I will be giving a keynote address at the upcoming O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), July 7-11, in Portland, Oregon.

My talk is titled "Open Source on the Mainstream Desktop" and will take place, Thursday, July 10 at 9:30am.

Bart Decrem, the co-founder of Eazel, has been doing a lot of research, including interviews with two dozen key individuals in the Linux community, as part of a project about the current state of Linux as a client OS, its areas of growing momentum, and obstacles to its broader adoption. Thank you to everyone who has cooperated.

My talk will be based on the findings of the research. Based on what we've seen so far, it's been encouraging to see a lot of progress. Linux on the desktop is moving more quickly outside the U.S. than in it, more quickly in the enterprise space than with consumers, and more quickly in vertical applications in the enterprise like call centers, than as a replacement desktop for the general office workers.