Linux.com Planning Meeting Details

We’re preparing for this Friday’s Linux.com Planning Meeting at the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit. The session begins at 9 a.m. PT and will take place in room Osaka. We’re expecting this year’s Linux.com Gurus to join us and we...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 13, 2010

IBM’s Open Source Patent Pledge

For those of us that have worked for years in open source, rumors in the press of IBM “breaking its open source patent pledge” were met with a bit of dismay. IBM is one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel and dozens of critical...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 7, 2010

QA with Parallels CEO: Prioritizing Kernel-Level Contributions

With more than a decade under its belt, Parallels ranks among the most active corporate contributors to the Linux kernel and says that is serves 10 million users in 125 countries. The company today is joining The Linux Foundation and is...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 6, 2010

Silly Grin

This is actually from last year (LCA in Tasmania), but Oscar, who took the picture, was diving around the world for many months and only made the pictures he took available to me the other day. I thought I had a good life, but Oscar and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 1, 2010

QA with IBM's Dan Frye: "Everything Has Changed"

IBM is celebrating more than a decade working with Linux, and Dan Frye was the co-author of the original IBM corporate strategies for Linux and open source. Dan today is vice president of Open Systems Development and will be keynoting at...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 1, 2010

QA with IBM's Dan Frye: "Everything Has Changed"

IBM is celebrating more than a decade working with Linux, and Dan Frye was the co-author of the original IBM corporate strategies for Linux and open source. Dan today is vice president of Open Systems Development and will be keynoting at...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 1, 2010

Congratulations to the First Ever Linux.com Gurus!

Today we are announcing the 2010 Linux.com Linux Gurus and want to thank them and the rest of the Linux.com community for their important contributions to the site. Linux.com is built for the community by the community and represents the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 23, 2010

One Year Later: What Do You Think of Linux.com?

This month marks the one-year anniversary of Linux.com in its newest form. A year ago, we built the site based on your rankings of features on IdeaForge. Today, we want to hear how you’re using Linux.com and what is most useful. And...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 12, 2010

How to Learn Embedded Linux (For Free Again)

In the past few years, the use of Linux in embedded devices has skyrocketed. Televisions, phones, cars, ATMs: you name it, it probably has Linux running in it. At the recent Mobile World Congress, Linux dominated virtually every product...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 2, 2010

Built to Last

It has now been almost exactly five years since kernel development community tentatively started using the git source code management system with the 2.6.12-rc2 commit. That was an uncertain time; nobody really knew how long it would take...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 24, 2010

Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing...

I’m probably moving my office to be above the garage. In preparation for that, I did the whole “get CAT6 networking to the new location” thing, which has involved re-acquainting myself with our crawlspace. Spending my days crawling around,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 24, 2010

Microsoft/Amazon Deal: Nothing to See Here

Microsoft today issued a news release to announce a patent cross-license agreement with Amazon. And, the news release, in the lead, explicitly calls out a set of technologies covered by the agreement: the Kindle, which employs open source...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 22, 2010

Demons? Really?

So I was in Costco waiting for a car tire rotation and check yesterday. Wasting time, I blew three bucks on a slice of pizza and a sundae, and looked around for a place to sit down and pig out. The place was packed, and it was the middle...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 19, 2010

Bringing the Magic to Linux with MeeGo

Bringing the Magic to Linux with MeeGo A few weeks ago, I wrote that the Linux Foundation was going to put its money where its mouth is in order to create more “magic” on Linux. Today the Linux operating system market just got a lot more...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 14, 2010

CodePlex Foundation Picks Paula Hunter as Executive Director

As you may recall, the CodePlex Foundation indicated in January that it expected to name a permanent Executive Director within a few weeks’ time. That has now happened, and in the “small world” department, the new ED happens to be Paula...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 7, 2010

Happy Camper

I broke down and bought a Nexus One last week. I got the original G1 phone from google when it came out, and I hardly ever used it. Why? I generally hate phones – they are irritating and disturb you as you work or read or whatever – and a...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 6, 2010

What to Expect at LinuxCon 2010 this August in Boston!

The call for participation and registration opened for LinuxCon today signaling the beginning of planning for the 2nd Annual LinuxCon. To recap on some of the highlights of LinuxCon 2009, which took place in Portland last September, we...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 4, 2010

Linux can compete with the iPad on price, but where’s the magic?

Article Source Jim Zemlin’s Blog ¬â Yesterday I watched Apple’s Steve Jobs unveil the iPad. Jobs clearly can create revolutionary products; he can also produce spin like no one else. Yesterday was no exception. His main message about the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 28, 2010

Linux Market Needs More Talent

¬â The Linux Foundation today announced a free Linux training Webinar series and an expanded set of courses and course locations for its existing training program. There is no coincidence that this shortly follows the Foundation’s recent...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 26, 2010

How To Learn Linux From the Developers of Linux. (For Free.)

¬â The Linux community is a pyramid. The base is comprised of millions of Linux users and system administrators. The second level is programmers who work with Linux; some of those developers contribute to the kernel, many do not. The top...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 26, 2010

The Importance of Legal Innovation

Open source software development is innovative and exciting. It has produced the software that runs the internet; Linux, Apache, Firefox, and so much more. In addition to being technically innovative it also has turned business models on...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 20, 2010

Microsoft to Mobile Customers: Choice is a Bad Thing (and Linux Will Lose)

Last week, David Coursey reported that Microsoft entertainment and devices boss Robbie Bach made the prediction in an analyst briefing that Linux on mobile will lose. Why? It’s choice is a bad thing for customers and that there is too much...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 19, 2010

The Alexandria Project, Chap. 1: Meet Frank

This is the first chapter in my new cybersecurity eBook in which you’ll meet Frank, our erstwhile hero, and get your first clue about the tangled train of events yet to unfold: On the morning of Sunday, December 12, a morbidly obese Corgi...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 19, 2010

What Linux Event Should You Attend (and Speak at)?

We just announced our event line-up for 2010 and the Call for Papers for CollabSummit. I’m very excited we’re offering the continuation of events that have been with us for awhile (CollabSummit, Kernel Summit) along with the second year of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 19, 2010

Introducing The Alexandria Project

Those that know me know that I firmly believe that there is a Monty Python vignette, or at least a catchphrase, for every occasion. And on this occasion, that catchphrase is, “And now for something completely different!” How completely...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 17, 2010