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Welcome Windows 8 to a Post-Desktop WorldJim Zemlin
A lot has changed in the three years since the last major Windows announcement. Netbooks were on the rise. The iPad wouldn’t be introduced for another six months and Nokia still had the lead for most smartphone sales in the world. Only 172 million smartphones were sold in 2009 vs. an estimated 146 million units in just one quarter of this year. Without wide adoption of tablets or smartphones, Microsoft still dominated the world of personal computing. Linux, while popular in the server room, was virtually non-existent in consumer products, except for its brief rise in netbooks.

Individuals: Join Linux Foundation Before Halloween and Receive 1/2 Off LinuxCon BarcelonaAmanda McPherson

Individual membership is one of the most important programs we host at The Linux Foundation. It gives anyone the opportunity to support Linux and its creator Linus Torvalds, among other important activities. It also comes with a variety of perks like a personalized Linux.com email address (mailto:you@linux.comyou@linux.com) and employee purchase pricing from Dell, HP and Lenovo.

LinuxCon Europe Q&A: When the Cloud Model Doesn't FitJennifer Cloer
LinuxCon Europe is approaching fast. We'll be gathering in Barcelona, Spain November 5-7, 2012 to help developers, SysAdmins and business executives connect and collaborate while having a great time. One of this year's keynote spakers is Dave Engberg, CTO at Evernote. He'll be sharing a story with LinuxCon attendees about how his company designed a a system for millions of users with Linux and open source best practices that why it didn't fit the cloud model. Here he shares with us more details about what we can expect from his keynote, as well as his thoughts on cloud computing and collaborative development.

Open Source Cloud News Roundup: Week of Oct. 22Libby Clark
This week's top open source cloud headlines raised a few interesting questions. Does OpenStack need a Linus Torvalds? And can Eucalyptus be the next billion-dollar open source company? Announcements from Rackspace and OpenNebula are also featured, along with an inside look at Cisco's OpenStack Edition.

Google TV Just One Option in New Range of Android TV PlayersEric Brown
Until recently, most Android-based TV products have used the Google TV platform. But lately we've seen an explosion of low-cost media players designed to access the web and run Android apps on TV with plain old Android.

The People Who Support Linux: A College Student By Day, Red Hat Developer By (Late) NightLibby Clark
Meet new Linux Foundation indvidual member and Linux developer Sam Kottler, a sophomore at Wheaton College and a full-time employee at Red Hat where he works on The Foreman project.

John Mark Walker: 5 Reasons You Should Come to the Gluster WorkshopJohn Mark Walker
As part of Red Hat's efforts to expand the usage of GlusterFS and grow the Gluster community globally, they created workshops for community members to learn more about GlusterFS, and the LinuxCon Europe workshop is shaping up to be the best one yet - by far.

Follow Red Hat's Lead to be the Next Billion-Dollar Open Source CompanyKatherine Noyes
Ever since it was apparent that Red Hat would become the first billion-dollar Linux company, fans of free and open source software have held the company up as the poster child for Linux's business success. But the advent of cloud computing has brought a new ubiquity to Linux and open source technologies and new challenges for Red Hat.

An Introduction to Full Virtualization With Xen (Part 1)George Dunlap
In part one of this two-part series, Citrix's George Dunlap gives a general introduction to virtualization and to paravirtualization, Xen's unique contribution to the field, and the advent of hardware virtualization extensions (HVM). It also introduces the idea of adding paravirtualized drivers for disk and network.

30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: H. Peter AnvinJennifer Cloer
This week, the 20th week in our 30-week series profiling Linux kernel developers, we talk to H. Peter Anvin. His Linux story starts in 1992 and involves a hospital stay, stolen OS/2 manuals and a computer hardware order made by pay phone.

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Hortonworks: Why the Open Cloud Benefits Apache Hadoop

Opens source data processing platform Apache Hadoop works on the cloud for a lot of the same reasons enterprises are adopting the cloud, in general, says Jim Walker, director of product marketing at Hortonworks, in this interview recorded at OSCON in July. He also discusses the open source work behind Hadoop and the benefits of the open source cloud.

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