The True Measure of a Successful Open Source Project

A question I get a lot is, “What makes an open source software project successful?” This isn’t a simple question, as every project is really different. But certainly there are some common characteristics: a vibrant and open community and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 15, 2014

Apache Hadoop Transitions to Git

The Apache Infrastructure team has gotten Git migrations down pat. Just ask the Apache Hadoop project, which moved from Subversion to Git in less than 10 days. Hadoop committer Karthik Kambatla says that getting from the request to Infra...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 8, 2014

How Amazon Web Services Uses Linux and Open Source

Amazon Web Services first launched in 2006 with one instance and one operating system: Amazon Linux. The cloud computing giant has since expanded to offer customers the option of running on more than 30 instance types and more than 10...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 8, 2014

Tizen SDK Updated for the Gear S

By now, you’ve probably seen the news about the Tizen-based Gear S smartwatch that was unveiled at IFA. Aside from having a massive curved screen (for a watch, at least), it also has GSM connectivity, meaning it can truly function as a...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 7, 2014

Matthew Garrett's Advice on Hardware, Linux Kernel Careers, and Fruit Flies

The most popular questions posed to Linux kernel developer Matthew Garrett during his Reddit AMA this week related to kernel hacking and hardware issues. But Garrett, a senior security engineer at Nebula, answered frankly on a variety of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 5, 2014

How Elizabeth Joseph Became a SysAdmin on HP's OpenStack Infrastructure Team

Before Elizabeth Joseph began her career as a system administrator, she was a hobbyist who attended a lot of Linux Users Group meetings in her hometown near Philadelphia. Now she’s an automation and tools engineer at HP, working on the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 2, 2014

The Companies That Support Linux: SanDisk Advances Storage Industry

A growing dependency on digital data has spurred new interest in flash storage technologies along with cloud-based services and storage. With the broadest portfolio of flash-memory based solutions in the industry, SanDisk is on the leading...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 2, 2014

Linux Training Scholarship Application Deadline is Next Tuesday, Sept. 2

Next Tuesday, Sept. 2, is the deadline to apply for The Linux Foundation’s Training Scholarship Program. Don’t miss this opportunity for free tuition on a Linux Foundation training course. The program will award five scholarships to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 28, 2014

Linux Energy Drink: Get Energized with this Recap of LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America

LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America this year hosted the developers and maintainers building the software that is running our lives. It also hosted the DevOps professionals and SysAdmins supporting the systems that keep those lives...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 26, 2014

Opening Up in New Ways: How the OpenPOWER Foundation is Taking Open to New Places

It’s no secret that open development is the key to rapid and continuous technology innovation. Openly sharing knowledge, skills and technical building blocks is something that we in the Linux community have long been promoting and have...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 25, 2014

Video: Which Super Hero Would the Linux Community Be?

A Reddit thread posted earlier this week posed the question, “What if Linux distros were super heroes?” Would Ubuntu be Superman? We’ll leave it to the Redditors to debate that one. But we can weigh in on the question “Which super hero...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 23, 2014

Three Open Source Hardware Projects' Challenges and Successes

While open source practices have come to dominate the software industry, they’re still fairly new to hardware. Many open source hardware projects are now seeing some early success but there are still many challenges ahead, as the keynote...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 23, 2014

LinuxCon and CloudOpen 2014 Keynote Videos Available

Video recordings of the LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America keynotes are now available on the Linux Foundation YouTube channel, and are embedded below, here. The event started Wednesday, Aug. 20, with Executive Director Jim Zemlin’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 21, 2014

Local Motors: Cars Should be Open Source Hardware

Though Local Motors was the first car company to produce an open source vehicle, Founder Jay Rogers says it is not an open source car company. It’s a hardware company. Traditional car companies have long product cycles, intricate assembly...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 21, 2014

What is Docker, Really? Founder Solomon Hykes Explains

Docker has quickly become one of the most popular open source projects in cloud computing. With millions of Docker Engine downloads, hundreds of meetup groups in 40 countries and dozens upon dozens of companies announcing Docker...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 21, 2014

Linux Growth Demands Bigger Talent Pool

Today at LinuxCon and CloudOpen we’re making an announcement that signifies the natural next step in helping to build a qualified talent pool of Linux professionals worldwide:The Linux Foundation Certification Program. We sought to create...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 20, 2014

Video: Everybody Do the Zombie Shuffle and More Linux Trivia

What is a zombie shuffling desk? What does the d in systemd stand for? Test your knowledge of these Linux trivia questions and watch your fellow Linux community members, including kernel developer and Linux Foundation Fellow Greg...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 20, 2014

Thanks For Making Games Faster: Top 10 Quotes from the Linux Kernel Developer Panel

Linux gamers owe a debt of gratitude to kernel developer Andy Lutomirski for his recent work getting 32-bit programs to run faster on a 64-bit kernel, said Greg Kroah-Hartman during the Linux kernel panel today at LinuxCon and CloudOpen...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 20, 2014

LinuxCon and CloudOpen This Week in Chicago

The Linux Foundation’s largest event of the year takes place this week in Chicago, starting with the co-located Linux Security Summit, Linux Kernel Summit and Xen Developer Summit today and tomorrow. Then on Wednesday LinuxCon and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 18, 2014

Linux Kernel Git Repositories Add 2-Factor Authentication

For a few years now we have been mandating a fairly strict authentication policy for those developers who commit directly to the git repositories housing the Linux kernel. Each is issued their own ssh private key, which then becomes the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 18, 2014

IBM's Doug Balog: Infrastructure Matters More Than Ever

IT infrastructure has long been an enterprise commodity – relatively cheap and abundant. But hardware is no less important in solving today’s IT challenges, from big data and the cloud, to mobile, social and security, says Doug Balog, the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 12, 2014

Scholarships Help Increase Access to Linux Education

What does a file system engineer living in Minnesota have in common with a woman from Uganda working on maintaining Linux systems and a research and computing scientist working at a medical university? They were among the five Linux...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 12, 2014

Red Hat Ceph Enterprise Brings Software Defined Storage to Big Data

Red Hat last month released the latest version of Inktank Ceph Enterprise, their object and block storage product based on the upstream open source Ceph project. It’s notable not only as the first release since Red Hat acquired the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 7, 2014

Open Prosthetics Founder: Challenges Ahead for Open Source Medical Devices

Before he lost his arm serving as a Marine in Iraq in 2005, Jonathan Kuniholm was pursuing a PhD in biomedical engineering. Now as a founder and president of the Open Prosthetics Project Kuniholm is working to make advanced, inexpensive...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 7, 2014

A Haiku Poem Dedicated to Systemd

Congratulations to Zach Villers, the second winner of our Linux poetry writing contest. Zach has won a free pass to LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America, Aug. 20-22 in Chicago, for his Systemd haiku. “I wrote the Haiku after a particularly...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 4, 2014