Longterm Kernel 3.10

As I’ve discussed in the past, I will be selecting one “longterm stable” kernel release every year, and maintain that kernel release for at least two years. Despite the fact that the 3.10-stable kernel releases are not slowing down at all,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 4, 2013

SUSE's George Shi Explains Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 Role in Mission-Critical Computing

Earlier this month SUSE announced the general availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, Service Pack 3 — their operating system for servers running mission-critical workloads in physical, virtual and cloud environments. In this Linux.com...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 31, 2013

Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton: Open Source Lessons from Wayland

In less than two years the Raspberry Pi has sold more than 1 million units and become widely used and adored among DIY hackers and embedded professionals alike. It began in 2006 as a modest idea to provide a low-cost educational computer...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 29, 2013

20 Years of Top500 Data Show Linux’s Role in Supercomputing Breakthroughs

Today the Linux Foundation released a short analysis paper on 20 years of data collected by the Top500.org supercomputer list. Released each June and November, the Top500 list has ranked the world’s fastest supercomputers since 1993. The...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 29, 2013

Happy SysAdmin Day! Forty Percent Off LinuxCon/CloudOpen for 24 Hours

It’s the last Friday of July and that means it’s SysAdmin Day. The Linux Foundation is so pleased to call some of the world’s best SysAdmins its employees and colleagues and we want to thank them as well as the millions of men and women...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 26, 2013

OSCON 2013: Find a Nonprofit Home for Your Open Source Project

Whether your open source project is just getting started or has been around for years, it may be time to consider the benefits of migrating to a non-profit organization. Several excellent nonprofits exist solely to support open source...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 26, 2013

Bloomberg TV: Most of Modern Society Running Linux

Last week I had the pleasure to appear onBloomberg Westin an interview with Cory Johnson. It’s refreshing to see mainstream broadcast media embrace and understand the Linux story so well. Cory knew what he was talking about. We covered...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 25, 2013

Wild Goose Chase: Chasing Your Way to LinuxCon Could Win You $500

In the Linux and open source software communities, there is something that is worth just as much as the paycheck developers and SysAdmins take home: it’s the reputation they earn among their peers for the quality of their code and their...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 24, 2013

Linux Fuels Automotive Innovation: Call for Automotive Linux Summit Speakers

After General Motors introduced the first-of-its-kind Cadillac User Experience (CUE) technology, now standard in the XTS and SRX, Toyota debuted a Linux-based, in-vehicle infotainment system in the new 2014 Lexus IS. This marks only the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 23, 2013

Reality Check: OpenStack is Not the Next Linux

Editor’s Note: This is the third article in a new series by SUSE community marketing manager Brian Proffitt for Linux.com called “Reality Check” that will take a look at Linux in the real world. For more in this series see 5 Linux Features...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 22, 2013

LinuxCon Program Announced Join the Most Technical Mardi Gras Parade In History

I’m pleased to announce the schedules for LinuxCon and CloudOpen happening this September in New Orleans. We had more submissions than ever and narrowing them down was probably the most difficult process we’ve ever had. And yes we will...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 19, 2013

In Memoriam of Seth Vidal

Editor’s Note: The Linux and open source communities unexpectedly lost an amazing person this week. Seth Vidal, a member of Red Hat’s Fedora Project team and a longtime open source software contributor and advocate, died tragically July 8...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 12, 2013

All About the Linux Kernel: Bcache

The 3.10 Linux kernel release late last month brought a raft of new features worth celebrating for Linux developers and sysadmins alike. This release was especially satisfying, though, to kernel developer Kent Overstreet who saw years of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 11, 2013

BusinessWeek Article Shows Android's Growing Ubiquity

The recent BusinessWeek article, “Behind the ‘Internet of Things’ Is Android—and It’s Everywhere,” gives a great window into ways that Android is being utilized and just how easy it is. Read more at Linux Training Staff Blog  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 11, 2013

How to Learn Linux and Share What You Learn: 100 Linux Video Tutorials

One of the best things about Linux is that people share what they learn. It’s a virtuous cycle of knowledge. The Linux Foundation works to provide services, resources and forums in which sharing that knowledge and collaborating to advance...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 9, 2013

Adobe CFF Engine Release Improves Linux, Android Mobile Text Experience

Linux and Android users may have recently noticed that the text on their mobile screens is a bit easier to read. That’s because devices that render fonts using the FreeType open source library now have access to Adobe’s CFF Engine. In...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 8, 2013

Collaborative Projects: Transforming the Way Software is Built

I got involved with Linux and open source in the mid-90s. I had a routine: I would check out LKML, go to bed and wake up in the morning and find thousands of messages from developers around the world innovating and iterating at an...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 8, 2013

Wargaming Mobilizes with Linux and Open Source

Online game developer and publisher Wargaming relies on Linux and open source software to produce and distribute its line of popular military strategy games, says Maksim Melnikau, a solution architect at Wargaming. The growing company...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 3, 2013

3.10 Linux Kernel Development Rate

While working on the latest statistics for the yearly Linux Foundation “Who Writes Linux” paper, I noticed the rate-of-change for the 3.10 kernel release that just happened this weekend: Every year I think we can’t go faster, and every...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 1, 2013

Webinar: Reduce Product Lifecycles with Linux and Yocto Project

This training webinar will outline how the Yocto Project helps engineers tackle a multitude of common challenges when doing embedded development Read more at Linux Training Staff Blog  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 1, 2013

Swift: The Easy Scripting Language for Parallel Computing

Over the next decade, computer scientists anticipate the world’s largest supercomputers will grow to millions of cores running as many as a billion parallel threads. Even personal devices will contain a hundred cores and perform thousands...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 26, 2013

How to Create a sysfs File Correctly

One common Linux kernel driver issue that I see all the time is a driver author attempting to create a sysfs file in their code by doing something like: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 int my_driver_probe(...) { ... retval...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 26, 2013

New Linux Automation Course Trains Sysadmins of the Future

The Linux Foundation is introducing a new Linux training course that focuses purely on the more advanced Linux system administration skills of the future. Read more at Linux Training Staff Blog  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 24, 2013

The People Who Support Linux: 19-Year-Old Aims to be a Kernel Developer

Kieran Grant works in IT support for a financial services company but unabashedly aspires to be a Linux SysAdmin and, someday, a kernel developer. After using and hacking Linux for five years, the 19-year-old from Logan City in Queensland,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 21, 2013

Hardware, Past, Present, and Future.

Here’s some thoughts about some hardware I was going to use, hardware I use daily, and hardware I’ll probably use someday in the future. Thunderbolt is dead, long live Thunderbolt. Seriously, it’s dead, use it as a video interconnect and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jun 20, 2013