Blog | Linux Foundation (45)

Global Hunt Begins for #HiddenTux: Find Tux and Win

At least 10 stuffed penguins are hidden around the world and are waiting to be found and adopted by you. As the Linux mascot, the Tux penguins represent freedom, collaboration and innovation and are what hundreds of thousands of people... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 8, 2014

To Linux Foundation SysAdmin Ryan Day, Elegance is the Best Tool

System administrators keep our lives and work seamlessly humming. They are the super heroes who often go unnoticed and unrecognized only until things go wrong. And so, leading up to SysAdmin Day on July 25, we’re honoring the hard work of... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 8, 2014

Cisco: Linux is the “Single and Best” Tech for IoT

Cisco earlier this year unveiled its plans to build smarter routers and switches to help manage the massive flows of data expected between Internet-connected devices and the data center. This re-architecting of the Internet to bring... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 7, 2014

The Companies That Support Linux: Nextiva

Google’s announcement last week of new work-friendly features in its forthcoming Android L release, along with its big tent foray into the enterprise, underscores just how much businesses are turning to mobile devices and the cloud for... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 1, 2014

The People Who Support Linux: Hacking on Linux Since Age 16

Pretty much all of the projects in software developer Yitao Li’s GitHub repository were developed on his Linux machine. None of them are necessarily Linux-specific, he says, but he uses Linux for “everything.” For example: “coding /... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 27, 2014

What's Next For Fedora?

Between the upcoming Fedora 21 release, involvement in Red Hat’s Project Atomic, its planned re-structuring under Fedora.next, and its new leader, Matthew Miller, the Fedora Project has a lot going on lately. All of the upheaval is a sign... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 25, 2014

The People Who Support Linux: Systems Engineer Teaching Himself Python

Systems engineer Renault Ellis started using Linux five years ago when he was enrolled in a security and forensics program. He was studying IP tables and read the C Programming Language manual by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie along with... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 23, 2014

Linux Poetry Explains the Kernel, Line By Line

Editor’s Note: Feeling inspired? Send your Linux poem to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for your chance to win a free pass to LinuxCon North America in Chicago, Aug. 20-22. Be... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 19, 2014

Best Technology MOOCs for Summer and Fall

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are increasing in their popularity. We’ve seen first hand how much people want to be able to access and learn new information on their own schedule. For example, our Introduction to Linux MOOC, hosted by... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 19, 2014

Welcoming #MesosCon to CloudOpen

A few years ago we put together the CloudOpen conference to unite the open source projects and products companies are using to create cloud or elastic computing infrastructures inside their companies: OpenStack and CloudStack, containers... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 18, 2014

The People Who Support Linux: Embedded Linux Hobbyist Maintains eLinux Wiki

Bill Traynor first got hooked on embedded Linux development when a friend who maintained Hitachi’s SH architecture helped him install Linux on his Sega Dreamcast. From there he developed a hobby of installing Linux on various gaming... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 17, 2014

The People Who Support Linux: Engineer Thanks Father for His Linux Career

Software engineer Thomas Gibbons remembers from an early age working with his father to set up mail servers in their home in Kidderminster, England. His dad, Christopher Gibbons, a BT (British Telecom) engineer, was always eager to teach... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 13, 2014

The Companies That Support Linux: Rackspace

Rackspace has lately been in the news for its stock market gains and a potential acquisition. But over the past 16 years the company has become well known, first as a web hosting provider built on Linux and open source, and later as a... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 10, 2014

Linux Video of the Week: Meet the First Tizen Smartphone, Samsung Z

At the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco this week, Samsung unveiled the first smartphone to run the Linux-based Tizen mobile operating system. In this video, CNET reporter Jessica Dolcourt walks through the phone’s features and... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 5, 2014

Announcing Rapid Progress on Core Infrastructure Initiative

A month ago we announced the Core Infrastructure Initiative, a project to help fund critical open source projects that we all rely upon but that are in need of support. We moved quickly to organize the initiative and the industry reaction... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 2, 2014

The Companies That Support Linux: Cumulus Networks

Linux has already transformed data center economics on the server side, and Cumulus Networks is set to do it again – this time through the network. The company behind Cumulus Linux, the first distribution for data center switches and other... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 2, 2014