Linux Fans React to Rumors of Microsoft Office on Linux
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AF_BUS, D-Bus, and the Linux kernel
There’s been a lot of information scattered around the internet about these topic recently, so here’s my attempt to put them all in one place to (hopefully) settle things down and give my inbox a break. Last week I spent a number of days... Read More
Tux Does Mardi Gras: Share His Video and Win Ticket to LinuxCon/CloudOpen
LinuxCon North America and CloudOpen won’t happen until September but the party has already started in New Orleans where the Mardi Gras celebration is in full swing this week and the recent Super Bowl was so hot it literally turned the... Read More
Passionate Facebook Linux Community Edges Towards 100,000th Fan
Linux is literally everywhere, powering everything from the New York Stock Exchange to mobile phones to supercomputers and consumer electronics. More people have a stake in this shared resource than ever before, and that is represented by... Read More
It's a Great Time to Know Linux: "More Linux, More Money"
Dice this week released it’s annual Salary Survey (2013-2012 Salary Survey) and the results were good news for everyone, showing the largest jump in tech salaries in more than a decade. But the news was especially sweet for Linux pro’s.... Read More
It's a Great Time to Know Linux: "More Linux, More Money"
Dice this week released it’s annual Salary Survey (2013-2012 Salary Survey) and the results were good news for everyone, showing the largest jump in tech salaries in more than a decade. But the news was especially sweet for Linux pro’s.... Read More
Wrap-up: Live Linux Q&A on Getting Started with Linux
We recently conducted a Live Linux Q&A on Facebook, which was our first in a new series of live Q&A opportunities with Linux experts hosted on The Linux Foundation’s social channels. This debut Q&A featured Linux.com freelance contributor... Read More
LTSI v3.4 Released
Part of supporting the demand for Linux in consumer electronics is ensuring there is a common Linux base that is maintained and supported for the typical lifetime of a consumer device, usually two years, and that supports a large variety... Read More
Please Join Us: The 100 Linux Tutorial Campaign
We know that the Linux community is growing. It’s getting bigger every year as it moves across industries and geographies. Our Who Writes Linux paper documents each year the increasing number of contributors, sponsors and the pace of... Read More
Announcing The Linux Foundation 2013 Events Schedule (and a few 35% discounts)
I am pleased to release today The Linux Foundation’s annualLinux events and co-located training schedule. The process we undertake to build this schedule and to make available important Linux training resources to the community is an... Read More
Free Resource: A Manager's Guide to Building a Product with Embedded Linux
According to a 2012 survey of embedded engineers by both VDC Research and UBM Electronics, the use of Linux in embedded projects is increasing at a fast rate. UBM reported that some 35 percent of embedded developers are working on Linux... Read More
Learn Linux from the Experts: Live Linux Q&A January 16
There are a lot of Linux experts in the community who have amazing stories and great depths of information to share, including Linux kernel developers, Linux Foundation’s Linux training instructors, Linux.com writers and many, many more... Read More
Author Gabriella Coleman Expands on Role of Linux in Hacker Culture
Gabriella Coleman is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University. She recently released a new book titled“Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking”after having spent three years working and... Read More
Video: What a Year for Linux
Simply put, 2012 was a cross-over year for Linux in many ways. Here are just a few examples: – Android adoption outpaced the iPhone. – Red Hat achieved its$1B milestone. – Linux’s marketshare in computing rose above that of Windows,... Read More
Opinion: Best Linux Distro for Me Has a Refreshing Burst of Cinnamon
Just in time for the holidays, Clem and the gang from Linux Mint start sprinkling Cinnamon, well, everywhere. Cinnamon desktop, using the built-in Zukitwo theme Anybody who’s talked with me about running Linux on the desktop within the... Read More
Linux Foundation Recognizes Fujitsu and Mr. Masahiro Date
Thousands of people contribute to Linux every day. As our annual “ Who Writes Linux” paper reports, individuals from around the world are writing millions of lines of code every year. Equally important are the hundreds of companies... Read More
Linux Users Get Remote Desktop Boost from Splashtop
Splashtop today is releasing remote desktop Streamer software for Ubuntu Linux. We’ve been following this company (aka DeviceVM) for a few years and are excited about its evolution and what it’s bringing to Linux users. We share here a Q&A... Read More
The People Who Support Linux: Student Damien Levac Gives 3 Tips for Developing Games on Linux
Valve’s upcoming release of Steam for Linux is the best news student and game developer Damien Levac has heard since he started using Linux three years ago. Not only will it raise the profile of Linux as a gaming platform to rival Windows... Read More
Announcing The New Tizen.org
Just in case you missed it, the Tizen project just launched a brand new site at tizen.org. It’s been substantially redesigned and updated to make it easier to find project information, and reflects the new look and feel of Tizen.... Read More
The People Who Support Linux: Brazilian Developer Hacks Health Care with BeagleBoard and Android
A few years ago, Brazilian developer Daniel Neis Araujo couldn’t imagine building open source health care equipment that could compete with traditional and respected proprietary solutions. But recent advances in Linux and the open hardware... Read More
Open Source Cloud News Roundup: Week of Nov. 12
This week in open source cloud news headlines ZDNet steps out with a series predicting the winners and losers in cloud computing. One key measurement of success is how much companies are in tune with the open cloud movement. Amazon could... Read More
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 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
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
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