OSDL Desktop Linux Group Gets Ready for Busy Month

Hi Jonathan, 

OSDL's Desktop Linux working group is preparing for a busy month with its panel at next week's
LinuxWorld Boston conference and a number of Summits dedicated to printing, power management and
wireless scheduled throughout April. Details are below. 

Best regards

Jennifer

Jennifer Cloer
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jennifer@pageonepr.com

OSDL Working Group to Discuss Linux Desktop Momentum at LinuxWorld Boston

BEAVERTON, Ore., March 30, 2006 - The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) today announced that
members of its Desktop Linux (DTL) working group will lead an interactive panel discussion on the
increasing evolution of Linux from server to desktop at the LinuxWorld East conference in Boston.
The panel, "The State of the Linux Desktop," is scheduled to take place on April 4, 2006 at 2:30
p.m. ET in room 104C.

OSDL is a global consortium charged with accelerating the adoption of Linux and open source
technologies. 

The DTL panel will focus on Linux desktop markets, challenges to adoption and the desktop Linux
community. The moderator is Steven Vaughan-Nichols of Ziff Davis and panelists include OSDL DTL
working group members Waldo Bastian, staff engineer at Intel; Jonathan Blanford of Red Hat and
GNOME; John Cherry, DTL initiative manager, OSDL; Guy Lunardi, desktop architect at Novell; Laurent
Gharda, chief operating officer at Open Country; Greg Kelleher, senior program manager for
worldwide Linux desktop strategy at IBM; and Steven McDowell, division manager, emerging
technology, at AMD. 

"The desktop Linux community and vendors have successfully come together and are increasingly
making progress in removing barriers to desktop Linux adoption for users," said Stuart Cohen, CEO
of OSDL. "This collaboration has sparked a flurry of activity, and OSDL's Desktop Linux working
group is expected to share the most recent findings and milestones that have resulted over the last
three months at today's panel." 

Linux on the desktop is making its way into specific enterprise market segments including the fixed
function and technical and transactional workstation markets. Success is being attributed to
platform stability, low licensing costs, freedom in product support and well defined application
stacks to solve purpose driven product offerings. The latest DTL efforts, most specifically the
Portland Project, build on these achievements to improve interoperability issues for Independent
Software Vendors (ISVs) whose applications must work regardless of Linux distributor or desktop
environment. This fundamental building block is expected to give way to a strong open source
application suite for the Linux desktop, which is in high demand. 

"There is sincere interest in sharing the work and the rewards of building common interfaces for
Desktop Linux," said Waldo Bastian, Linux client architect at Intel. "The Portland Project aims to
establish a set of common interfaces this year, and OSDL has brought the right folks to the table."

OSDL's DTL this month is also hosting a variety of Desktop Linux meetings that focus largely on
open source drivers:
 	Desktop Linux Wireless Summit: April 6   7, 2006 in Portland, Ore.

 	Desktop Linux Printing Summit: April 10   12, 2006 in Atlanta, Ga.

 	Desktop Linux Power Management Summit: April 13   14, 2006 in San Jose, Calif. 
In May, the OSDL DTL will reconvene with the Linux development community to build on these summits
and to address other desktop opportunities:

 	Desktop Architects Meeting: May 8   9, 2006 in Frankfurt, Germany.

For more information on these events, please visit:
http://www.osdl.org/lab_activities/desktop_linux.

About Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) 
OSDL   sponsor of Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel - is dedicated to accelerating
the growth and adoption of Linux-based operating systems in the enterprise. Founded in 2000 and
supported by a global consortium of major Linux customers and IT industry leaders, OSDL is a
nonprofit organization that provides state-of-the-art computing and test facilities available to
developers around the world. With offices in China, Europe, Japan and the United States, OSDL
sponsors legal and development projects to advance open source software as well as initiatives for
Linux systems in telecommunications, in the data center and on enterprise desktops. Visit OSDL on
the Web at http://www.osdl.org/.

OSDL is a trademark of Open Source Development Labs, Inc. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective holders.

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Jennifer Cloer for OSDL
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