Finnish Culture...

Article Source Linus Torvalds’s Blog December 21, 2009, 8:11 am It’s not all that often that we encounter things from Finland here in Portland. So imagine my surprise when we’re on our way to our weekly date-night with Tove, and our...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 21, 2009

A Concise Introduction to Free and Open Source Software

Article Source Andy Updegrove’s Blog December 19, 2009, 8:29 am If you‚Äôre like me, you became fully aware of free and open source software only gradually, rather than suddenly and all at once. In my case, the process was somewhat...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 19, 2009

Shuttleworth Stepping Down as Canonical Head, Silber New CEO in 2010

After five years as CEO of Canonical Ltd., Mark Shuttleworth is stepping down from that role, as current Canonical COO Jane Silber steps up as the new executive leader of the popular Linux distribution vendor. The changeover is starting...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 17, 2009

Smart Phones, eBook Readers, and the Same Old, Same Old

Article Source Andy Updegrove’s Blog December 11, 2009, 6:37 am Plus ca change, plus c‚Äôest la meme chose ‚Äî French Proverb Ah yes ‚Äî ‚ÄúThe more things change, the more they stay the same.‚Äù Isn‚Äôt that how the old saw goes? Or, in...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 11, 2009

2010 Linux Events Foster Community, Business Opportunities

Article Source Community-cation December 10, 2009, 7:01 am The technology event season has come to a close, as the holidays approach and 2009 draws to its end. This was a great year for events in the Linux community. Several regional Linux...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 10, 2009

Browser Shares Reveal True Benefits of Open Source

Article Source Community-cation December 7, 2009, 7:21 am There was a good story on Ars Technica last week about the current state of browser share on the Internet. Browser news is always interesting because it gives us one window into how...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 7, 2009

Chrome OS Sparks Vendor Enthusiasm, Innovation

Article Source Community-cation December 3, 2009, 7:18 am Some of you might be too young to remember the space race: the frenzied decades of the ’50s and ’60s where the US and the USSR poured massive resources to be the First [Anything] in...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 3, 2009

Where Performance is King

We are often so focused on the end-user or business experience of the computers we use on a daily basis that we sometimes forget about the nuts-and-bolts side of IT–a side of technology where performance is king no matter what platform,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 30, 2009

Putting Trust in the Cloud

Article Source Community-cation November 25, 2009, 7:54 am If you have any gold in your portfolio, then you are indeed a fortunate soul. With gold at an all-time high, upwards of US$1,100 per Troy ounce, lots of people with this precious...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 25, 2009

Open Source Gets Bigger CeBIT Spotlight

Article Source Community-cation November 18, 2009, 10:40 am The strong growth of open source in IT will be demonstrated with its prominent placement at the world’s largest computer event, CeBIT 2010. That’s the news coming out of Hannover,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 18, 2009

The Birth of the SGIP (Live from Denver)

Article Source Andy Updegrove’s Blog November 16, 2009, 6:26 pm Over the next ten years, tens, and possibly hundreds of millions, of new platforms are going to be put into place in the United States as part of a new national...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 16, 2009

Corporate IT Policies More Linux-Friendly

Article Source Community-cation November 16, 2009, 7:03 am As the week began, I had the fortune to come across an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal that addressed the problem employees face all-too-often in the workplace: the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 16, 2009

Cox, Gleixner, Ts'o Elected to Technical Advisory Board

Article Source Community-cation November 11, 2009, 5:04 am Besides excellent sessions and networking opportunities, there’s usually behind-the-scenes action going on at our many events: meetings and get-togethers for any one, and sometimes...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 11, 2009

Cross-Platform Coding for Visual Studio Developers via Mono

Article Source Community-cation November 10, 2009, 5:41 am One of the big challenges facing Linux development is the straightforward issue of actually having developers to write the code. As more academic and vocational training centers...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 10, 2009

The Importance of an Open Internet

Article Source Community-cation November 5, 2009, 9:45 am The concept of net neutrality is an issue that’s been bandied about for a few years now in the US–among several other political hot potatoes you have probably heard about. Being...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 5, 2009

Plug Into Your Favorite Linux.com RSS Feed

Managing your RSS feeds, once a novelty, has become a task you need to perform almost monthly, as you find interesting new feeds on a daily basis. There are various tips to handling multiple RSS feeds, including the most common trick of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 4, 2009

Digitization and the (Vanishing) Arts of the Book

Article Source Andy Updegrove’s Blog November 2, 2009, 5:47 am It‚Äôs easy to appreciate the wonders of the Web, and all of the riches that the Internet brings into our lives. All of which makes it easy indeed not to notice the things that...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Nov 2, 2009

The Constantine Code and the Missing Standard!

Article Source Andy Updegrove’s Blog October 27, 2009, 7:22 am One of the realities that every standards professional must deal with is the sad fact that everyone else in the world thinks that standards are‚Ķ [start over; no one else...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 27, 2009

The Promise of Mobile Computing

There’s been a lot of noise made about the benefits of mobile computing. It will keep us connected, it will be make life more convenient, and we can watch movies of dancing Internet kittehs where ever we might be. Well, maybe not that last...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 22, 2009

IBM, Canonical Switch Up Their Smart Work Game

Last month during LinuxCon, IBM and Canonical announced their Client for Smart Work initiative: a client package that runs Ubuntu and uses Eclipse and Lotus products to provide users with a solid client with the capability to connect to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 20, 2009

Cloud Computing Too Costly in the Long Term?

During their own Sept. 29 Cloud Computing Summit, IDC made what at first glance sounded like a self-defeating statement: clouds, in the long run, are actually a more expensive option than a company running its own datacenter. That,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 19, 2009

Bringing Linux to Small Business

Article Source Community-cation October 12, 2009, 10:35 am We are all impressed and excited by the success of commercial Linux vendors. Red Hat, Novell, Canonical, Mandriva, Oracle, and a host of other Linux companies are making great...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 12, 2009

Cisco Contest Milepost on Journey to Open Innovation

Article Source Community-cation October 9, 2009, 6:23 am It’s interesting what the same thing means to different people. We see it time and again in the Linux world, of course, as the myriad approaches to Linux have created different...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 9, 2009

Watch the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference

Right after LinuxCon this year was the co-located Linux Plumbers Conference. This is not an official Linux Foundation event, per se, but we work closely with the organizers to help them any way we can. It’s a great event for system and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 8, 2009

LinuxCon: Keynote, Session Videos Available Now

While there’s little substitute for actually attending an event, so many things were said and done at this year’s LinuxCon, we had to get videos of the event out for public viewing as soon as we could. So, thanks to the fantastic work from...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 6, 2009