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

Attention CEO’s: You Are in the Software Business. Now What?

Whether you’re Nissan or Toyota, Walmart or Nordstrom, NYSE or NASDAQ, you are in the software business. Every company today, regardless of whether or not they’re a “technology” company, is in the business of building software. Today’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 4, 2012

Open Source Cloud News Roundup: Week of Oct. 1

Zenoss released a new report this week that predicts more than 50 percent open source cloud adoption among enterprises within five years. In other open source cloud news, Rackspace has a new training and certification program for...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 4, 2012

Bringing the Open Cloud to Las Vegas: The CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Most of the work in open source communities takes place over mailing lists, IRC, code repositories, and ticketing systems. In other words, efficient collaboration tools that let folks from all over the world work together without having to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 2, 2012

We Invite You to Share the World's Most Inspiring Linux Stories

Linux inspires. It is enabling nearly every technology innovation of the 21st century and is supporting the growth of numerous industries from mobile to the cloud. And, its reach goes far beyond these markets to also enable scientific...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 1, 2012

Open Source Programs Aim to Meet Global Demand for Developers

I recently wrote that to master technology, you must master software. It is software that differentiates one device or computing experience from another. And since nearly all software today is built using open source projects and code,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 28, 2012

Open Source Cloud Roundup, Week of Sept. 24

The OpenStack Folsom release is out this week, along with a new cloud strategy announced by IBM. Also, OpenNebula’s CEO pens an argument for innovation in the cloud through open source; Seeking Alpha reminds us what open source cloud...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 27, 2012

Fluendo Advances Multimedia for Linux

The Linux Foundation in March announced that Fluendo was becoming a member. The company has been at the forefront of building legal multimedia solutions for open environments and works very closely with the Gstreamer community. In this...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 27, 2012

To Master Tech You Must Master Software - And Open Source - Even If You're Apple

During my keynote at LinuxCon, I showed a picture of five smart phones from five different manufacturers with their screens blacked out. Think you could tell them apart? Without a UI they are all virtually indistinguishable from each...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 26, 2012

Linux Event TV: One-on-One with Open Source Visionaries

Linux Foundation events are studded with Linux and open source community leaders, as well as some eccentric personalities. What better place than one of these events to sit down and talk to the people who are making innovation happen in...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 25, 2012

Building a Private Cloud with Open Source Ganeti: Pros and Cons

Businesses considering building a private cloud with open source tools have likely explored at least one of the big three open IaaS options: OpenStack, CloudStack and Eucalyptus. These are great platforms for IT departments that have the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 25, 2012

Why Doesn't Linux Do What Windows, OS X, Solaris, etc. Does?

Attendees of our Linux developer courses come from a variety of backgrounds and many are versed in other operating systems. Read more at training site blog  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 25, 2012

Open Cloud News Roundup, Week of Sept. 17

The official launch of the OpenStack Foundation drove the open source cloud news this week. Here is a collection of news articles devoted to the announcement and some analysis of where the project is headed, including one board member’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 20, 2012

LinuxCon Europe Keynoter Catarina Mota Talks Open Source Hardware

We kick off our LinuxCon Europe Q&A series today with keynote speaker and openMaterials Co-founder Catarina Mota. Mota shares some really interesting insights with us on open hardware, her favorite projects and how open hardware compares...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 20, 2012

Available Now Online: Winning Linux T-Shirt Contest Designs

The two winning designs in the 2012 “Inspired by Linux” T-shirt Design Contest are now available for purchase in the Linux.com store. The first place winner, Brian Beck, uses an “ Inspired by Linux Arrow” design to illustrate the ideals of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 19, 2012

ENCODE DNA Data Project, Inspired and Built By Linux

Scientists celebrated a breakthrough in their understanding of the human genome this month – the results of a large collaborative project driven by big data and built with Linux. On Sept. 5, Nature and two other scientific journals...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 18, 2012

Why You Should Attend LinuxCon Europe: My Top Five Sessions

Earlier this week we published the full schedule for LinuxCon Europe and Embedded Linux Conference Europe. In many ways, I think the technical content for LinuxCon Europe may be the best collection of speakers we’ve ever had. I wonder if...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 13, 2012

Open Source Cloud News Roundup, Week of Sept. 10

Mark Shuttleworth’s $1 million investment in open source cloud storage company InkTank leads the open cloud headlines this week. Also included is a rosy forecast on the public cloud services market from IDC, a collection of quotes on the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 13, 2012

Just For Fun: A Collaborative Art Project for the Cloud

Who says collaboration has to stop with code? This communty knows well the power of collaboration to advance everything from software to science and yes, to the arts. We invited members from the community to collaborate with us at LinuxCon...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 12, 2012

10 Insights from Linux Leaders in the Open Cloud

How do the Linux and open source communities define the open cloud? Our Leaders of the Open Cloud series posed this key question, along with many others, to industry heavyweights in the 10 weeks leading up to the CloudOpen conference in...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 11, 2012

Skateboarding with Greg Kroah-Hartman

After the Linux Kernel Summit was done, the Linux kernel panel had wrapped and the LinuxCon and CloudOpen keynotes were finished, there was only one thing left to do at last week’s event: Skate. You might have heard rumblings and seen...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 7, 2012

Defining the Open Cloud

Last week at CloudOpen we had a short panel discussion about what makes an “open cloud.” Surprisingly, some folks don’t think that having the source code to the cloud service is a requirement. The panel, led by Red Hat’s John Mark Walker,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 6, 2012

Open Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of Sept. 4

The news and analysis on open source cloud computing keeps flowing after the CloudOpen conference in San Diego last week. New data from IDC released during the conference shows users overwhelmingly support the open cloud, but some bloggers...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 6, 2012

LinuxCon and CloudOpen Media Takeaways

The LinuxCon and CloudOpen 2012 conference held in San Diego last week were an epic success. Three days of keynotes and technical sessions from leaders in Linux, open source technologies and cloud computing sparked new conversations online...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 5, 2012