Who would have thought. Two years ago Linux on the client had been declared dead, buried and forgotten. Right now there are announcements and promises and demos everywhere. And even some products.

Linux is key to driving innovative new technology as well as business models. It's shaking up the established view of which operating systems should be used for what workloads, while slipping quietly under some very cool new applications.

Kicking off the first ever LinuxCon event. Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, welcomes attendees to the first LinuxCon event.

Cadence, quality, and design were the core themes of Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth's closing keynote talk at LinuxCon. Speaking before a combined session of LinuxCon and the co-located Linux Plumber's Conference, Shuttleworth drilled home the importance of these concepts in the Linux development ecosystem, particularly cadence.