IBM's Angel Diaz: 3 Projects Creating User-Driven Standards for the Open Cloud

To seasoned software standards expert Angel Diaz, today’s effort to create interoperability in the cloud is reminiscent of the mid-90s when HTTP emerged as a state-of-the-art technology. Every application server had to do that same...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 28, 2012

Follow Our Live Coverage from LinuxCon and CloudOpen

Today I’m headed to sunny San Diego for the LinuxCon and CloudOpen conferences. Woohoo! This will be my first LinuxCon and I’m pretty excited to meet new community members, reconnect with those I met at Collaboration Summit in San...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 28, 2012

Announcing the Winners of the LinuxCon "Find Skater Tux" Competition

Today we’re very excited to announce the winners of our “Find Skater Tux” competition, which invited community members to locate the skateboard-riding penguin on our web properties and send us the URL for a chance to win a custom Linux...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 27, 2012

Announcing the Winners of the LinuxCon "Find Skater Tux" Competition

Today we’re very excited to announce the winners of our “Find Skater Tux” competition, which invited community members to locate the skateboard-riding penguin on our web properties and send us the URL for a chance to win a custom Linux...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 27, 2012

Winning T-Shirt Contest Designs On Sale This Week at LinuxCon

Brian Beck took first place in this year’s “Inspired by Linux” t-shirt design contest. We followed up with him shortly after the contest results were announced to find out more about his involvement with Linux and the open source community...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 27, 2012

What I'm Looking Forward to at LinuxCon Next Week

We have been preparing for next week for months. From picking the venue to coordinating mini-summits to shifting through the hundreds of talks submitted via the CFP, our events team and I have been focused on August 29-31 and now it’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 24, 2012

Open Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of Aug. 20

This week’s top open source cloud headlines feature a new OpenStack disribution release from Piston Cloud, an open source virtualization management tool from Convirture, interviews with cloud heavyweights at Intel and Eucalyptus, and new...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 23, 2012

CloudOpen Preview: Defining the Open Cloud Stack

Greg DeKoenigsberg is the Vice President of Community at Eucalyptus Systems and is on the opening morning keynote panel this Wednesday, August 29 at CloudOpen. He and his fellow panelists, Mark Hinkle from Citrix and Stefano Maffulli from...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 23, 2012

A New Collaboration Aimed at Automatically Backporting the Linux Kernel

The Linux Foundation’s Driver Backport Workgroup is working on automatically backporting the Linux kernel, which was discussed in some detail at The Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit in April. As a result, a new collaboration is...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 22, 2012

SUSE Aims for One-Click Enterprise Deployment on OpenStack

Editor’s Note: This article is part of an ongoing weekly series on Leaders of the Open Cloud running in advance of CloudOpen, Aug. 28-31 in San Diego. SUSE’s Alan Clark will present at the conference on “Private Cloud Availability and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 21, 2012

Test Your Linux Knowledge at LinuxCon & CloudOpen 2012!

So, you think you really know what’s happening with Linux? Well, if you’re planning on attending LinuxCon or CloudOpen in San Diego this month, we’re going to give you a chance to prove it – and you could win an opportunity to beef up your...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 20, 2012

Stable Kernel Tree Status, August 2012

As I posted to the linux-kernel mailing list, the 3.4 kernel tree will be the next long-term kernel that I will be maintaining for at least 2 years. Currently I’m maintaining the following stable kernel trees for the following amount of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 20, 2012

The LinuxCon/CloudOpen Experience

Imagine arriving at a conference where you immediately recognize Linux kernel developers from their annual Linux Kernel Summit photo. You connect with colleagues from other companies but with whom you’re working on collaborative, open...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 16, 2012

Open Source Cloud Roundup: Top Headlines Week of Aug. 13

OpenStack got a hefty share of the open cloud headlines this week with both Red Hat and Rackspace announcing new cloud services built on the open source platform. A recent Google survey of CFOs shows these execs might be good targets for...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 16, 2012

Revealed: Limited Edition "I Fight for an Open Cloud" T-shirt

Two weeks from today The Linux Foundation will debut CloudOpen. This is a really exciting time in cloud computing, a time when developers and open source projects are clearly leading the way in technology innovation. The building blocks...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 15, 2012

Revealed: Limited Edition "I Fight for an Open Cloud" T-shirt

Two weeks from today The Linux Foundation will debut CloudOpen. This is a really exciting time in cloud computing, a time when developers and open source projects are clearly leading the way in technology innovation. The building blocks...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 15, 2012

Canonical: Making the Open Cloud Seamless for Users

Cloud computing has made great strides over the past two years as more companies enter the market and open source projects emerge. But the industry is still young and the current model in which each vendor has its own solution is creating...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 14, 2012

Experience the Next Automotive Revolution

There are many significant milestones marking the path of automotive history from the early beginnings in the 19th Century to the era of modern transportation technology today. However, there are only a few revolutions that caused a...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 13, 2012

ZipWhip Releases Cloud Texting App for Linux Desktop

The company that introduced the Textspresso machine to the world has now released its desktop cloud texting application for Linux. Zipwhip’s Android app, which sends text messages to and from your desktop or tablet via the cloud is now...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 10, 2012

LinuxCon/CloudOpen Party Details Revealed

LinuxCon is known for its deep technical content and unmatched networking opportunities. This year LinuxCon and CloudOpen will provide 140 sessions, 15 keynotes, nine co-located events, and three onsite Linux training opportunities. But...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 9, 2012

Top Open Source Cloud Headlines, Week of Aug. 6

Open source cloud headlines this week feature the announcement of board elections for the OpenStack Foundation; Red Hat’s new branding as an open cloud company; eBay’s new open source cloud application testing platform; Intel’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 9, 2012

Fujitsu's Yoshiya Eto Becomes Vice Chair of Linux Foundation Board

We are pleased to announce that Yoshiya Eto of Fujitsu is the new Vice Chair of The Linux Foundation board. He joins officers Doug Fischer (Intel), Chairman, Alan Clark (SUSE), Secretary of the Board, and Frank Fanzilli, Treasurer. All...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 8, 2012

Keeping Linux Kernel Training Current

The Linux kernel develops at a truly astonishing pace, with a new major version emerging every two to three months. For both new and already active kernel developers, keeping up with changes and new features is both challenging and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 7, 2012

Intel’s Imad Sousou: Open Cloud Standards will Emerge With More Collaboration

Standardization is the biggest issue facing the open source cloud today, says Imad Sousou, director of Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. Adoption of open formats and interfaces will ensure flexibility and choice for users and vendors...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 7, 2012

Find 'Skater Tux' and Win Cool Linux Skateboard

In case you didn’t already know, the location for this year’s LinuxCon – San Diego – is known for its skaters. That’s right, the skateboarding variety. What happens when you combine the Linux community with a skateboard mecca? You get...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 3, 2012