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Free Resource: How to Give a Great Tech Talk Tutorial at CollabSummit

By Amanda McPherson - March 26, 2013 - 8:48am

As the head curator for content at Linux Foundation events, I work with over 500 speakers a year on technical talks. Universally the people chosen to speak at our events have amazing technical knowledge. They know their stuff. But the actual skill in speaking, delivering an engaging and hopefully entertaining talk to an audience, is sometimes harder to come by. 

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Intro to Real-Time Linux for Embedded Developers

By Libby Clark - March 21, 2013 - 8:48am

When embedded projects call for for a real-time operating system, Linux developers often turn to PREEMPT-RT, the real-time kernel patch, to get it done.

“The PREEMPT_RT patch (aka the -rt patch or RT patch) makes Linux into a real-time system,” said Steven Rostedt, a Linux kernel developer at Red Hat and maintainer of the stable version of the real-time Linux kernel patch.

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Jaguar Land Rover Seeks Automotive Leadership With Linux

By Libby Clark - March 15, 2013 - 3:08pm

The automotive industry is undergoing a major technological shift and Jaguar Land Rover is at the forefront. The UK-based JLR has embraced Linux as the operating system underlying its next generation In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems. The company has also taken a leadership role in advocating for open source development within the automotive industry.

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How to Choose an Embedded Linux Operating System, Part 2

By Libby Clark - March 15, 2013 - 12:37pm

Embedded Linux is hard to define, but at least we know now that Linux pros say Android is not embedded Linux.  (See part 1 in this series, Android vs. Embedded Linux and this week’s Q&A with Mentor Graphics’ John Cherry.) That doesn’t mean, however, that Android isn’t useful in some embedded projects.

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Q&A with Mentor Graphics’ John Cherry: Android or Embedded Linux?

By Libby Clark - March 8, 2013 - 3:29pm

As we discovered last week, Linux pros don’t think Android is the new embedded Linux. Android does, however, have a lot of great uses in embedded projects and many features that even hard core embedded Linux developers can envy.

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Intro to Embedded Linux Part 1: Defining Android vs. Embedded Linux

By Libby Clark - March 6, 2013 - 4:39pm

Is Android the new embedded Linux? Of course not, said Karim Yaghmour, OperSys founder, during the panel discussion on this topic at the Android Builders Summit last month in San Francisco.  It was a question meant to spur discussion, he said, that’s all.

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Mandriva 'Back in the Game' With Enterprise Software

By Libby Clark - March 1, 2013 - 4:29pm

Though Mandriva has been a popular Linux desktop distribution for many years, the company early last year found itself in a tough spot financially. Since then, Mandriva has undergone some major changes, adopting a new enterprise focus and creating an independent nonprofit foundation to carry on the Mandriva open source community work.

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Contest Winner Bjarne Rosengren Will Follow Tux to LinuxCon New Orleans

By Libby Clark - February 28, 2013 - 11:12am

Embedded developer Bjarne Rosengren has never been to the Southern United States. But he’s got a better idea of the fun that lies ahead at LinuxCon in New Orleans this September – and the chance to go -- thanks to Tux.

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Linux 3.8 is NOT a longterm kernel

By Greg KH - February 27, 2013 - 4:15pm

I said this last week on Google+ when I was at a conference, and needed to get it out there quickly, but as I keep getting emails and other queries about this, I might as make it "official" here. For no other reason that it provides a single place for me to point people at.

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100,000 Facebook Fans Contest Winner: IT Pro Richard Clinker

By Libby Clark - February 27, 2013 - 10:48am

The Linux Foundation’s Facebook page surpassed 100,000 fans this month and to celebrate we awarded one of our most loyal fans with a $100 gift certificate to the Linux.com store and a free pass to LinuxCon North America in New Orleans or LinuxCon Europe in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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