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Welcome Xen as a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project

By Jim Zemlin - April 14, 2013 - 8:07pm

Today we’d like to welcome Xen as the newest Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.

The Xen Project is 10 years-old this week, and its contributors have doubled in the last few years. Xen usage continues to grow and today the project is being deployed in public IaaS environments by some of the world's largest companies. 

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Red Hat's John Mark Walker: The Open Cloud Needs Open Storage

By Libby Clark - April 12, 2013 - 9:53am

Open source leads the data center, says John Mark Walker, Gluster Community leader at Red Hat. OK, what's next? This is the question Walker plans to address in his keynote on Monday at Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, though he hints at the answer in this Q&A.

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My Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit Picks and Details on Live Video Access to Keynotes

By Amanda McPherson - April 11, 2013 - 10:39am

For The Linux Foundation, April is not the cruelest month: it's one of the busiest. Every year, we hold our Collaboration Summit in mid-April to bring together our members, Linux and open source community developers, open source legal minds, and large scale Linux and open source users in an intimate setting.

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Talks by Jaguar Land Rover, Samsung, Adapteva Underscore Industry Trend Toward Collaboration

By Libby Clark - April 11, 2013 - 9:45am

The Linux Foundation's executive director Jim Zemlin sees a new trend in the technology industry toward a collaborative development model. Companies are focusing their research and development efforts outward and participating more in open source projects to accelerate innovation and progress, he said in his opening remarks at The Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit in San Francisco.

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The People Who Support Linux: Tony Awtrey, Linux Developer and Opera Singer

By Libby Clark - April 10, 2013 - 2:22pm

Listening to Tony Awtrey sing Pie Jesu from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem is awe inspiring. The classically trained tenor has a euphonious voice capable of taking your breath away. He’s also a Linux developer and Chief Scientist in the defense industry.

“It's just a rehearsal, but I still like it,” Awtrey said of his performance (see the video, below), which he edited with open source OpenShot software on his Debian Linux desktop.

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OpenDaylight Project Marks New Dawn for Software-Defined Networking

By Jim Zemlin - April 8, 2013 - 6:59am

The Linux Foundation today is announcing a new Collaborative Project: OpenDaylight.

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Live Chat Recap with $99 Linux Supercomputer’s Andreas Olofsson

By Jennifer Cloer - April 4, 2013 - 10:18am

Adapteva plans to release the first batch of its $99 Parallella boards on April 15. That means the company is less than two weeks away from fulfilling its promise of making parallel computing affordable and accessible for everyone.

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HTML5 and Qt, Two Popular Tools for Embedded Linux Application Development

By Libby Clark - April 3, 2013 - 1:52pm

Along with the proliferation of mobile and touchscreen devices, embedded Linux developers have shifted away from building their own operating systems from scratch. Instead they’ve been moving over the past few years toward frameworks such as the Yocto Project, Tizen or Android.

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Law Librarian Creates LibreOffice, gscan2PDF How-to Videos for 100 Linux Tutorials Campaign

By Libby Clark - April 3, 2013 - 8:49am

Library technician John Kerr was one of the first Linux community members to add his how-to videos to the 100 Linux Tutorials Video Campaign this year.  The brief screencasts showcase software that he uses everyday in his job at the county court house library for the Wellington Law Association in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

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Jon Corbet Mulls Linux Kernel Changes

By Libby Clark - April 1, 2013 - 6:00am

Now that the Linux kernel 3.9 merge window is closed, it's safe to say we know what features will be included in the next kernel release. What lies beyond is predictable, still, but will likely hold a surprise or two. That's where the annual Linux kernel weather report comes in.

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