Technologists serving on a panel pertaining to the Linux kernel Thursday morning noted other developments such as Linux Next. "[Linux Next] is designed to b a preview of the next release of the Linux kernel," said Andrew Morton, lead kernel maintainer, in an interview at the event. "It's been running for about a year, it's updated every day," Morton said.

The ext4 file system, which updates the default Linux file system, also was cited. Version 4 is a higher performance file system with features database users have asked for, said Ted Ts'o, chief technology officer at the Linux Foundation. "In general, it just allows for bigger file systems and better performance," Ts'o said. He said he expects ext4 to be featured in the Ubuntu and Fedora Linux systems next month.