Articles by The Linux Foundation

Slideshow: The Linux Community Celebrates Ada Lovelace Day

Yesterday we celebrated Ada Lovelace, the mathematician and daughter of the poet Lord Byron who is often referred to as the world’s first programmer. In 1843, Lovelace wrote the first published description of an algorithm for Charles...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 15, 2014

Linus Torvalds' Best Quotes from LinuxCon Europe 2014

Linus Torvalds doesn’t regret any of the technical decisions he’s made over the past 23 years since he first created Linux, he said Wednesday at LinuxCon and CloudOpen Europe. “Technical issues, even when they’re completely wrong, and they...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 15, 2014

New Paper Available Today: State of KVM

Over the last decade, virtualization has drastically transformed the way software and services are provisioned and delivered. Coupled with open source hypervisors like Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), these technologies have given way...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 15, 2014

Jono Bacon: Open Source is Where Society Innovates

Throughout history, social and technological progress has been the result of people working together for change. Today community is just as important and instrumental as ever – enabled by the internet and social media, said Jono Bacon,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 14, 2014

Amazon Web Services Aims for More Open Source Involvement

In 2006, Amazon was an e-commerce site building out its own IT infrastructure in order to sell more books. Now, AWS and EC2 are well-known acronyms to system administrators and developers across the globe looking to the public cloud to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 13, 2014

Announcing Dronecode: Expanding the Architecture of Participation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

A few months ago, I met Chris Anderson and Andy Jensen, CEO and COO of 3D Robotics, one of the leading manufacturers of commercial drones. They were interested in creating a software foundation for their open source drone projects and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 13, 2014

LinuxCon, CloudOpen and Embedded Linux Conference Europe This Week

LinuxCon, CloudOpen and Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) Europe will kick off next Monday, Oct. 13, in Dusseldorf, Germany, along with a multitude of co-located events, hack fests, and workshops. The event is sold out but all keynotes will...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 8, 2014

Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Practices is On the Rise

GitHub last month reported that the number of government employees using the code sharing platform had tripled in the past year, to reach more than 10,000 users from 500 organizations. The accompanying graph (re-published here with...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 7, 2014

Jono Bacon: How to Build Exponential Open Source Communities

Open source projects live and die by their communities. Cultivating that core group of developers, administrators, users and other contributors who work together to improve the code base is no easy task, even for experienced community...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 3, 2014

Infographic: Three Facts About the Open Source Cloud

With CloudOpen Europe now less than two weeks away, we took another look at the data from the recent open cloud survey, conducted by Linux.com and The New Stack. Three surprising conclusions emerged that aren’t necessarily obvious on a...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 1, 2014

New Linux Foundation Certification Review Guide Available for Free

Last month we announced the Linux Foundation Certified Engineer and Sys Admin exams that you can take anytime, anywhere through your computer. We created this program because we know Linux talent exists everywhere and we want everyone to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 1, 2014

Open Source Drives Innovation in Another Multi-Billion Dollar Market: World’s Largest Carriers, Vendors to Bring Virtualization

The Linux Foundation today is announcing a new Collaborative Project,Open Platform for NFV, or OPNFV. It involves nearly 40 companies and has largely been driven by end users like AT&T, China Mobile, NTT DOCOMO, Telecom Italia and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 30, 2014

Linux Foundation Certified Engineer Will Sheldon on What It's Like to Pass the Exam

Just a few days after the Linux Foundation announced its new certification program in August, Will Sheldon took the certified engineer exam and passed. Sheldon, an IT manager for open source consulting company Appnovation Technologies,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 24, 2014

Open Source OwnCloud Seeks to Combine Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds

Over the past two years IT managers at the public research universities in Germany’s most populous state, Northrhine-Westfalia, have been researching how to build a private inter-university cloud. It will provide about 6 Petabytes of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 19, 2014

New Video Series Teaches Kids About Linux

Growing up in rural Utah, brothers Jared and JR Neilsen spent their free time recording videos that starred a cast of homemade puppets. As adults they’ve reconvened to create their own web series,Hello World, which aims to teach kids about...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 17, 2014

Qubes: The Open Source OS Built for Security

No matter how good the code review process is, or how high the standards for acceptance, applications will always have bugs, says Joanna Rutkowska, founder and CEO of Invisible Things Lab. So will drivers. And filesystems. “Nobody, not...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 15, 2014

The True Measure of a Successful Open Source Project

A question I get a lot is, “What makes an open source software project successful?” This isn’t a simple question, as every project is really different. But certainly there are some common characteristics: a vibrant and open community and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 15, 2014

Apache Hadoop Transitions to Git

The Apache Infrastructure team has gotten Git migrations down pat. Just ask the Apache Hadoop project, which moved from Subversion to Git in less than 10 days. Hadoop committer Karthik Kambatla says that getting from the request to Infra...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 8, 2014

How Amazon Web Services Uses Linux and Open Source

Amazon Web Services first launched in 2006 with one instance and one operating system: Amazon Linux. The cloud computing giant has since expanded to offer customers the option of running on more than 30 instance types and more than 10...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 8, 2014

Tizen SDK Updated for the Gear S

By now, you’ve probably seen the news about the Tizen-based Gear S smartwatch that was unveiled at IFA. Aside from having a massive curved screen (for a watch, at least), it also has GSM connectivity, meaning it can truly function as a...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 7, 2014

Matthew Garrett's Advice on Hardware, Linux Kernel Careers, and Fruit Flies

The most popular questions posed to Linux kernel developer Matthew Garrett during his Reddit AMA this week related to kernel hacking and hardware issues. But Garrett, a senior security engineer at Nebula, answered frankly on a variety of...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 5, 2014

How Elizabeth Joseph Became a SysAdmin on HP's OpenStack Infrastructure Team

Before Elizabeth Joseph began her career as a system administrator, she was a hobbyist who attended a lot of Linux Users Group meetings in her hometown near Philadelphia. Now she’s an automation and tools engineer at HP, working on the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 2, 2014

The Companies That Support Linux: SanDisk Advances Storage Industry

A growing dependency on digital data has spurred new interest in flash storage technologies along with cloud-based services and storage. With the broadest portfolio of flash-memory based solutions in the industry, SanDisk is on the leading...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 2, 2014

Linux Training Scholarship Application Deadline is Next Tuesday, Sept. 2

Next Tuesday, Sept. 2, is the deadline to apply for The Linux Foundation’s Training Scholarship Program. Don’t miss this opportunity for free tuition on a Linux Foundation training course. The program will award five scholarships to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 28, 2014

Linux Energy Drink: Get Energized with this Recap of LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America

LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America this year hosted the developers and maintainers building the software that is running our lives. It also hosted the DevOps professionals and SysAdmins supporting the systems that keep those lives...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 26, 2014