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

New Guide to the Open Cloud: Your Free Primer for Cloud Migration and Web-Scale IT

In the past year, we’ve witnessed open source cloud technologies advance in maturity and take off in whole new, unexpected directions. Just consider the many OpenStack distributions, open source networking and container-related projects...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 20, 2015

New Linux Foundation Self-Paced Sysadmin Course Will Prep You for Certification

2014 was a big year for us in training. We launched a new groundbreaking certification program and released our wildly successful “Introduction to Linux” edX MOOC, which had roughly 300,000 enrollees. To build on that, we’re excited to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 16, 2015

Drones, IoT, Containers and Cloud: CollabSummit 2015

Our schedule for The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is out and I’m proud of the speakers and projects we have assembled. I use CollabSummit and its unique structure as a litmus test for The Linux Foundation’s progress. When we...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 12, 2015

The Top 10 Linux Foundation Videos of 2014

The Linux Foundation original video, “How Linux Was Built,” reached a huge milestone in 2014, surpassing 1 million views on YouTube. The video, one of the ten most popular on the Linux Foundation YouTube channel last year, illustrates how...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 12, 2015

The Companies That Support Linux: Micron Technology Inc.

Storage industry technologies are undergoing a major shift and operating systems must evolve to keep pace with the change. That’s one reason why Micron Technology, a global leader in advanced semiconductor systems including DRAM, NAND and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 12, 2015

The Companies That Support Linux: IIX Inc.

2015 will be the year that software-defined networking goes mainstream, according to Network World. And new Linux Foundation corporate member IIX is helping data centers, Internet service providers and telecommunications companies through...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 8, 2015

Top 10 Linux.com Tutorials of the Year

If you use Linux, chances are you rely on its vast and knowledgable community of users and developers to help troubleshoot tough problems or simply learn a new concept or technique. (And if you’re such an expert that you don’t need help,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 5, 2015

Open Source Online Game Gets Students Excited About Linux

When Razvan Rughinis began teaching the introductory operating systems course at University Politehnica of Bucharest in Romania 10 years ago, he was challenged to get students interested in Linux and keep them interested for the entire...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 22, 2014

2014: The Open Source Tipping Point

For the last ten years open source has expanded into more and more segments of the computing industry. But as we review 2014, a new story emerges: software development has fundamentally shifted toward an open source model. Especially for...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 18, 2014

Tizen IVI 3.0 Gains GENIVI 7.0 Compliance

It’s not news that open source is rolling through many industries like a well-oiled machine, so of course automotive is no exception. Organizations like GENIVI are helping to move this along, by creating specifications for open source...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 16, 2014

Congratulations to the Cloud Foundry Foundation

It’s no longer debatable that most technologies today are built with open source software and collaborative development. Everyone knows this to be true. What’s become more the topic of discussion in recent years is how to support and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 9, 2014

Greg Kroah-Hartman on Contributing to the Kernel, Life as a Maintainer, Beer, and More

A Reddit AMA last week with Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linux kernel developer and Linux Foundation Fellow, went beyond the usual questions about his workstation setup and job description. Much of that was preempted by Kroah-Hartman’s lengthy list...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 5, 2014

Test Your PHP App for Free on IBM's New POWER8 Servers

Software vendors and service providers can test their PHP applications on IBM POWER8 servers running a ‘turbo charged’ LAMP stack for free until Dec. 10 under a new IBM promotion. IBM’s ecosytem development team has created a cloud...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 4, 2014

Samsung's Open Source Group is Growing, Hiring Developers (Video)

Almost two years ago, Samsung’s open source team was just one person: Linux and FOSS advocate Ibrahim Haddad. The new Open Source Innovation Group at Samsung is now 40 people strong, including 30 developers, devoted full-time to working on...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 3, 2014

Join Us at Vault: The Linux Storage and Filesystem Conference

We’re currently accepting submissions for Vault, The Linux Foundation’s Linux storage and filesystem conference, happening this March 11 and 12 in Boston, MA. The call for proposals will remain open until December 1. Submit a session...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 21, 2014