Articles by The Linux Foundation

LinuxCon Program Announced Join the Most Technical Mardi Gras Parade In History

I’m pleased to announce the schedules for LinuxCon and CloudOpen happening this September in New Orleans. We had more submissions than ever and narrowing them down was probably the most difficult process we’ve ever had. And yes we will...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 19, 2013

In Memoriam of Seth Vidal

Editor’s Note: The Linux and open source communities unexpectedly lost an amazing person this week. Seth Vidal, a member of Red Hat’s Fedora Project team and a longtime open source software contributor and advocate, died tragically July 8...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 12, 2013

All About the Linux Kernel: Bcache

The 3.10 Linux kernel release late last month brought a raft of new features worth celebrating for Linux developers and sysadmins alike. This release was especially satisfying, though, to kernel developer Kent Overstreet who saw years of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 11, 2013

BusinessWeek Article Shows Android's Growing Ubiquity

The recent BusinessWeek article, “Behind the ‘Internet of Things’ Is Android—and It’s Everywhere,” gives a great window into ways that Android is being utilized and just how easy it is. Read more at Linux Training Staff Blog  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 11, 2013

How to Learn Linux and Share What You Learn: 100 Linux Video Tutorials

One of the best things about Linux is that people share what they learn. It’s a virtuous cycle of knowledge. The Linux Foundation works to provide services, resources and forums in which sharing that knowledge and collaborating to advance...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 9, 2013

Adobe CFF Engine Release Improves Linux, Android Mobile Text Experience

Linux and Android users may have recently noticed that the text on their mobile screens is a bit easier to read. That’s because devices that render fonts using the FreeType open source library now have access to Adobe’s CFF Engine. In...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 8, 2013

Collaborative Projects: Transforming the Way Software is Built

I got involved with Linux and open source in the mid-90s. I had a routine: I would check out LKML, go to bed and wake up in the morning and find thousands of messages from developers around the world innovating and iterating at an...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 8, 2013

Wargaming Mobilizes with Linux and Open Source

Online game developer and publisher Wargaming relies on Linux and open source software to produce and distribute its line of popular military strategy games, says Maksim Melnikau, a solution architect at Wargaming. The growing company...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 3, 2013

3.10 Linux Kernel Development Rate

While working on the latest statistics for the yearly Linux Foundation “Who Writes Linux” paper, I noticed the rate-of-change for the 3.10 kernel release that just happened this weekend: Every year I think we can’t go faster, and every...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 1, 2013

Webinar: Reduce Product Lifecycles with Linux and Yocto Project

This training webinar will outline how the Yocto Project helps engineers tackle a multitude of common challenges when doing embedded development Read more at Linux Training Staff Blog  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 1, 2013

Swift: The Easy Scripting Language for Parallel Computing

Over the next decade, computer scientists anticipate the world’s largest supercomputers will grow to millions of cores running as many as a billion parallel threads. Even personal devices will contain a hundred cores and perform thousands...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 26, 2013

How to Create a sysfs File Correctly

One common Linux kernel driver issue that I see all the time is a driver author attempting to create a sysfs file in their code by doing something like: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 int my_driver_probe(...) { ... retval...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 26, 2013

New Linux Automation Course Trains Sysadmins of the Future

The Linux Foundation is introducing a new Linux training course that focuses purely on the more advanced Linux system administration skills of the future. Read more at Linux Training Staff Blog  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 24, 2013

The People Who Support Linux: 19-Year-Old Aims to be a Kernel Developer

Kieran Grant works in IT support for a financial services company but unabashedly aspires to be a Linux SysAdmin and, someday, a kernel developer. After using and hacking Linux for five years, the 19-year-old from Logan City in Queensland,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 21, 2013

Hardware, Past, Present, and Future.

Here’s some thoughts about some hardware I was going to use, hardware I use daily, and hardware I’ll probably use someday in the future. Thunderbolt is dead, long live Thunderbolt. Seriously, it’s dead, use it as a video interconnect and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 20, 2013

New Linux Training Courses Address OpenStack, Enterprise Automation Needs

It’s graduation season and every day there are articles about the shortage of computer scientists. This includes a shortage of entry-level engineers, but also experienced SysAdmins, IT Architects and DevOps professionals in the enterprise...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 19, 2013

Linux Scholarships Aim to Increase Access to In-Depth Linux Education: Apply Now

Ninety-three percent of employers plan to hire a Linux pro in the next six months. Ninety percent of hiring managers say it’s difficult to find experienced Linux professionals. When they do find them, they’re offering higher salaries and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 18, 2013

Share Your Expertise: Calling First-Time Speakers to Contribute at LinuxCon/CloudOpen North America

The Linux Foundation produces more than 15 events a year. They range from the Linux Kernel Summit to CloudOpen to Automotive and Embedded Linux Conferences. If you have attended our events over the last few years you would likely have run...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 18, 2013

Reality Check: Defining The True Success of Linux

Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a new series by SUSE community marketing manager Brian Proffitt for Linux.com called “Reality Check” that will take a look at Linux in the real world. The first, 5 Linux Features You Want in...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 17, 2013

U-Boot Creator Wolfgang Denk on the Great Achievements of Embedded Linux

Embedded Linux can claim at least two great achievements in standardization in the past few years, according to Wolfgang Denk, managing director of DENX Software Engineering and creator of U-Boot, the open source universal boot loader for...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 11, 2013

Tulsa’s Community Collaboration Model for Supercomputing

Two weeks ago the Tandy Supercomputing Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma launched as the home to one of the country’s first shared, publicly available supercomputers. The project — born of a collaboration between The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 11, 2013

The People Who Support Linux: Giving a Public System a Web Interface Lift

As an IT manager for the Mt. Lebanon Municipality near Pittsburgh, PA, Nick Schalles recently faced a familiar but difficult problem for those maintaining public infrastructure. How could they update an old system to meet the new demands...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 6, 2013

You’re Invited to Contribute to the Future of Linux.com

With nearly 1 million visitors a month, we aim to make Linux.com a hub of information for the Linux community and a platform for advocacy for the Linux operating system. Thank you to our readers and community members for your ongoing...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 31, 2013

Linux Thermal Daemon Monitors and Controls Temperature in Tablets, Laptops

Intel’s Open Source Technology Center has released an open source tool to monitor and control temperature in tablets, ultrabooks and laptops. The Linux Thermal Daemon can use the latest thermal drivers in the Linux kernel, not just the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 30, 2013

What IT Managers Can Learn About Retention From 2013 Linux Job Report

The Linux Foundation recently released the 2013 Linux Jobs Report and in a competitive marketplace where companies are struggling to find new talent and salaries are skyrocketing, the other side of the coin is “love the one you’re with.”...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 30, 2013