Migrating from UNIX to Linux Webinar Sept 5th
Best practices, tools and concepts for making the switch to Linux. Read more at Linux Training Staff Blog Read More
The People Who Support Linux: Attorney Uses Linux to Aid Firm’s Data Analysis
Employment attorney Ahmed Minhaj first started using Linux back in 2001 because he appreciated the philosophy behind Linux and other open source projects. He was also looking for an alternative to the buggy and unstable Microsoft Windows... Read More
Kevin Kelly: How Linux Will Shape the Future of Technology
The operating system of the future is still to be determined but LInux will play an important role in creating it, says Kevin Kelly, a founding editor and Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine. Just as no one could predict what the Internet... Read More
Watch the Movie Trailer for LinuxCon/CloudOpen and Win VIP Gift
What’s been your summer blockbuster favorite? Wolverine? Lone Ranger? Pacific Rim? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Our favorite summer blockbuster comes out September 16 with an exclusive showing only in New Orleans: LinuxCon and CloudOpen... Read More
Google and IBM Team Up to Work On Next Generation Data Center Technology
Earlier this week, Google, IBM, Mellanox, NVIDIA and Tyan announced plans to form the OpenPOWER Consortium – “an open development alliance based on IBM’s POWER microprocessor architecture.” According to the release, the Consortium will... Read More
Candy Chang's Lessons on Community and Collaboration Through Collective Art
The word ‘community’ has many definitions, especially in the world of open source software and Linux. Urban planner, artist and TED fellow Candy Chang has her own understanding of community, cultivated through collective art projects in... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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