Speaker - Brian Proffitt

Speaker - Brian Proffitt

Brian Proffitt is Community Manager for the Linux Foundation, with responsibility for content management for Linux.com, the Linux Developer Network, and the LF Video site. He is a long-time advocate of the Linux operating system, having written multiple books and hundreds of articles on how to work with Linux.

What will be covered: Right now Linux is seen by the mainstream media as a fringe server- or desktop-oriented operating system. In reality, Linux users know differently. Linux's most powerful features, its openness and its modularity, have put it on more platforms than any other operating system.

This talk covers why Linux is so successful as a multi-platform OS, from the embedded space with Moblin to the supercomputer space with Red Hat and SUSE Linux. It will also examine the challenges Linux faces for interoperability, and what the community and the Linux Foundation have been doing to address those challenges.