"The Code Warrior" Confirmed to Discuss NSA and PRISM at LinuxCon Europe

Dubbed “The Code Warrior” byVanity Fair, Mikko Hypponen has been involved in addressing some of the most high-profile computer viruses in history. He has assisted law enforcement in the United States, Europe and Asia on cybercrime cases...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 8, 2013

Congratulations to Nobel Prize Winners, and a Nod to Mass Collaboration

The Nobel Prize for physics was announced today, which went to François Englert and Peter Higgs for the Higgs boson discovery of the subatomic particle that helps define the fabric of the universe, known to many as “the God particle.” This...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 8, 2013

What's Next for SUSE Cloud and OpenStack

Last month SUSE released Cloud 2.0, the latest version of its OpenStack-based enterprise private cloud product. Notable new features include OpenStack Grizzly block storage and networking capabilities, a more robust installation process,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 7, 2013

Scholarship Winner Sarah Kiden Will Use Linux Training to Help Others

One of the things that our Linux training team looks forward to every year is reading through the submissions that come in for our Linux training scholarship program, which we recently announced the winners of. Weâre aware that when we...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 7, 2013

Training Scholarship Winner Andrew Dahl is an Aspiring Kernel Guru

Linux Foundation Training scholarship winner Andrew Dahl is relatively new to the Linux community but he’s already jumped in to help on the XFS file system, fixing bugs and reviewing a small number of patches. As a file system engineer at...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 4, 2013

Reality Check: Supercomputers Still Rule… and Linux Still Rules Them

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series by SUSE community marketing manager Brian Proffitt for Linux.com called “Reality Check” that looks at Linux in the real world. Earlier this summer, The Linux Foundation released the report 20 years...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 4, 2013

Two Weeks to Complete New Goose Chase Missions, Win $500

We’ve added 10 new missions to the Great LinuxCon Wild Goose Chase. Here’s your chance to boost your score and vie for the top three spots as we head into the final few weeks before LinuxCon and CloudOpen Europe. The grand prize is a $500...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 4, 2013

Why Do You Use Linux?

In anticipation of reaching 100,000 followers on Twitter (and I’m happy to report we did last week!), the Linux Foundation asked our fellow Linux users, “Why do you use Linux?” Here are some of the great responses we received. Why do you...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 3, 2013

New Paper Available: Economic Value of Long-Term Support Initiative

The Linux Foundation today is releasing a new paper that reports on the value of the Long-Term Support Initiative (LTSI), which is a common Linux kernel base for embedded products and is maintained by the Consumer Electronics Working Group...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 3, 2013

How Open Source Software Has Changed Samsung

In recent years, Samsung has moved from being a mere consumer of open source software to actively participating in its development as a top-10 contributor to the Linux kernel. The company is still refining its open source approach and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 2, 2013

11 Keynote Videos from LinuxCon and CloudOpen New Orleans

Catch up on any of the keynote panels you missed or re-live the great moments of LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America this year with these 11 videos. 1. The Linux kernel developers panel with Tejun Heo, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Sarah Sharp and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 27, 2013

What 30 Years of GNU Means to You

Thirty years ago today Richard Stallman announced his plans to build GNU in a post to the net.unix-wizards mailing list. What followed was the birth of the free software movement, the founding of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 27, 2013

LinuxCon Luncheon Connects Women in Technology

One of the highlights of my time at LinuxCon and CloudOpen this year in New Orleans was the first-ever women in open source luncheon held the very first day of the conference. It was a real pleasure and an inspiration to see women from all...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 26, 2013

TrueAbility Aims to Remake How Linux IT Professionals are Hired

A GitHub account may be one of the best ways for open source developers to showcase their technical skills to potential employers. But system administrators and DevOps engineers who don’t code, don’t have an easy equivalent for proving...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 26, 2013

Citrix's Mark Hinkle: Users Will Drive Innovation in Linux, Tech

After more than 20 years of development, Linux is the largest, most successful collaborative project in the world. More than 10,000 developers from more than 1,000 companies have contributed to the Linux kernel since tracking began in...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 26, 2013

Linux Training Scholarship Winners Represent New Generation of Talent

A new generation of Linux talent is emerging, and it’s inspiring to witness. We see hundreds of new faces in our Linux training courses each year and newcomers participating in sessions at Linux events like LinuxCon and CloudOpen in both...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 24, 2013

Managing the Transition to High-Availability Linux for Mission-Critical Workloads

High-availability (HA) Linux is increasingly being used to help companies meet market demands for fast-paced R&D and shorter product cycles. The medical industry, for example, is using server clusters to model the effect of drugs, conduct...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 23, 2013

Opening Up To 3D Mapping: Collaborative, Crowdsourced Approach to Map Data Gaining Speed

Finding your way in the urban jungle of a sprawling city is probably one of the most challenging tasks a motorist has to tackle. The days of folded paper maps may long be over, but electronic maps and automated navigation systems have yet...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 23, 2013

Live From LinuxCon: The CloudCast Podcasts on OpenStack Neutron, Canonical, PaaS Deployment, Puppet and Leaving VMWare

On the last day of LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America the “all things cloud computing” podcast, The CloudCast hosts Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely were busy recording back-to-back episodes. They talked with Kyle Mestery, Ian Wells, and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 19, 2013

Announcing Goose Chase Contest Winners, More Prizes for LinuxCon Europe

Round one of the great LinuxCon Goose Chase contest ends this week at LinuxCon North America. But it’s not too late to enter! Round two begins now with more prizes in store for participants heading into LinuxCon Europe in October. Today...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 18, 2013

LinuxCon and CloudOpen Live Blog Day 3: Intel, Linus Torvalds and Kernel Developers

We’re live blogging from LinuxCon and CloudOpen in New Orleans at 9 a.m. Central, Sept. 16-18. See yesterday’s coverage and follow today’s keynotes here and on the live video stream. 9 a.m. Dirk Hohndel, Intel, “The New Frontiers.” Linux...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 18, 2013

Video: Test Your Knowledge of Linux Trivia, Live from LinuxCon

What is a black squirrel wake-up call? What do the letters in UEFI stand for? We asked LinuxCon and CloudOpen attendees to give us their best answers to these and many more Linux trivia questions on video. They played along and came up...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 18, 2013

Kernel Developers, Linus Torvalds Emphasize Diversity for Innovation

Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel maintainers on stage today at LinuxCon and CloudOpen covered a range of topics, from personal hobbies to advice for getting patches upstream. But one consistent theme emerged in the discussion: Growing...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 18, 2013

Live from LinuxCon: The CloudCast Podcasts on SaltStack, OpenDaylight, Xen and CoreOS

The CloudCast hosts Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely are recording their podcast on site at LinuxCon and CloudOpen this week in New Orleans, sponsored by Citrix and Linux.com. Today they talked with Thomas Hatch, founder and CTO of SaltStack...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 18, 2013

IBM Bets Big Again on Linux: $1B for Linux on Power Systems

Linux is a thoroughbred in the world of computing and as sure a thing as you can get. With a community of tens of thousands of developers from more than 200 companies supporting the Linux operating system, it is constantly being updated...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 17, 2013