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 except 2001 and 2007 always occurred in Germany. Linux-Kongress is one of the three major international grass-roots Linux and Open Source conferences in the world. The other two are linux.conf.au and Ottawa Linux Symposium.
The conference is a meeting place for many different types of developers. Kernel developers like Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Theodore Ts'o, Rusty Russell, James Bottomley, user space developers like Kalle Dalheimer and Miguel de Icaza, and Open Source advocates like Eric S. Raymond and Maddog have given talks at this conference.
The focus of Linux-Kongress is development topics, either in kernel or user space. The conference language is English. Nowadays the conference program is preceded by two days of tutorials and normally the conference is organized by GUUG.
In 1999 the conference cooperated with the Storage Management Workshop. In 2000 and 2001 there were several multi-day workshops sponsored by the German Ministry of Science and Education that preceded the conference. Also there has been a good collaboration with NLUUG. In 2009 it was co-located with the OpenSolaris Developer Conference OSDevCon.
| Date | Country | Town | Location | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 31–July 1, 1994 | Germany | Heidelberg | ||
| May 21–23 1995 | Germany | Berlin | ||
| May 23–24 1996 | Germany | Berlin | Haus am Koellnischen Park in Berlin (Tagungszentrum Berlin Mitte) | |
| May 21–23 1997 | Germany | Würzburg | Fortress Marienberg | |
| June 3–6 1998 | Germany | Cologne | Cologne University | |
| September 8–10 1999 | Germany | Augsburg | University of Augsburg | |
| September 7–10 2000 | Germany | Erlangen | Technical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg | Collaboration with NLUUG |
| November 28–30 2001 | Netherlands | Twente | University of Twente | Collaboration with NLUUG |
| September 4–6 2002 | Germany | Cologne | Physics Institutes of the University of Cologne | Collaboration with NLUUG |
| October 14–17 2003 | Germany | Saarbrücken | University of Saarland | |
| September 7–10 2004 | Germany | Erlangen | Technical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg | |
| October 11–14 2005 | Germany | Hamburg | University of Hamburg | |
| September 5–8 2006 | Germany | Nuremberg | Georg Simon Ohm University Nuremberg | |
| September 2–5 2007 | United Kingdom | Cambridge | University Arms Hotel | Merged with LinuxConf.eu |
| October 7–10 2008 | Germany | Hamburg | University of Hamburg | |
| October 27–30 2009 | Germany | Dresden | Dorinth Hotel | Co-located with OSDevCon |
| September 21–24 2010 | Germany | Nuremberg | Georg Simon Ohm University Nuremberg |