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Intro to Linux Training Opens Up a World of Commands

This month marks my two-year anniversary of working for the Linux Foundation as the digital content editor for Linux.com. It’s been an amazing two years and I’ve learned a lot about Linux and the open source community. But I still have a... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 15, 2014

Learn How to Contribute to the Linux Kernel, Take the Eudyptula Challenge

If you want to contribute to the Linux kernel but aren’t sure where to start, the Eudyptula Challenge could be a great way to test your programming skills and learn how to participate in the kernel community. The Challenge, which appeared... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 15, 2014

Pivotal Brings PaaS to the Enterprise Through Community Collaboration

Open source in the enterprise has changed dramatically since Pivotal Software’s Head of Product James Watters worked on the OpenSolaris operating system for Sun at the start of the new millenium. Back then companies used open source... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 10, 2014

Windows XP and the Changing Calculus of Technology Choice

One reason technology choices are so difficult is technology is always a work in progress; your one choice has lasting consequences since the technology rarely ever lives on its own, and most good technology is never done — that is unless... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 8, 2014

IBM Promotes Free LF Course

Apr. 8, 2014. IBM today celebrated the 50th anniversary of the mainframe computer. As part of this event, IBM is promoting three upcoming online courses that focus on building enterprise computing talent. One of these is the recently... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 8, 2014

Hilary Mason's ApacheCon Keynote: 3 Ways to Improve Data Science

Data science still has a long way to go in developing systems that solve real-world, human problems, said Hilary Mason, data scientist in residence at Accel Partners, in her keynote at ApacheCon in Denver today. The open source community... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 7, 2014

Answers to Your Q's on Free Intro to Linux Course from edX Twitter Chat

Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin and edX CEO and MIT professor Anant Agarwal answered questions in a live Twitter chat yesterday about the free Intro to Linux training course that will be available on the edX online learning... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 4, 2014

Red Hat's Jason Hibbets: How Open Source Software is Changing City Government

Linux and open source software have demonstrated that collaborative development is a successful model for rapid innovation in the tech sector. Now that model is being applied in other industries from health care, to city government, to... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 2, 2014

Free Linux MOOCs: Live Twitter Chat April 3, 8 a.m. PST with edX CEO and Linux Foundation Executive Director

Starting this summer, The Linux Foundation’s Intro to Linux training course will be available for free on edX, the online learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT. The course has already attracted nearly 100,000 registrations since it... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 1, 2014

How Samsung is Bringing Open Source Culture Inside the Firewall

Software companies have long realized the economic and strategic value of using and contributing code to external open source projects. But they’re much slower to understand and apply the same open source methods of collaboration to their... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 27, 2014

Best Quotes from the Linux Kernel Developer Panel

Linux kernel developers Greg Kroah-Hartman, Jens Axboe, Dave Chinner, Matthew Garrett, and Mel Gorman participated in a panel discussion, moderated by LWN Editor Jon Corbet, at Collaboration Summit on Wednesday. Here are some of the... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 27, 2014

Panel: How to Enable Large-Scale Collaboration

Companies are increasingly turning to collaborative software development to build their products and services and speed innovation, keynote presenters at Collaboration Summit told us this morning. But how does this process actually happen?... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 26, 2014

New Report: The Way Software is Built is Changing. Are You a Part of the Trend?

Open source software was first introduced in the enterprise by developers who used it in secret. CIOs and other managers would assert there wasn’t any open source within their walls only to uncover multiple skunkworks projects built on and... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 26, 2014

Watch Live Video of Collaboration Summit Keynotes on March 26

Can’t make it to Napa this week? Catch the Linux Foundation’s live video stream of Collaboration Summit keynotes on Wednesday, March 28, starting at 9:30 a.m. PST. (Login required) And check back into Linux.com for regular updates and... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 25, 2014

Red Hat's Chris Wright: Telco Industry Poised for Open Source Disruption

As an OpenDaylight project board member and the technical director of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) at Red Hat, Chris Wright knows what it takes to launch a successful open source, collaborative project. He’ll share some of what he’s... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 24, 2014

Linux Video of the Week: Why Open Source Will Change Networking

Open source software will dramatically accelerate change in the networking industry over the next few years through software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV), according to a new report released this week... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 21, 2014

Xen Project Shares Lessons of Collaborative Project Success

It’s been almost one year since the Xen Project open source hypervisor joined The Linux Foundation as a Collaborative Project. In that time the project has added new corporate members and developers and expanded into new technologies.... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 21, 2014

Neela Jacques: Why Collaborative Development is Right for Software-Defined Networking

There are a number of open source software business models that companies employ today. These approaches fall along a spectrum of openness, from companies building their products and services utilizing fully open, raw code to a mostly... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 20, 2014

Qualcomm's Liat Ben-Zur: Open Source Collaboration Works

Earlier this year, Qualcomm wowed technology industry executives and analysts with a tour of its smart connected home at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The tour demonstrated how the Linux-based home automation platform AllJoyn... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 18, 2014

Linux Kernel Developer Panel Preview: Introductions and Projects

Unless you closely follow the Linux kernel mailing list, it can be difficult to keep up with all of the latest kernel features and changes, especially as the pace and scale of development continues to rise. More than 1,300 developers from... Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 17, 2014

Linux Video of the Week: Preview of Web Browser Gaming via Unreal Engine 4 in Firefox

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