The Linux Kongress is an annual two-day conference of Linux developers from around the world. It has taken place since 1994, when Linux was in the early stages of development, and has almost always occurred in Germany. Annual, from the Latin annuum, or year means pertaining to a year or happening every year. ... Tux, a penguin, is the official Linux mascot. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

The Kongress is a meeting place for many different types of developers. Kernel developers like Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox, user space developers like Kalle Dalheimer and Miguel de Icaza, and Open Source advocates like Eric Raymond have all participated. The word kernel has a a variety of meanings in a several fields. ... Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) is best known for initiating the development of the Linux Operating System. ... Alan Cox (born 1968) is a programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days (1991). ... An operating system usually segregates the available system memory into kernel space and user space. ... Miguel de Icaza, making a parody of Bill Gates photos after Windows 1. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Eric S. Raymond Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957) (often referred to by his initials, ESR) is the author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and the present maintainer of the Jargon File (also known as The New Hackers Dictionary). Though the Jargon File established his original reputation...

The focus of the Kongress is new core technologies, either in kernel or user space. The official language of the Kongress is English. An official language is something that is given a unique status in the countries, states, and other territories. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Recently, the Kongress has been more cooperative with other agencies than in the past. In 1999, the Kongress cooperated with the Storage Mangement Workshop. In 2000 and 2001 there were several multi-day workshops sponsored by the German Ministry of Science and Education that preceded the conference. In 2004, a Netfilter workshop sponsored by Astaro took place before the conference. 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In computer networking, netfilter, along with its companion iptables, are collectively a software extension to the Linux operating system that implements a stateful firewall framework. ...

External links

• website for the Linux Kongress
• About the Linux-Kongress