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"I recently got to attend a couple of conferences, both of them the really technical kind where I end up learning things. The first one was the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, in Austin, Texas. I got to spend time learning where Linux is going from some of the people creating it, and to meet a lot of old friends. Jim Zemlin, the head of the Foundation, has a vision of where Linux should go in the next ten years, and it is breathtaking in scope.

"In brief, it's a kinder, gentler version of Linus Torvald's quote that Linux is headed for 'world domination, fast.' But make no mistake, it's just as compelling. Jim and the Foundation are working towards a world with Linux running on the smallest embedded devices to the largest supercomputer clusters, and all possible devices in between..."

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