5 Great Quotes of the Day from the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

Keynote presenters had some interesting things to say at The Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit in San Francisco on Monday. Here are some top quotes. What did you take away from the sessions? Please share your favorite quotes and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 15, 2013

You're Invited: Design the Future of Automotive Infotainment

Like many of us you are probably using your car almost every single day: commute to work, take the kids to school, run errands, go shopping, or just for fun. You name it. And while spending all this time on the road you may be using the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 15, 2013

Talks by Jaguar Land Rover, Samsung, Adapteva Underscore Industry Trend Toward Collaboration

The Linux Foundation’s executive director Jim Zemlin sees a new trend in the technology industry toward a collaborative development model. Companies are focusing their research and development efforts outward and participating more in open...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 15, 2013

Jon Corbet's Linux Forecast, Netflix and More from Collaboration Summit

Afternoon sessions at The Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit featured Netflix, Intel, Red Hat, Linux Foundation collaborative projects and the Linux weather forecast by Jon Corbet. Here are some of the highlights. Netflix As of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 15, 2013

Red Hat's John Mark Walker: The Open Cloud Needs Open Storage

Open source leads the data center, says John Mark Walker, Gluster Community leader at Red Hat. OK, what’s next? This is the question Walker plans to address in his keynote on Monday at Collaboration Summit in San Francisco, though he hints...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 12, 2013

My Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit Picks and Details on Live Video Access to Keynotes

For The Linux Foundation, April is not the cruelest month: it’s one of the busiest. Every year, we hold our Collaboration Summit in mid-April to bring together our members, Linux and open source community developers, open source legal...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 11, 2013

The People Who Support Linux: Tony Awtrey, Linux Developer and Opera Singer

Listening to Tony Awtrey sing Pie Jesu from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem is awe inspiring. The classically trained tenor has a euphonious voice capable of taking your breath away. He’s also a Linux developer and Chief Scientist in the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 10, 2013

Live Chat Recap with $99 Linux Supercomputer’s Andreas Olofsson

Adapteva plans to release the first batch of its $99 Parallella boards on April 15. That means the company is less than two weeks away from fulfilling its promise of making parallel computing affordable and accessible for everyone. And...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 8, 2013

OpenDaylight Project Marks New Dawn for Software-Defined Networking

The Linux Foundation today is announcing a new Collaborative Project: OpenDaylight. This is a community-led, industry-supported open source framework on top of which companies, organizations and individuals will build commercial products...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 8, 2013

New Course: High Availability Linux Architecture for Mission Critical Workloads

A high availability cluster capable of withstanding a data center outage or other severe losses within the IT environment is a necessity Read more at Linux Training Staff Blog  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 8, 2013

Law Librarian Creates LibreOffice, gscan2PDF How-to Videos for 100 Linux Tutorials Campaign

Library technician John Kerr was one of the first Linux community members to add his how-to videos to the 100 Linux Tutorials Video Campaign this year. The brief screencasts showcase software that he uses everyday in his job at the county...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 3, 2013

HTML5 and Qt, Two Popular Tools for Embedded Linux Application Development

Along with the proliferation of mobile and touchscreen devices, embedded Linux developers have shifted away from building their own operating systems from scratch. Instead they’ve been moving over the past few years toward frameworks such...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 3, 2013

Jon Corbet Mulls Linux Kernel Changes

Now that the Linux kernel 3.9 merge window is closed, it’s safe to say we know what features will be included in the next kernel release. What lies beyond is predictable, still, but will likely hold a surprise or two. That’s where the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 1, 2013

What is Open Source Cloud?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Joe Brockmeier, community evangelist for CloudStack at Citrix. For all the talk about cloud, it might come as a surprise to many in the industry that “cloud” is not a well-understood term. It’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 28, 2013

Linux Foundation Training Prepares the International Space Station for Linux Migration

It’s hard to get tech support 400 kilometers away from the Earth, which is why Keith Chuvala of United Space Alliance, a NASA contractor deeply involved in Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) operations, decided to migrate...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 27, 2013

Report: Enterprise Linux Growth Outpaces Windows

The Linux Foundation today is releasing its annual Enterprise End User Report. Because this is the third year we’ve surveyed the world’s largest enterprises and The Linux Foundation’s End User Council about Linux adoption, we’re able to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 27, 2013

Free Resource: How to Give a Great Tech Talk Tutorial at CollabSummit

As the head curator for content at Linux Foundation events, I work with over 500 speakers a year on technical talks. Universally the people chosen to speak at our events have amazing technical knowledge. They know their stuff. But the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 26, 2013

Live Twitter Q&A Thursday with Adapteva CEO on the $99 Linux Supercomputer

Back in October Adapteva wrapped up a successful Kickstarter campaign to build a Raspberry Pi-inspired $99 Linux supercomputer. Next month the company expects the first Parallela boards to be in production — just in time to show off at The...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 26, 2013

Intro to Real-Time Linux for Embedded Developers

When embedded projects call for for a real-time operating system, Linux developers often turn to PREEMPT-RT, the real-time kernel patch, to get it done. “The PREEMPT_RT patch (aka the -rt patch or RT patch) makes Linux into a real-time...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 21, 2013

How to Choose an Embedded Linux Operating System, Part 2

Embedded Linux is hard to define, but at least we know now that Linux pros say Android is not embedded Linux. (See part 1 in this series, Android vs. Embedded Linux and this weekâs Q&A with Mentor Graphicsâ John Cherry.) That doesnât mean,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 15, 2013

Jaguar Land Rover Seeks Automotive Leadership With Linux

The automotive industry is undergoing a major technological shift and Jaguar Land Rover is at the forefront. The UK-based JLR has embraced Linux as the operating system underlying its next generation In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) systems....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 15, 2013

Windows Embedded Expert Jumps Into Open Source

With the growth of Linux and open source, Sean Liming decided that heâd like to beef up his Linux knowledge. Read more at Linux Training Staff Blog  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 12, 2013

Tizen Developer Conference CFP closing March 13

If you haven’t submitted your speaker session for the 2013 Tizen Developer Conference, get cracking. You’ve got less than a week! As a reminder, the general topic areas are: Application Development and Deployment Device/Product Development...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 8, 2013

Q&A with Mentor Graphics’ John Cherry: Android or Embedded Linux?

As we discovered last week, Linux pros don’t think Android is the new embedded Linux. Android does, however, have a lot of great uses in embedded projects and many features that even hard core embedded Linux developers can envy. To dig a...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 8, 2013

Puppet Labs CEO: How to Grow an Authentic Open Source Community

Luke Kanies, founder and CEO of Puppet Labs, kicked off the last day of ApacheCon with a keynote on Growing Authentic Communities. Despite being early on the final day of a conference, Kanies managed to draw a respectable crowd at...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 7, 2013