Intel VP Mauri Whalen: “If You’re not Collaborating, Development Will Happen Without You.”

Editor’s Note: This article is paid for by Intel as a platinum-level sponsor of the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit conference and was written by Linux.com. Intel has been a leader in the Linux kernel community for almost two...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 18, 2015

SUSE Explains Why the Future of Enterprise Storage is Open Source

The storage market is growing rapidly, creating a new market for open source solutions, software-defined storage, and cloud computing. So SUSE’s announcement last month of its new enterprise storage solution based on the open source Ceph...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 9, 2015

Ceph Open Source Storage Grows With Red Hat Backing

Editor’s Note: This article is paid for by Red Hat as a Diamond-level sponsor of the Linux Foundation’s Vault storage conference and was written by Linux.com. The Ceph open source software-defined storage platform is taking over the world....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 9, 2015

On the Linux Kernel’s Code of Conflict

Last week, 60 kernel developers signed off on a small patch called the Code of Conflict that provides guidelines for discourse in the kernel community and outlines a path for mediation if someone feels abused or threatened. The code was...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 9, 2015

15 Questions from Kernel.org SysAdmin Konstantin Ryabitsev's Reddit AMA

Linux Foundation System Administrator Konstanin Ryabitsev works on the team that runs the systems behind Linux kernel development on kernel.org. As part of the Collaborative Projects team he’s also responsible for providing IT hosting for...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 5, 2015

Linux Growth Results in High Demand for Linux Talent for Fourth Year in a Row

Dice and The Linux Foundation today are releasing their annual Linux Jobs Report, which details the responses of more than 1,000 hiring managers and 3,000 Linux professionals about the state of the Linux job market. Highlights include: ●...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 4, 2015

Blind Genetics Researcher Wants to Learn Linux But Needs a Tutor

Anyone can learn Linux, given motivation and time to do so. But Thomas Hahn was born with albinism – a genetic disorder that’s left him nearly blind – and despite his great desire to transfer his Windows programming skills to Linux, it’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 3, 2015

Up to $1,000 Off All Our March Training Courses

The new year is a almost a quarter of the way through, and now that youâve had some time to settle in, itâs time to start thinking about training. Read more at Linux Training Staff Blog  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 2, 2015

Samsung, OpenChain Aim to Build Trust With Open Source Compliance

Samsung is a top-five contributor to the Linux kernel and contributes upstream to more than 25 other open source projects. Yet the public perception that the company doesn’t care about open source has persisted, despite its efforts, said...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 20, 2015

10 Great Quotes on PaaS and Containers from Collab Summit 2015

A panel of Platform as a Service and container experts at Collaboration Summit Wednesday didn’t agree on many things – including the relative importance of PaaS and containers, which is more useful for developers, and how the ecosystem...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 19, 2015

10 Highlights of Jon Corbet's Linux Kernel Report

In his keynote talk at Collaboration Summit, kernel contributor and LWN Editor Jon Corbet elaborated on the results of the Who Writes Linux report, released today, and gave more insights on where kernel development is headed over the next...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 19, 2015

Linux Kernel Report: More Contributors Than Ever

Working with Jon Corbet and Greg Kroah-Hartman to produce the ‘Who Writes Linux’ report is one of the most important research projects we do, as it surfaces important data and trends that offer some insight into how the Linux kernel...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 18, 2015

Dronecode: Taking the Internet of Things to the Skies

In 2007 former Wired Magazine Editor Chris Anderson built a Lego mindstorms robot with his kids in an effort to get them interested in science. Two years later he founded 3DRobotics, now the largest personal drone company in North America....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 18, 2015

How to Get Involved with the Apache Mesos Open Source Cloud Project

Apache Mesos is one of a select group of open source projects shaping the future of enterprise cloud infrastructure and distributed computing. The rise of container technology in the past few years has created a unique opportunity for the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 12, 2015

How to Hire Top Linux Talent

Hiring top Linux and open source talent isn’t as easy as initiating a search with your favorite recruiter. Linux and open source developers and SysAdmins are among the most sought after talent in tech; companies like IBM, Twitter, Facebook...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 10, 2015

Answering the Call for Werner Koch’s Everywhere

This past week the person who manages one of the world’s most important cryptography projects, Werner Koch, went from going broke to raising more than $100,000 for his project, GNU Privacy Guard. This is in addition to the $60,000 The...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 9, 2015

AllSeen Alliance Senior Director Philip DesAutels: The Full Promise of IoT Lies in Open Source

The Internet of Things is already a reality — thousands of devices, from home appliances and consumer electronics, to smartwatches and cars already connect to the Internet. The problem is that they don’t easily, or simply can’t, connect to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 6, 2015

Cisco Helping Advance Open Source in Networking

Last week I was in Italia at the Cisco Live! Milano event where I also had the opportunity to speak about OpenDaylight (ODL) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN). What stood out for me the most during my time there was the tremendous...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 6, 2015

Facebook’s James Pearce: Open Source Creates More Quality Code

Facebook has always used and contributed back to open source software. But over the past few years the company has become much more active in the open source community, releasing more of its own internal tools and participating in upstream...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 3, 2015

CoreOS Co-Founder Alex Polvi Talks Containers, Rocket vs. Docker, and More

CoreOS has gained notoriety over the past few years as the creator of a new Linux distribution designed for massive, Google-scale server deployments. The company’s star has risen along with the popularity of Linux containers — a key...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 30, 2015

Videos: 10 Interesting Technical Talks from LinuxConf.Au 2015

Many Linux and open source leaders gave presentations at LinuxConf.Au 2015 a few weeks ago, including Linux Creator Linus Torvalds. All of the conference videos are available on YouTube, and there were many excellent presentations — so...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 30, 2015

18 New Open Source Projects in the 2015 Guide to the Open Cloud

The Linux Foundation this week released its second annual Guide to the Open Cloud, which profiles the open source projects that organizations are using to build their own open clouds from the ground up. This year’s paper includes many new...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 23, 2015

Tizen Starts 2015 With a Bang

As many of you know, I’ve been involved with Tizen for quite some time. I manage Tizen at the Linux Foundation, which means I get a unique perspective on the project. And as anybody who has talked with me about what I do, I am a huge...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 22, 2015

The Companies That Support Linux: Planisys

As cloud computing expands beyond the data center to include all connected devices, technologies are rapidly changing to meet the need. Cloud services provider Planisys recognizes this trend and has built its business on Linux in order to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 22, 2015

Linux System Engineer Jean-Roch Rossi Advanced His Career With Practice, Certification

Though he eventually built a career as a Linux System Engineer, Jean-Roch Rossi started Linux administration as a hobby and a help-desk job in college. He switched to Mandrake Linux because his Windows machine kept crashing and built his...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 21, 2015