The People Who Support Linux: IT Manager Pursues Masters Degree in the Art of Open Source

How is the Linux community like a terrorist organization? This is a question graduate student, IT Manager and Systems Engineer Joel Burleson-Davis recently explored for his master’s thesis on sociological and philosophical systems,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 13, 2012

The People Who Support Linux: SysAdmin Tony Atkinson Admits to a Luddite Streak

Tony Atkinson’s technical expertise runs deep as a Linux systems administrator for a telecommunications company in Essex, England. He works with the Asterisk PBX (private branch exchange) and communications server and Nagios notification...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 9, 2012

Open Source Cloud News Roundup: Week of Nov. 5

CloudStack has released its first new code since becoming an Apache incubator project in April, according to top open source cloud headlines this week. Also new this week, Eucalyptus will soon have a new release to compare with its open...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 8, 2012

Top New Networking Features in CloudStack 4.0 Release

This week CloudStack 4.0 released its first code since Citrix turned the project over to the Apache Foundation in April. The release brings CloudStack one step closer to graduating from incubation to a top level Apache project. CloudStack...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 7, 2012

New IDC White Paper: Skies Are Becoming More Clear for Open Cloud

In a blog a few months ago, David Linthicum claimed that the ‘open cloud’ was getting awfully confusing. He’s right: the early days of a technology shift are a land grab of vendors, consortia, and projects who work to lay their claim of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 5, 2012

Open Source Cloud Roundup: Week of Oct. 29

This week’s open source cloud headlines highlight a few smaller open source projects and companies, including Blue Box and Orion. You’ll also find more details on HP’s cloud strategy, a new software-defined-networking feature for Rackspace...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 1, 2012

Announcing the LinuxCon Europe VIP Gift Winners, Free Live Streaming of Event

Earlier this month we invited the community to share with us their favorite session scheduled for LinuxCon Europe. In return, community members were included in a random drawing to win one of this event’s VIP/speaker gifts: the Linux...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 1, 2012

The People Who Support Linux: IT Manager Finds New Purpose with Raspberry Pi After Near-Fatal Fall

After an accident last year left him with severe brain trauma, Alan Lumley is miraculously back at work as an IT Manager and even more serious about Linux. Lumley awoke after two weeks in a coma, having survived a 12-foot fall on concrete...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 31, 2012

Help Wanted: Be Greg KH's Linux Kernel Release/ Sanity Checker

I’m looking for someone to help me out with the stable Linux kernel release process. Right now I’m drowning in trees and patches, and could use some one to help me sanity-check the releases I’m doing. Specifically, I’m looking for someone...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 30, 2012

Patents Remain Barrier to Collaboration & Innovation

I’ll be at The Atlantic’s Big Science Summit tomorrow with space explorers, energy researchers and robotics engineers. How did Zemlin get in, you ask? There’s more reason here than you think. The Big Science community is looking for ways...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 29, 2012

Welcome Windows 8 to a Post-Desktop World

A lot has changed in the three years since the last major Windows announcement. Netbooks were on the rise. The iPad wouldn’t be introduced for another six months and Nokia still had the lead for most smartphone sales in the world. Only 172...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 26, 2012

LinuxCon Europe Q&A: When the Cloud Model Doesn't Fit

LinuxCon Europe is approaching fast. We’ll be gathering in Barcelona, Spain November 5-7, 2012 to help developers, SysAdmins and business executives connect and collaborate while having a great time. One of this year’s keynote spakers is...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 25, 2012

Open Source Cloud News Roundup: Week of Oct. 22

This week’s top open source cloud headlines raised a few interesting questions. Does OpenStack need a Linus Torvalds? This week’s top open source cloud headlines raised a few interesting questions. Does OpenStack need a Linus Torvalds? And...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 25, 2012

The People Who Support Linux: A College Student By Day, Red Hat Developer By (Late) Night

In his few short years as a developer, 19-year-old Sam Kottler has racked up what seems like a decade’s worth of Linux experience. After starting a small web consultancy building Drupal sites as a high school student in Connecticut, he...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 24, 2012

What Linux Trivia Questions Should We Ask LinuxCon Europe Attendees?

This year at LinuxCon in San Diego, the folks from our training group set up a booth and gave away a variety of prizes (a skateboard, free merchandize, free Linux training) to those who took a shot at a Linux trivia quiz. There was no...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 19, 2012

LinuxCon Europe Co-located Events Offer More Opportunities for Collaboration

Earlier this week I wrote about the VIP/speaker gift we’re giving away at LinuxCon Europe (Twitter hashtag: #linuxcon) and shared with the community how anyone could win their own Linux Futbol Club soccer jersey (make sure to read that...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 18, 2012

Open Source Cloud News Roundup: Week of Oct. 15

With the OpenStack Summit in San Diego this week, open cloud headlines were dominated by OpenStack announcements and analysis. But some new criticisms of the project emerged as well. A Forrester analyst cautions that companies may not get...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 18, 2012

The People Who Support Linux: Tushar Kute Brings Linux OS to India’s Sandip Institute

Over the past three years, Tushar Kute has converted from an occasional Linux user to a Linux evangelist. The native of Pune, India, encountered Linux for the first time as an engineering student, running it as an occasional alternative to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 17, 2012

The Open Source Cloud is Ready for Hadoop, Projects Say

Two major trends in enterprise computing this year show increasing overlap: big data processing and open source cloud adoption. To Hortonworks, the software company behind open source Apache Hadoop, the connection makes sense. Enterprise...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 16, 2012

Win Your Own LinuxCon Europe VIP Gift

We’re getting ready to head to LinuxCon Europe taking place in Barcelona November 5-7, 2012. Spain is home to many things: masterful architecture, amazing tapas and wine, and beautiful beaches, among many other notable finds around the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 15, 2012

Wired Op/Ed: When Automakers Become Software Makers

Wired just published an op/ed we wrote about the role Linux and collaborative development are playing in the automotive industry. This role is becoming so important that we recently announced the formation of the Automotive Grade Linux...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 15, 2012

Open Source Cloud News Roundup: Week of Oct. 8

This week’s open source cloud news shows more signs that open source adoption and the open source mindset are gaining momentum in the cloud. VMware, for example, this week announced new support for Amazon EC2. Meanwhile, OpenNebula has...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 11, 2012

Korea Linux Forum Hosts Kernel Collaboration Gangnam Style

This week The Linux Foundation is hosting its first-ever event in South Korea, the Korea Linux Forum in the Gangnam District. This was planned long before PSY’s Gangnam-style videowent viral but who are we not to do our part in...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 10, 2012

Open Cloud Means APIs, Data and Code, Says Mickos

Finland native, LinuxCon Europe keynoter and Eucalyptus Systems CEO Marten Mickos took a few minutes to share his latest thoughts on what open cloud really means and what role Linux and open source software are meant to play in the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 5, 2012

Top Five Tech Jobs Point to Opportunity for Linux Pro's

There is good news being reported today throughout online, print and broadcast newsrooms: The U.S. unemployment rate has dipped to a four-year low to 7.8 percent, and staffing and consulting firm Robert Half International released its 2013...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 5, 2012