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New Paper: How Engineering Leaders Can Use the Yocto Project to Solve Complex Problems

By Amanda McPherson - May 23, 2013 - 7:42am

Last month we held the 7th Annual Collaboration Summit and as usual, there was a lot of interest in The Yocto Project.

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Samsung Talks About Its Aggressive Linux Talent Recruitment Strategy

By Jennifer Cloer - May 22, 2013 - 6:41am
I recently spoke to Samsung's Ibrahim Haddad who is the head of the company's Open Source Group in Silicon Valley. He is leading efforts to find the best Linux and open source sofware talent to help Samsung maintain its market position and shares with us why this is a priority for the company, how they're finding this talent and what they're doing to attract and retain open source developers.
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Is the Instrument Panel the Next Target for Open Source Software in Cars?

By Libby Clark - May 20, 2013 - 1:00pm

The In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) System has received much of the focus from open source software initiatives in the automotive industry so far with the Automotive Grade Linux working group and the GENIVI alliance. But the instrument panel, which shares many technologies with IVI, is also ripe for development with Linux.

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5 Reasons Infotainment is the First Target for Open Source Software in Cars

By Libby Clark - May 17, 2013 - 8:58am

The In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) System is the most complex electronic system in the car.  It collects data from all of the car’s sensors and integrates functions as diverse as navigation, climate control, media playback, cellphone connectivity and more.

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Updated history of the 2.6.16-stable kernel

By Greg KH - May 17, 2013 - 8:34am

A few years ago, I gave a history of the 2.6.32 stable kernel, and mentioned the previous stable kernels as well. I'd like to apologize for not acknowledging the work of Adrian Bunk in maintaining the 2.6.16 stable kernel for 2 years after I gave up on it, allowing it to be used by many people for a very long time.

I've updated the previous post with this information in it at the bottom, for the archives. Again, many apologies, I never meant to ignore the work of this developer.

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On the Job with a Linux Foundation Systems Administrator

By Libby Clark - May 16, 2013 - 7:00am

If you’ve ever dreamed of working directly with Linux creator Linus Torvalds, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Ted T’so or any of the other Linux luminaries, you could work your way up through the ranks of kernel developers submitting patches and fixing bugs.  Or you could work as a systems administrator on The Linux Foundation’s IT team, managing the servers that they use every day to build the largest collaborative software development project in the world.

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Q&A: ownCloud Provides Secure File Sharing for the Enterprise

By Libby Clark - May 14, 2013 - 6:30am

File storage and sharing using consumer-oriented cloud services can be a security problem for companies that want to avoid sensitive data leaks. ownCloud aims to solve the issue by offering commercial cloud services installed within a company's own datacenter. Their open source software is built on Linux and most often deployed on Linux by enterprise customers, said Markus Rex, CTO of ownCloud, via email.

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The 3.10 merge window closes

By Jonathan Corbet - May 12, 2013 - 6:30am

Linus Torvalds made a Mother's Day gift to the world in the form of the 3.10-rc1 kernel prepatch. With this release, the merge window for the 3.10 development cycle has closed, so we know which features to expect this time around.

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Video: Open Cloud Conversation Moves Beyond the API

By Libby Clark - May 9, 2013 - 7:14am

The open source cloud discussion has noticeably shifted over the past year, judging by the Live Linux Q&A video chat held Tuesday on the Linux Foundation’s Google+ page.

One big debate at the CloudOpen conference last year, for example, centered on whether the industry needed an open source alternative to the Amazon Web Services API or should simply accept it as the de facto standard for cloud applications.

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Join Us For the KVM End User Technical Summit at the New York Stock Exchange

By Amanda McPherson - May 7, 2013 - 11:44am

KVM and open virtualization are being rapidly adopted as end users look for lower-cost, enterprise hypervisors. One the major use cases for KVM is to virtualize and consolidate Linux workloads, and the pre-integration of KVM in major Linux distributions makes it easy for Linux enterprise endusers to adopt KVM. 

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