 Jim Zemlin | Why Open Source and Operations Matter in Cloud Computing
Earlier this week, IBM announced a cloud computing program offering development and test services for companies and governments. That doesn't sound like much, yet on closer inspection it's a flagstone in the march toward a comprehensive cloud offering at Big Blue. It also demonstrates how operational efficiency is a competitive weapon in our service economy. [...]
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 Amanda McPherson | Can You Design a Better Linux T-shirt than Us?
Today we launched a new initiative at the Linux Foundation: a merchandise store on Linux.com. These aren't logo Ts that you get at every trade show (and probably use to dry your car.) The T-shirts, mugs, stickers and babies gear in the Linux.com store are truly unique and hopefully capture the irreverence, wit and attitude [...]
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 Ted T'so | Fast ext4 fsck times, revisited
Last night I managed to finish up a rather satisfying improvement to ext4’s inode and block allocators. The ext4’s original allocator was actually a bit more simple-minded than ext3’s, in that it didn’t implement the Orlov algorithm to spread out top-level directories for better filesystem aging. It also was buggy in certain [...]
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 Jennifer Cloer | One Year Later: What Do You Think of Linux.com?
This month marks the one-year anniversary of Linux.com in its newest form. A year ago, we built the site based on your rankings of features on IdeaForge. Today, we want to hear how you're using Linux.com and what is most useful. And perhaps even more importantly - what isn't useful. We also want to better [...] |
 Angela Brown | What to Expect at LinuxCon 2010 this August in Boston!
The call for participation and registration opened for LinuxCon today signaling the beginning of planning for the 2nd Annual LinuxCon.
To recap on some of the highlights of LinuxCon 2009, which took place in Portland last September, we brought you:
A fantastic line-up of speakers including Linus Torvalds, Mark Shuttleworth, Bob Sutor, and many more industry luminaries
A [...]
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 Linux Weather Forecast | Built to last
It has now been almost exactly five years since kernel development community tentatively started using the git source code management system with the 2.6.12-rc2 commit. That was an uncertain time; nobody really knew how long it would take the development process to get back up to speed after an abrupt core-tool change. As [...]
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 Linux Foundation Legal | A Big Victory for F/OSS: Jacobsen v. Katzer is Settled
At 9:00 AM EST today, the parties to Jacobsen v. Katz filed a settlement agreement with the U.S. Federal District Court for the Northern District of California. In doing so, they brought an end to one of the most important legal cases to date affecting the continued success of Free and Open Source Software [...]
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