Why the Next Steve Jobs Needs a Raspberry Pi, Not Patents

Nicholas Negroponte is always ahead of his time. When he envisioned One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), the average price for a PC was still hundreds of dollars. The industry rallied around his vision for a low-cost PC that anyone could use but...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 1, 2012

The Greatness of Git

When Linus Torvalds says he is going to work on a side project he doesn’t think small and he doesn’t work slowly. When he created “Git,” the software source control and collaboration system that runs Linux kernel development, he started...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 28, 2012

Tizen Conference Announced

Just in case you missed it, the first Tizen conference has been announced! It will be held at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, from May 7-9. The 2012 Tizen Conference will be a good opportunity for developers and device builders to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 24, 2012

The Ever-Changing Linux Skillset

Just because you had what it takes for a good Linux-related job a decade ago, it doesn’t mean that you have what it takes today. The Linux landscape has changed a lot, and the only thing that’s really stayed constant is that a love of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 21, 2012

What Greg Does

With my recent job change, I’m starting to run into a bunch of people asking “What exactly are you going to be doing now?” I’ve tried responding by describing the kernel related stuff I’ve been doing for the past years, and it turns out...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 21, 2012

A Look at the LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards Winners

Every year LinuxQuestions.org hosts a members choice awards, which lets members of the site vote for their favorite Linux distributions and open source applications. There’s not a lot of change in the results from last year, but the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 15, 2012

Why Linux Jobs Are Burning Up the Tech Market: Q&A with Dice.com's Alice Hill

The Linux Foundation, in partnership with Dice.com, today released the results of the first-ever Linux Jobs Report. Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin breaks down the significance of those findings in his blog. In this special...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 14, 2012

Need a Job? New Study Says Learn Linux.

No one disputes that that tech jobs are fueling the economy in the U.S. and around the world. The U.S. President said in his recent State of the Union address that there are twice as many openings in the science and technology sector as...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 14, 2012

The Embedded and Mobile Linux Trends Shaping 2012

We’re preparing for our weeklong extravaganza of mobile and embedded development next week. Android Builders Summit kicks off Monday and ELC follows on Wednesday, taking place February 15-17, 2012. For the really hard-core, we’ve even...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 7, 2012

Zuckerberg is Spot on with “Hacker Way” (but The Linux Community Already Knew That)

Facebook filed its IPO last week , which is big news in and of itself. However, what struck me most was the letter from Mark Zuckerberg to potential investors that puts an exclamation point on something that the Linux community has been...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 6, 2012

A Short Q&A with New Linux Foundation Fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman

The Linux Foundation announced this week that Greg Kroah-Hartman would be joining as a fellow. Kroah-Hartman is joining a small group of developers that work with the foundation on Linux and open source projects. We conducted a short Q&A...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 2, 2012

Get Your Embedded Linux On: Join Me at Yocto Project Developer Day

Building an embedded Linux distribution can be a daunting task. From the Board Support Package (BSP) to Kernel configuration, root file system setup and the selection many additional software package there are many choices to make and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 1, 2012

The Ever-Changing Linux Filesystems: Merging Directoris into /usr

If you don’t like change, working in IT has to be a harrowing experience. That’s particularly true in open source, where few stand on tradition and things move at breakneck pace. The latest change that has a few folks excited? Fedora’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 30, 2012

A Very Short Rant About "Copyrighted" Code

This morning I was reading a site that regularly covers free and open source software. To protect the guilty party (because I suspect the error was one of rushed writing rather than ignorance), I’ll leave out the publication and author....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 26, 2012

A Very Short Rant About "Copyrighted" Code

This morning I was reading a site that regularly covers free and open source software. To protect the guilty party (because I suspect the error was one of rushed writing rather than ignorance), I’ll leave out the publication and author....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 26, 2012

Free Embedded Linux Training at Yocto Developer Day on February 14th

Use of Linux in the mobile/embedded space is exploding, and we find many companies are adopting the open source Yocto project to build custom embedded Linux systems. The project is hosting a free day of training on Yocto on Feb 14th as...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 26, 2012

HP Releases More Details on the Open Sourcing of webOS

This morning, HP gave further details of its contribution of the webOs platform to the open source community. I find these details and the timeline associated with the release to be positive developments, both for Linux and for the wider...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 25, 2012

Looking Back on SCALE 10x

A lot of things change in 10 years. Many of the Linux conferences we were going to in 2002 are no longer around, but the Southern California Linux Expo has not only survived – it’s grown into a major event for anybody interested in Linux....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 24, 2012

Linux Adopton Trends 2012: A Closer Look

Toyota, Google, Facebook, New York Stock Exchange, Burlington Coat Factory, Amazon. These names represent just a handful of the thousands of large companies using Linux today. As early adopters of Linux (some having used the OS well over a...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 19, 2012

From CES: Will HTML5 Threaten the Closed World of the App Store?

Last week I attended the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. A few years ago CES was not on my calendar as a “must-attend” show. While there has been Linux in play in consumer devices for many years, only in the last few years...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 18, 2012

The Best Linux Events of 2012

Gallery View Gallery (11) The Linux Foundation today announced its 2012 Linux events and onsite training schedule. Some highlights include a triple-header in San Diego in August: LinuxCon North America, Linux Plumbers Conference and Linux...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 12, 2012

Updates on the Stable and Longterm Kernel Trees

On Monday, January 9th, Greg Kroah-Hartman published an update on the status of the longterm/stable kernel trees that he’s maintaining. It’s worth a notice if you’re interested in the state of the longterm kernels. We last checked in on...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 11, 2012

Stable kernel release candidates

I thought it would be easier to do a round of stable kernel releases in the middle of the larger kernel merge window, to prevent the next round from being so big (given that there are a lot of patches usually applying during the -rc1 merge...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 10, 2012

Stable kernel tree status, January 9, 2012

As 3.2 is now out, here’s a note as to the current status of the different stable/longterm kernel trees. First off, please everyone remember to mark any patch that you want to have applied to the stable kernel trees with a simple: Cc:...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 10, 2012

Linux Training for Your New Year’s Resolutions

We’ve scheduled several training classes to help you ring in the New Year. Immediately on the horizon is our LF331 Developing Linux Device Drivers class on January 16-20, 2012. LF331 introduces programmers to the Linux kernel and the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 9, 2012