Red Hat Files New Brief in Software Patent Case

The fight against software patents got a big boost yesterday when one Linux company filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court urging it to uphold last year’s Bilski vs. Doll decision in the Federal appeals court. That vendor was Red...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 2, 2009

Forums: Renovated and Updated

One thing about a web site is that it’s always being renovated. Users make suggestions, developers find ways to improve functionality; it’s a process. As part of that process, the Linux.com forums have gotten a nice makeover this week....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 30, 2009

LinuxCon 2009 Wrap-Up: The Continuing Benefits

Article Source Community-cation September 25, 2009, 11:04 am The first LinuxCon may be over, but the knowledge and community shared at the conference will be around for a long time. Expert sessions, informative keynotes, and multiple...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 25, 2009

LinuxCon: Shuttleworth's Three Methods to Improve FOSS Development

Article Source Community-cation September 24, 2009, 11:28 am Cadence, quality, and design were the core themes of Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth’s closing keynote talk at LinuxCon. Speaking before a combined session of LinuxCon and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 24, 2009

LinuxCon: The Little Things Make All The Difference

The first day of LinuxCon proved to be a big hit amongst many attendees, not just for the quality of content but for the extracurricular activities the event has provided. Last night, the main event was the well-attended Linux Foundation...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 22, 2009

The Cloud and Future Innovation: Nuclear Winter or New Opportunity?

Article Source Community-cation September 18, 2009, 7:19 am Last night, I had the distinct pleasure of speaking at the monthly Fort Wayne, IN LUG meeting. Apparently, they thought I knew something about Linux. It did not take me long to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 18, 2009

Traveling in Real Time

Article Source Linux Weather Forecast Blog September 17, 2009, 10:37 am So I am hitting the road next week. It should be no surprise that LinuxCon and the Linux Plumbers Conference are coming up. I have a talk (the well-travelled Kernel...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 17, 2009

The CodePlex Foundation: First Impressions (and Recommendations)

Article Source Andy Updegrove’s Blog September 14, 2009, 9:42 am Well, it‚Äôs been a busy week in Lake Wobegon, hasn‚Äôt it? First, the Wall Street Journal broke the story that Microsoft had unwittingly sold 22 patents, not to the Allied...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 14, 2009

CMIS Standards Bode Well for Alfresco

The interweaving of open standards and open source software is common enough that it doesn’t always register with folks why open source companies prefer open standards. There’s this automatic assumption that if a company uses open sourced...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 11, 2009

Voting Time Is At Hand: Who's Your Fav Fake Torvalds?

While I was away on vacation a couple of weeks ago, the Fake Linus Torvalds were unleashed upon the Twitter community. Four–count ’em–four prominent members of the information technology community are sharing their inner ids with the rest...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 10, 2009

2.6.31 is Out

Article Source Linux Weather Forecast Blog September 10, 2009, 8:14 am After a development cycle lasting exactly three months (June 9 to September 9), Linus Torvalds has released the 2.6.31 kernel. This cycle saw the inclusion of almost...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 10, 2009

Protecting Linux from Microsoft (Yes, Microsoft Got Caught)

Article Source Jim Zemlin’s Blog September 9, 2009, 1:49 pm Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal‚Äôs Nick Wingfield broke a story on Microsoft selling a group of patents to a third party. The end result of this story is good for...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 9, 2009

RHEL 5.4 Story Avoids Sad Vendor Lock-In Ending for Clouds

Article Source Community-cation September 3, 2009, 1:40 pm The big news coming out of Red Hat for this year’s Red Hat Summit is, at first blush, a little anti-climatic. The release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 seems like just another...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 3, 2009

PS3 Slim Roadmap Leaves Linux Cluster Users Lost

The announcement earlier this month for the new Playstation 3 (PS3) Slim model caused some consternation for Linux users, as it revealed that PS3-maker Sony would no longer support the “Install Other OS” feature that currently operates on...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 31, 2009

Open vs. Closed: the iPhone’s Future or Folly?

Article Source Andy Updegrove’s Blog August 31, 2009, 9:00 am Steve Jobs is a genius of design and marketing, but his track record on calling the right balance between utilizing proprietary arts and public resources (like open source and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 31, 2009

Technology’s Reach and Security’s Grasp

Article Source Andy Updegrove’s Blog August 28, 2009, 6:39 am Modern society harbors many bad habits. One is its penchant for enthusiastically embracing the benefits of new technologies before considering their less desirable side effects....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 28, 2009

Kernel Improvements, Controversies Will Be Focus of LinuxCon Roundtable

Article Source Community-cation August 27, 2009, 6:16 am One of the more popular sessions at LinuxCon is sure to be the Linux Kernel Roundtable, featuring several notable kernel developers, including Jonathan Corbet and Linus Torvalds....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 27, 2009

Korean OSS Contest Opens Doors to Worldwide Developers

The deadline is fast approaching for open source developers to participate in Open Source Software Challenge 2009 contest, hosted by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy of South Korea. Until August 30, students and any other developer who...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 21, 2009

So What About Those XML Patents, Anyway?

Article Source Andy Updegrove’s Blog August 21, 2009, 8:43 am Mea Culpa. I am uncharacteristically late in commenting on the XML Wars of August, 2009, which have already received so much attention in the press and in the blogs of the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 21, 2009

How Safe is your Credit/Debit Card?

Article Source Andy Updegrove’s Blog August 20, 2009, 8:56 am Cybersecurity is an increasingly frequent topic in the news, and this week brought word of the indictment of someone who must be the leading contender for the title, Master...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 20, 2009

New Linux.com Features Encourage Contribution

When Linux.com first launched, we knew that as feature-packed as the site was, there were some additional features we wanted to add to the site when the time came to make Linux.com even better. That time has come. As you can see from the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 19, 2009

Oracle Pitches Software Appliances to ISVs

OpenSource World got started today, and Oracle was one of the first companies to use the revamped event as a platform to announce some interesting news: a bigger push into software appliances with the launch of their new Oracle VM Template...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 12, 2009

LinuxCon: When Open Source Is Not Enough

As LinuxCon moves closer, we’ve been talking to the keynote speakers for the event, to get a sense of what their message to attendees will be and to give attendees a better sense of where the message is coming from. Next up in our series...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 11, 2009

Programming

Article Source Linus Torvalds’s Blog August 9, 2009, 12:48 pm I’ve actually written code lately, although for some reason it’s been all these stupid projects. First I needed to fix the kernel tty refcounting, then I got all OCD on the git...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 9, 2009

IBM: UNIX to Linux Migration Rate Growing

Article Source Community-cation August 7, 2009, 9:24 am The question of whether Linux is ready for the enterprise has long been answered by the enormous success the operating system has had in enterprise and data center adoption. The new...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 7, 2009