Articles by The Linux Foundation

Gear 2 Watch Giveaway at Tizen Developer Conference

Well, that didn’t stay a secret for very long. I’ve gotten a number of questions about this, so just to clear things up – yes, we are planning to give Gear 2 watches to Tizen Developer Conference attendees. If you’ve checked out the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 15, 2014

How to Win Free Tickets to LinuxCon and CloudOpen

We recently sent Tux on a mission: Scope out this year’s LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America host city of Chicago (he did such a good job last year that we sent him out again). The result is the video we’re launching today that details...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 14, 2014

Xen Project Partnership Laid Groundwork for CentOS Variants

The Xen Project community today announced it will be a founding project in the CentOS Project‘s new virtualization special interest group (Virt SIG). The open source hypervisor, a Linux Foundation collaborative project, will thus play a...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 14, 2014

Linux Video of the Week: Limit Theory Game Developer Switches to Linux

Game developer Josh Parnell has released the latest development update on his open-world space simulation and strategy game, Limit Theory. While the graphics are beautiful, this release is particularly notable because Parnell has switched...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 9, 2014

Marmalade CEO: Tizen is App Developers' Entryway to Wearables

Tizen has created an opportunity for app developers to expand into wearable technologies, says Marmalade Technologies CEO, Harvey Elliott. Hundreds of games have already been added to the Tizen app store since Marmalade began offering SDK...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 9, 2014

Start Experimenting with Tizen Says Mobile Developer Leon Anavi

The Linux-based Tizen mobile platform gained momentum earlier this year with Samsung’s announcement of the Galaxy Gear and Gear 2 smartwatches. The platform’s expansion beyond mobile phones into wearables won’t stop there, either, with...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 5, 2014

Interested in Tizen? You need to be here.

It’s that time of year again! This year’s Tizen Developer Conference is June 2-4 in San Francisco. The schedule was just announced, and this is shaping up to be another great conference. As always, the content will be technically oriented...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 1, 2014

Linux Video of the Week: Linux Sucks (But Actually It's Awesome)

Get ready for an entertaining – and possibly infuriating – examination of Linux desktop distributions from the perspective of community insider, writer and commentator, Bryan Lunduke. In his annual “Linux Sucks” presentation at LinuxFest...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 1, 2014

Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste: Core Infrastructure Initiative

Crisis is a difficult thing. In fact, by definition it means a difficult or dangerous situation that needs serious attention. Whether it’s an earthquake, multi-car pileup on the freeway or a massive Internet security bug, many times...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 29, 2014

Linux Training Becomes Embedded Engineer's Plan B

When electrical engineer Manjinder Bains learned in January that his employer’s planned restructuring would put his job at risk, he wasn’t sure what to do. There aren’t a lot of companies in his home town of Sacramento, Calif., that employ...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 29, 2014

Fun Photo: Greg Kroah-Hartman Crowned at the Systemd Hackfest

From left, developers Lennart Poettering, David Strauss, Linux Foundation Fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman, and Kay Sievers were spotted on Google+ wearing silly hats at a recent Systemd hackfest.  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 24, 2014

LinuxCon Keynotes Display How Open Source Methods Are Spreading

You’d expect LinuxCon content to be centered around Linux — and of course the ten tracks we have between LinuxCon and CloudOpen will feature the latest in developer and SysAdmin/DevOps technical topics such as Linux kernel development,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 23, 2014

How LG Took WebOS from Mobile Phones to TVs in Under a Year

When LG acquired the WebOS project from HP early last year, it was a stripped down Linux-based mobile operating system hardly fit to run on any hardware. Then in January, less than a year later, LG debuted its new WebOS smart TVs at the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 21, 2014

Linux Video of the Week: Red Hat CEO Explains Why Enterprises Need Open Infrastructure

Enterprises today are facing the industrialization of IT, in which infrastructure is commoditized and innovation is happening much faster at the application level, said Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst in his 2014 Red Hat Summit...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 18, 2014

Intro to Linux Training Opens Up a World of Commands

This month marks my two-year anniversary of working for the Linux Foundation as the digital content editor for Linux.com. It’s been an amazing two years and I’ve learned a lot about Linux and the open source community. But I still have a...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 15, 2014

Learn How to Contribute to the Linux Kernel, Take the Eudyptula Challenge

If you want to contribute to the Linux kernel but aren’t sure where to start, the Eudyptula Challenge could be a great way to test your programming skills and learn how to participate in the kernel community. The Challenge, which appeared...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 15, 2014

Pivotal Brings PaaS to the Enterprise Through Community Collaboration

Open source in the enterprise has changed dramatically since Pivotal Software’s Head of Product James Watters worked on the OpenSolaris operating system for Sun at the start of the new millenium. Back then companies used open source...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 10, 2014

Windows XP and the Changing Calculus of Technology Choice

One reason technology choices are so difficult is technology is always a work in progress; your one choice has lasting consequences since the technology rarely ever lives on its own, and most good technology is never done — that is unless...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 8, 2014

IBM Promotes Free LF Course

Apr. 8, 2014. IBM today celebrated the 50th anniversary of the mainframe computer. As part of this event, IBM is promoting three upcoming online courses that focus on building enterprise computing talent. One of these is the recently...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 8, 2014

Hilary Mason's ApacheCon Keynote: 3 Ways to Improve Data Science

Data science still has a long way to go in developing systems that solve real-world, human problems, said Hilary Mason, data scientist in residence at Accel Partners, in her keynote at ApacheCon in Denver today. The open source community...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 7, 2014

Answers to Your Q's on Free Intro to Linux Course from edX Twitter Chat

Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin and edX CEO and MIT professor Anant Agarwal answered questions in a live Twitter chat yesterday about the free Intro to Linux training course that will be available on the edX online learning...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 4, 2014

Red Hat's Jason Hibbets: How Open Source Software is Changing City Government

Linux and open source software have demonstrated that collaborative development is a successful model for rapid innovation in the tech sector. Now that model is being applied in other industries from health care, to city government, to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 2, 2014

Free Linux MOOCs: Live Twitter Chat April 3, 8 a.m. PST with edX CEO and Linux Foundation Executive Director

Starting this summer, The Linux Foundation’s Intro to Linux training course will be available for free on edX, the online learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT. The course has already attracted nearly 100,000 registrations since it...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 1, 2014

How Samsung is Bringing Open Source Culture Inside the Firewall

Software companies have long realized the economic and strategic value of using and contributing code to external open source projects. But they’re much slower to understand and apply the same open source methods of collaboration to their...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 27, 2014

Best Quotes from the Linux Kernel Developer Panel

Linux kernel developers Greg Kroah-Hartman, Jens Axboe, Dave Chinner, Matthew Garrett, and Mel Gorman participated in a panel discussion, moderated by LWN Editor Jon Corbet, at Collaboration Summit on Wednesday. Here are some of the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 27, 2014