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By Alex Handy
April 13, 2009 — 
Collaboration is the soul of open source. At the Linux Foundation's annual Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, which ended last Friday, the organization unveiled new collaboration tools hosted on its website for forming and maintaining workgroups to tackle the problems that remain on Linux's horizon.

Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, said that the new workgroup tools were designed “for collaboration between vendors, users and developers. You go to Linuxfoundation.org and register for an account, then request access to a particular workgroup. You can have private conversations within your group and share documents from one group to another group,” he said.

Those workgroups are already forming around areas where Linux needs improvement. Top among those areas are energy management, handling SSD storage devices, and improving packaging systems for cross-distribution use.

During the course of the Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit, numerous talks were held focusing on specific Linux use cases. Of particular interest were the Moblin discussions. Only a week before the Collaboration Summit, Intel handed over its mobile Linux distribution to the Linux Foundation. The non-profit has since taken over hosting duties for the Moblin project.

Other hot topics at the Summit were virtualization and desktop Linux. For the virtualization crowd, Zemlin said that, moving forward, the Linux Foundation is encouraging vendors and developers to standardize on KVM, not Xen.

As for desktop Linux, the consensus of those in attendance was that there was still a long way to go before Linux would be embraced as an alternative to Windows in both home and enterprise desktops.


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