Articles by The Linux Foundation

As Data Grows, So Grows Linux

IDC recently announced its numbers for 2011 Q4 servers sales: overall server revenues are up for the year 5.8 percent, and shipments are up 4.2 percent. As The Reg reports, these shipment numbers are back to pre-recession levels. What’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 15, 2012

Thunderbird 11 Released: Lots of Fixes, Frustratingly Few New Features

Though it gets much less attention than its browser sibling, Thunderbird is still plugging away. Since it’s on the rapid release cycle, it’s also pushing out releases pretty regularly, with fewer new features per release. With Thunderbird...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 14, 2012

Can Linux Win in Cloud Computing?

Gerrit Huizenga is Cloud Architect at IBM (and fellow Portland-er) and will be speaking at the upcoming Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in a keynote session titled “The Clouds Are Coming: Are We Ready?” Linux is often heralded as the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 13, 2012

Patents, Legal Collaboration and our Legal Summit

Unfortunately legal issues, specially patents lawsuits, are much in the news. From Yahoo suing Facebook to the ongoing battles surrounding Apple and other mobile device providers, my RSS and social media feeds seem to have more and more...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 13, 2012

Linux Training Opportunities at Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

The Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit is a great time to, well, collaborate. But it’s also a really good opportunity to learn. We’re offering three courses at this year’s Collaboration Summit, each in a different area, to help build...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 8, 2012

Slideshow: Five Years of Linux Collaboration

Gallery View Gallery (15) One of our most special events of the year is just a month away, the Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. This Summit is unique because it’s the first event we ever hosted (2007 on the Google campus) and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 2, 2012

Why the Next Steve Jobs Needs a Raspberry Pi, Not Patents

Nicholas Negroponte is always ahead of his time. When he envisioned One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), the average price for a PC was still hundreds of dollars. The industry rallied around his vision for a low-cost PC that anyone could use but...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 1, 2012

The Greatness of Git

When Linus Torvalds says he is going to work on a side project he doesn’t think small and he doesn’t work slowly. When he created “Git,” the software source control and collaboration system that runs Linux kernel development, he started...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 28, 2012

Tizen Conference Announced

Just in case you missed it, the first Tizen conference has been announced! It will be held at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, from May 7-9. The 2012 Tizen Conference will be a good opportunity for developers and device builders to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 24, 2012

The Ever-Changing Linux Skillset

Just because you had what it takes for a good Linux-related job a decade ago, it doesn’t mean that you have what it takes today. The Linux landscape has changed a lot, and the only thing that’s really stayed constant is that a love of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 21, 2012

What Greg Does

With my recent job change, I’m starting to run into a bunch of people asking “What exactly are you going to be doing now?” I’ve tried responding by describing the kernel related stuff I’ve been doing for the past years, and it turns out...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 21, 2012

A Look at the LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards Winners

Every year LinuxQuestions.org hosts a members choice awards, which lets members of the site vote for their favorite Linux distributions and open source applications. There’s not a lot of change in the results from last year, but the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 15, 2012

Why Linux Jobs Are Burning Up the Tech Market: Q&A with Dice.com's Alice Hill

The Linux Foundation, in partnership with Dice.com, today released the results of the first-ever Linux Jobs Report. Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin breaks down the significance of those findings in his blog. In this special...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 14, 2012

Need a Job? New Study Says Learn Linux.

No one disputes that that tech jobs are fueling the economy in the U.S. and around the world. The U.S. President said in his recent State of the Union address that there are twice as many openings in the science and technology sector as...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 14, 2012

The Embedded and Mobile Linux Trends Shaping 2012

We’re preparing for our weeklong extravaganza of mobile and embedded development next week. Android Builders Summit kicks off Monday and ELC follows on Wednesday, taking place February 15-17, 2012. For the really hard-core, we’ve even...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 7, 2012

Zuckerberg is Spot on with “Hacker Way” (but The Linux Community Already Knew That)

Facebook filed its IPO last week , which is big news in and of itself. However, what struck me most was the letter from Mark Zuckerberg to potential investors that puts an exclamation point on something that the Linux community has been...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 6, 2012

A Short Q&A with New Linux Foundation Fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman

The Linux Foundation announced this week that Greg Kroah-Hartman would be joining as a fellow. Kroah-Hartman is joining a small group of developers that work with the foundation on Linux and open source projects. We conducted a short Q&A...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 2, 2012

Get Your Embedded Linux On: Join Me at Yocto Project Developer Day

Building an embedded Linux distribution can be a daunting task. From the Board Support Package (BSP) to Kernel configuration, root file system setup and the selection many additional software package there are many choices to make and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 1, 2012

The Ever-Changing Linux Filesystems: Merging Directoris into /usr

If you don’t like change, working in IT has to be a harrowing experience. That’s particularly true in open source, where few stand on tradition and things move at breakneck pace. The latest change that has a few folks excited? Fedora’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 30, 2012

A Very Short Rant About "Copyrighted" Code

This morning I was reading a site that regularly covers free and open source software. To protect the guilty party (because I suspect the error was one of rushed writing rather than ignorance), I’ll leave out the publication and author....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 26, 2012

A Very Short Rant About "Copyrighted" Code

This morning I was reading a site that regularly covers free and open source software. To protect the guilty party (because I suspect the error was one of rushed writing rather than ignorance), I’ll leave out the publication and author....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 26, 2012

Free Embedded Linux Training at Yocto Developer Day on February 14th

Use of Linux in the mobile/embedded space is exploding, and we find many companies are adopting the open source Yocto project to build custom embedded Linux systems. The project is hosting a free day of training on Yocto on Feb 14th as...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 26, 2012

HP Releases More Details on the Open Sourcing of webOS

This morning, HP gave further details of its contribution of the webOs platform to the open source community. I find these details and the timeline associated with the release to be positive developments, both for Linux and for the wider...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 25, 2012

Looking Back on SCALE 10x

A lot of things change in 10 years. Many of the Linux conferences we were going to in 2002 are no longer around, but the Southern California Linux Expo has not only survived – it’s grown into a major event for anybody interested in Linux....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 24, 2012

Linux Adopton Trends 2012: A Closer Look

Toyota, Google, Facebook, New York Stock Exchange, Burlington Coat Factory, Amazon. These names represent just a handful of the thousands of large companies using Linux today. As early adopters of Linux (some having used the OS well over a...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 19, 2012