support it needs from Free Software, the struggles and the threats that are largely parallel, and insight into potential solutions.
Peter Levine, CEO of XenSource, a new software vendor in the desktop virtualization market, will speak Aug. 17 about the emerging trend of Linux and virtualization. Levine will describe where the market is now, where he sees it going, and how XenSource is taking an open source approach in attempting to meet market demand.
Motorola vice president Greg Besio will speak about "Creating 'Must-Have' Mobile Experiences With Linux," on Aug. 15. Richard Wirt, general manager of the software and solutions group at Intel, will discuss "Grid Computing In The Enterprise" on Wednesday, Aug. 16.
Non-Desktop Linux-specific companies who will offer exhibits include AMD, Alfresco, Black Duck Software, CA, Dell, HP, Fujitsu, IBM, Ingres, Intel, Levanta, Motorola, Oracle, PalmSource, SAP, Scalix Corporation, SugarCRM, Virtuas Open Source Solutions and others.
Not too late to register
It's not too late to register for the event.
DesktopLinux.com, of course, will publish regular reports from the floor next week.
For additional perspective on next week's LinuxWorld event, be sure to read this informative article by DesktopLinux.com columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols:
LinuxWorld: less fun, more biz
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