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  • Of Linux Laptops, Open Source and Hawaiian Food

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    In the last two weeks I’ve had the opportunity to participate in two podcasts.  The first was the wild and wacky Lunduke & Whatnot (with Matt) show where System76 founder CEO, Carl Richell and I talked with our hosts about pre-loaded Linux laptops.   In the second, which was recorded last week at SpringOne platform, Michael Cote hosts…

  • Dell and Sputnik go to OSCON

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    Next week, myself, Michael Cote and a whole other bunch of Dell folk will be heading out to Portland for the 15th annual OSCON-ana-polooza.  We will have two talks that you might want to check out: Connecting the client to the cloud  – The Sputnik Story  07/24/2013 11:30am Must Haves for your Cloud Toolbox: Driving…

  • Sun’s Chief Open Source Officer’s new Gig

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    Last but not least in my series of interviews from last month’s Cloud Summit at OSCON I present to you my conversation with Simon Phipps.  Simon, who until earlier this year was the chief Open Source officer at Sun Microsystems, recently joined the start-up ForgeRock as their chief strategy officer.  Here is what Simon says:…

  • Mark Shuttleworth on the Cloud, Ubuntu on Dell and more

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    Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the head of Canonical, the commercial entity behind the popular linux distribution, is currently making his rounds in the States.  Yesterday he was quite busy,  taking the stage at both the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco as well as at  LinuxCon up in Portland Oregon. Today he popped…