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Keynote: Linus Torvalds in Conversation with Dirk HohndelOpen Source Summit India 20262026-06-16
Linux 7.1 ships as steady incremental progress on a strict 9–10 week release cadence, with the merge window handled as roughly 200 merges in two weeks and a…
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Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk HohndelOpen Source Summit Japan + AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit + Automotive Linux Summit 20252025-12-08
Kernel 6.18 ships as the next LTS after a two week merge window followed by seven weeks of bug fixes in a nine week cadence. Merges average about 12,000…
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Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk HohndelOpen Source Summit Korea 20252025-11-04
Covers concrete claims about kernel evolution: maintenance is the ongoing work after 35-year project status, occasional removal of components (only a handful…
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Keynote: Open MattersOpen Source Summit Europe 20252025-08-25
Argues that personal photos and edits flow into Apple and Google clouds and into an Adobe cloud where proprietary training and ownership obscure who controls…
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Linus Torvalds in Conversation with Dirk HohndelOpen Source Summit Europe 20242024-09-16
Linux ships on a nine‑week cadence with a recent 6.1 release and about 10–15k commits per release, most of them new or fixed hardware support since drivers…
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OSS Keynotes - Day 2 Afternoon SessionsOpen Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference + OSPOCon 20212021-09-27
30 years of Linux history, the kernel stays pragmatic: Rust kernel modules are trialed for safer drivers, a build policy treats new compiler warnings as…
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Keynote: Linus Torvalds in conversation with Dirk HohndelOpen Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 20192019-10-28
Release 5.4 shows a late surge of patches after a quiet start and a weird filesystem change causes platform-specific boot hangs that land in the 5.4 cycle…
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Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in conversation with Dirk Hohndel, VMwareKubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 20192019-06-24
Linux development runs on a tight three‑month cadence with the tree currently at 5.2-rc6, about 1,500 contributors and roughly ~30 million lines of code…
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Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in conversation with Dirk HohndelKubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 20192019-06-24
Announces that Linux follows a roughly three‑month release cadence with 5.2-rc6 arriving unusually large, usually finishing at rc7; each release aggregates…
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Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in conversation with Dirk Hohndel, VPOpen Source Summit North America 20182018-08-29
Kernel development follows a two-week merge window and then a stabilization period; 4.19 suffers multiple hardware speculative-execution bugs (January, May…
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Linus Torvalds in conversation with Dirk HohndelLinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China 20182018-06-25
Release 4.18 goes out after a steady 15‑year process with 418 RC, about 1500 contributors and roughly 100 maintainers, and this cycle removes more lines than…
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Keynote: From Innovation to Production - Dirk Hohndel, VP & Chief Open Source Officer, VMwareKubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 20182018-05-02
Company collaboration with Pivotal and Google packages upstream projects into a supported, easy-to-run product built around Kubernetes-based product, including…
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Keynote: in a Conversation withOpen Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 20172017-10-23
Kernel development uses a two‑week merge window two weeks then weekly release candidates, typically seven RCs and a final release (about every 2.5 months), but…
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Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in conversation with Dirk HohndelLinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China 20172017-06-19
Kernel 4.12 ships as 4.12-rc6 release timing shifts because an embargoed userland security fix forces a Monday-night workaround, showing the weekly release…
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Keynote: Dirk Hohndel, VP, VMware, in Conversation with Linux Creator Linus TorvaldsEmbedded Linux Conference + OpenIoT Summit North America 20172017-02-21
Kernel development runs on a steady 10-week release cadence with code merged when ready rather than pinned to promises, and 4.9 turns out to be the largest…
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Project, Process, Product(ion)Open Source Leadership Summit 20172017-02-14
Open source is not magically free for production: upstream GitHub commits rarely run unchanged at enterprise scale, and getting to production needs explicit…
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Keynote: Dirk Hohndel in conversation with Linux Creator Linus TorvaldsLinuxCon + ContainerCon North America 20162016-08-22
Kernel status note: 4.8 RC3 is a routine release while the 4.9 merge window already contains low level rework; the project grows from ~10,000 lines to 17…
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Linux: Where Are We GoingLinuxCon + CloudOpen Europe 20142014-10-13
Discussion states the kernel is on a rapid merge cadence with roughly 10,000 patches per release from over a thousand contributors, most releases landing on a…
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IoT and Connected DevicesLinuxCon + CloudOpen North America 20142014-08-20
Argues the IoT problem is device fragmentation and data lock‑in, cites device counts of 50 billion to 250 billion and examples like Fitbit talking only to its…
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New FrontiersLinuxCon & CloudOpen North America 20132013-09-16
Intel describes concrete wins: Chrome OS and Android work yields Chromebooks >9 hours battery life and the Chromebook Pixel 2560x1700 screen while shipping…
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QtinUse - MeeGo - a Mobile Ecosystem for Qt DeploymentsQt Developer Days 2010 (Munich)2010-10-11
Claims MeeGo is an open, vendor-neutral Linux stack with a six‑month cadence and imminent MeeGo 1.1 release that brings the touch framework and handset UX…
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Got MeeGo?OSCON 20102010-07-19
Intel and Nokia merge Maemo and Moblin into the MIGO project to produce a unified open-source stack for handsets, tablets, netbooks and in-vehicle systems…
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Intel and Open Source: Innovation and Leadership for Continued GrowthOSCON 20092009-07-20
Company claims netbooks began on Linux with the seven‑inch Eee PC 701 less than two years earlier and delivers concrete work: 5 second boot targets via an…
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