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Survey: Open Source Adoption Rises, Drives Innovation

More than 50 percent of all software purchased within five years will be open source, according to a survey released Monday by a collaboration of 26 open source companies.

This year’s “Future of Open Source Survey” results signal a tipping point for open source software adoption in the enterprise and non-technical industries such as automotive, health care and finance. In the auto industry, for example, 59 percent of the companies surveyed use open source software and 35 percent said they’re evaluating it.

Jennifer Cloer

Big Data, Cloud Knowledge Key in IT Jobs Market

As a global community, we are creating and sharing more information than ever before. And, most of that activity is happening "in the cloud," which is hosted on millions of servers in datacenters located anywhere from the Columbia River Gorge, to the Nevada desert, to the most remote areas of China.

amcpherson

Quotes from the Linux Foundation Enterprise End User Summit

For the past two days, we've held our annual Enterprise End User Summit at the New York Stock Exchange. Besides the fun of ringing the bell during our evening reception, it's been an incredibly valuable event, fueling collaboration between kernel maintainers and enterprise end users who are pushing Linux to its edge.

Here are highlights:

Rudolf Streif

Five ways to rev up Linux for the car industry

Linux is already being adopted by an increasing number of car makers such as GM and Jaguar predominantly for in-vehicle infotainment systems. But much work remains to ensure that Linux is automotive-grade. In this article we will discuss the opportunities for Linux in vehicles and the five requirements that need to be addressed to bring it up to speed.

Where does Linux fit into a car?

Jim Zemlin

What Red Hat Has Done is Worth So Much More Than a Billion

Red Hat is widely expected to crack a billion dollars in revenue in today’s earning call. This achievement will finally put to bed the argument that "nobody can make money with open source." I want to congratulate Red Hat for this incredible achievement. However, I would also like to use this occasion to show that there is significantly more at play here. It isn't just the billion dollars Red Hat is making with open source; there are many more reasons why Linux and open source are fundamental building blocks of the future:

Greg KH

openSUSE Tumbleweed status for the week of March 26, 2012

It's been about a year since I did a status report of what's going on in
the openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo, let me know if you find this actually
useful or not so that I can determine if I should keep it up.

janet

Linux Training for Your New Year’s Resolutions

We’ve scheduled several training classes to help you ring in the New Year.

Jonathan Corbet

The cracking of kernel.org

As has recently been announced on the main kernel.org page, the main kernel.org server (known as “hera”) was recently compromised by an unknown intruder. This person was able to gain “root” access, meaning they had the full run of the system. Speaking as just one of many members of the kernel development community, I can say that this episode is disturbing and embarrassing. But I can also say that there is no need to worry about the integrity of the kernel source or of any other software hosted on the kernel.org systems.

Brian Warner

Looking for a MeeGo job? Looking for a MeeGo developer?

You know what's awesome? Getting paid to work on MeeGo.

You know what's even more awesome? Having a central place where you can post jobs (if you're an employer) and find jobs (if you want to want to do the work).

We've made some changes to the organization of the job board over at the Linux Foundation, specifically highlighting MeeGo jobs. At http://jobs.meego.com, you can post jobs quickly and easily, and those looking for paid MeeGo positions can find them in one place.

Have fun!

Looking for a MeeGo job? Looking for a MeeGo developer?

Linus Torvalds

Glamorous pictures?

The event last weekend was a "no cameras" event, and while we'll have pictures, I don't have them yet.
And I think I'll keep them private when we get them - no need to embarrass the beautiful people any more than we already did.
So to make up for that, here's a glamorous shot from about seventeen years ago that maddog (on the left) found the other day. It's from DECUS, New Orleans, 1994.

Ibrahim Haddad

MeeGo Summer Seminar: Trip Report

The MeeGo Seminar Summer 2010 edition took place on July 26, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. The event was packed. More than 530 registrants, 21 sponsors, 16 speakers, 3 tracks (Business, Technology, Qt+Atom), multiple demos, and the announcement that the GENIVI Alliance has selected MeeGo as its future in-vehicle infotainment center.

Fossbazaar Fossbazaar

Linux Foundation Announces 2010 “We’re Linux” Video Contest: The Linux Super Bowl Ad

“We’re Linux” returns for the second year in a row, aims to surface creative user-generated ads for the popular operating system

SAN FRANCISCO, February 5, 2010 – The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the 2010 “We’re Linux” video contest. The contest seeks to find the best user-generated videos that demonstrate what Linux means to those who use it and inspire others to try it.

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:

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