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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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Our New Report: Enterprise Linux Growth Outpaces Windows

By Amanda McPherson - March 27, 2013 - 7:23am

The Linux Foundation today is releasing its annual Enterprise End User Report. Because this is the third year we've surveyed the world's largest enterprises and The Linux Foundation's End User Council about Linux adoption, we're able to share some interesting trending data.

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Live Twitter Q&A Thursday with Adapteva CEO on the $99 Linux Supercomputer

By Libby Clark - March 26, 2013 - 9:30am

Back in October Adapteva wrapped up a successful Kickstarter campaign to build a Raspberry Pi-inspired $99 Linux supercomputer. Next month the company expects the first Parallela boards to be in production -- just in time to show off at The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in San Francisco.

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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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