Articles by The Linux Foundation

Linux Training Scholarship Deadline this Friday

Our Linux training scholarships have become highly competitive over the last few years with more than 1,000 people applying for just five scholarships annually. With the increasing use of Linux resulting in even more demand for Linux...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 8, 2015

The People Who Support Linux: SysAdmin Rigs Raspberry Pi for Racing Pigeons

Pigeon racing season is over now but Robert Threet is still working on troubleshooting the wi-fi connection at the pigeon loft near his home in Indiana. Threet is a systems manager at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, but...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 8, 2015

Learn OpenStack with Linux Foundation Instructor Tim Serewicz

When Tim Serewicz started teaching Linux system administration classes at IBM, his boss thought Linux was “just a fad.” Serewicz has since made a full-time career out of teaching admins the latest technologies in the ever-evolving and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 1, 2015

StackEngine's Boyd Hemphill: How Docker is Changing DevOps

“Docker is Linux containers for mere mortals,” Boyd Hemphill is fond of saying. The Director of Evangelism at container application management startup StackEngine organizes Docker Austin meetups, DevOps Days Austin and Container Days...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 30, 2015

Starting Your IT Career With Linux (A Slide Show)

Interested in starting a new career in IT? Linux is one of the hottest technologies in the market today, with tens of thousands of job openings, and salaries outpacing many other IT specialties. This presentation demonstrates the steps you...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 25, 2015

Announcing Our First SysAdmin Linux Certification Workshop at LinuxCon

Are you looking for a way to jumpstart your IT career or move mid-career to managing Linux systems? The 2015 Linux Jobs Report showed that certification is a great way to do this, with 44 percent of managers reporting they are more likely...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 23, 2015

New Open Container Project Helps Define the Future Data Center

We at The Linux Foundation witness first-hand every day the impact of open source, collaboration and neutral governance on the most promising technologies of our time. It is how most software today is built. Containers are one of the most...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 22, 2015

Learn Cloud Administration With Linux Foundation Instructor Michael Clarkson

Linux Foundation Instructor Michael Clarkson started his IT career on the front lines as a Level I tech, and slowly worked his way up to senior architect through years of trial by fire. When the boss asked him to get some new piece of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 22, 2015

Learn KVM and Linux App Development with Linux Foundation Instructor Mike Day

Linux Foundation instructor Mike Day is an expert in Linux hypervisors and led IBM’s work on the Xen and KVM hypervisors as a Distinguished Engineer. But he came upon his calling almost by accident, having been “thrown into the project...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 17, 2015

Node.js Foundation Opens Up with Industry- and Community-wide Support

Open source communities are often recognized for their constructive debate. There is a commonly held philosophy among open source contributors and developers that the best ideas result from disagreement and smart people discussing the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 16, 2015

Learn Linux Performance and Scripting with Linux Foundation Instructor Frank Edwards

The unending release of new tools for Linux performance management, paired with the demand for increased automation keeps Linux Foundation instructor Frank Edwards on his toes. He’s always updating his Linux Performance Tuning course with...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 11, 2015

Announcing Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon: Core

A year and a half ago, we forged a partnership with the Apache Software Foundation to become the producer of their official ASF events. The ASF has long blazed a trail of innovation in open source and our work with them has yielded results...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 9, 2015

Apple's Decision to Open Source Swift Met with Developer Applause

Apple this week made an announcement worthy of applause and, indeed, the news received the loudest applause of opening day at WWDC. The company said it will open source its programming language Swift and allow developers to compile...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 9, 2015

3 Financial Companies Innovating With Open Source

The financial industry is on the verge of an open source breakthrough, say three companies on the cutting edge of the trend. Traditionally very secretive about their technology, banks, hedge funds and other financial services companies...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 8, 2015

5 Practical Ways for Legal Counsel to Advise Developers on Open Source

As an essential member of an open source compliance program’s advisory board, legal counsel provides numerous services to ensure a company’s products comply with open source copyright and licenses. They provide approval around the use of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 8, 2015

5 Essential Duties of Legal Counsel in an Open Source Compliance Program

Establishing an Open Source Review Board is one key way that companies can help ensure compliance with open source licenses, community norms and requirements (see the previous article, Why Companies That Use Open Source Need a Compliance...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 4, 2015

From Linux User, to Electrical Engineer, to Linux Foundation Instructor: Jan-Simon Möller

Jan-Simon Möller is a consultant and trainer for the Linux Foundation’s training program and holds an electrical engineering degree. But he started out as a home Linux user tinkering with different distributions before moving on to systems...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 2, 2015

Why Companies That Use Open Source Need a Compliance Program

Corporate use of open source software is now the norm with more than 60 percent of companies saying that they build their products with open source software, according to the 2015 Future of Open Source survey. But that same survey also...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 1, 2015

Our Top 10 Favorite Video Games (An Informal Poll)

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Pac-Man last week, we asked Linux Foundation followers on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to nominate their favorite videos games of all time. After seeing your picks in this informal poll, it’s clear why...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 28, 2015

10 Linux Dream Jobs - What's Yours?

What’s your Linux dream job? The Linux Foundation recently asked our Twitter followers to share their ideal Linux careers. Many responded that they’re already living the dream, working as sysadmins and developers (or by simply getting to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 12, 2015

How - and Why - to Speak at Linux Foundation Events

The open source community lives and grows through collaboration. That collaboration is driven online but we’ve witnessed first hand how much can be done and quickened by face-to-face meetings. This is due, in part, to the session speakers...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 5, 2015

Video: 84-Year-Old Volunteer Rebuilds, Sends Linux Laptops to Africa

Retired pastor James Anderson, age 84, has never worked in IT or had any formal computer training, but over the past two years he has rebuilt more than a hundred IBM ThinkPad laptops and sent them to schools and nonprofits in Africa – all...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 5, 2015

A Request for Help from a Linux Community Member in Nepal

At the Linux Foundation we focus many of our programs on personalizing and connecting the talented network of Linux developers and users in all corners of the globe. Everyday we are witness to the Linux community innovating irrespective of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 2, 2015

The Companies That Support Linux: Fox Technologies

Linux has long been regarded as a stable and secure platform for enterprise applications. And the recent explosion of container technology presents yet another way for developers to build securely on top of Linux, says Mark Lambiase, CTO...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 29, 2015

Mesos + DCOS: Mesosphere's Vision for the Open Cloud

Editor’s Note: This article is paid for by Mesosphere as a Platinum-level sponsor of MesosCon, to be held Aug. 20-21, 2015, and was written by Linux.com. Mesosphere last week announced a partnership to integrate Google’s Kubernetes...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 28, 2015