More than 100 sessions ranging from simple tutorials and workshops to deep technical dives and everything in between.
More than 1000 attendees to collaborate with, an opportunity to network with thought leaders in the open source world, and a world class venue at an international city.
Welcome to LinuxCon 2014 North America, the largest conference featuring Linux, taking place in Chicago, August 20 – 22, 2014 at the Sheraton Chicago hotel.
LAS VEGAS—The Facebook-led Open Compute Project has spent the past year building an “open†switch that can boot nearly any type of networking software, giving customers more alternatives to proprietary switch vendors like Cisco.
Intel, Broadcom, Mellanox, and Cumulus Networks jumped on board last November, contributing specifications and software that will bring the project closer to a finished design. They weren’t alone, though: Software-defined networking vendor Big Switch Networks in January donated what it calls Open Network Linux (ONL) to the project.
In an interview with Ars at this week’s Interop conference in Las Vegas, newly appointed Big Switch CEO Douglas Murray explained the company’s reasons for getting involved. As Big Switch noted in its announcement, ONL is “the Linux distribution for bare metal switches that runs underneath our commercial Switch Light OS. ONL’s goal is to give people deploying OCP [Open Compute Project] switches a simplified experience with a standard Linux distribution that comes prepackaged with all of the relevant drivers, loaders, and platform-independent goodness. If ONL is successful and becomes a popular distribution for open network hardware, it will also mean less integration work for hardware and software vendors and thus fewer bugs and other surprises once ONL-based products get to end customers.â€
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SAN FRANCISCO—At its Build developer conference today, Microsoft announced that it was open sourcing a wide array of its .NET libraries and related technologies and creating a group, the .NET Foundation, to oversee the development and stewardship of the open source components.
Perhaps the highlight of the announcement today was that the company will be releasing its Roslyn compiler stack as open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Roslyn includes a C# and Visual Basic.NET compiler, offering what Microsoft calls a “compiler as a service.”
Many—though not all—compilers operate essentially as black boxes. They slurp in source code at the front, and spew out executable code at the back. With Roslyn, Microsoft is taking a different approach. The Roslyn compiler can be used as a library. When it reads a piece of source code, it produces an internal representation that third-party code can then manipulate and examine.
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