Articles by The Linux Foundation

Opening Up in New Ways: How the OpenPOWER Foundation is Taking Open to New Places

It’s no secret that open development is the key to rapid and continuous technology innovation. Openly sharing knowledge, skills and technical building blocks is something that we in the Linux community have long been promoting and have...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 25, 2014

Video: Which Super Hero Would the Linux Community Be?

A Reddit thread posted earlier this week posed the question, “What if Linux distros were super heroes?” Would Ubuntu be Superman? We’ll leave it to the Redditors to debate that one. But we can weigh in on the question “Which super hero...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 23, 2014

Three Open Source Hardware Projects' Challenges and Successes

While open source practices have come to dominate the software industry, they’re still fairly new to hardware. Many open source hardware projects are now seeing some early success but there are still many challenges ahead, as the keynote...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 23, 2014

LinuxCon and CloudOpen 2014 Keynote Videos Available

Video recordings of the LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America keynotes are now available on the Linux Foundation YouTube channel, and are embedded below, here. The event started Wednesday, Aug. 20, with Executive Director Jim Zemlin’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 21, 2014

Local Motors: Cars Should be Open Source Hardware

Though Local Motors was the first car company to produce an open source vehicle, Founder Jay Rogers says it is not an open source car company. It’s a hardware company. Traditional car companies have long product cycles, intricate assembly...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 21, 2014

What is Docker, Really? Founder Solomon Hykes Explains

Docker has quickly become one of the most popular open source projects in cloud computing. With millions of Docker Engine downloads, hundreds of meetup groups in 40 countries and dozens upon dozens of companies announcing Docker...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 21, 2014

Linux Growth Demands Bigger Talent Pool

Today at LinuxCon and CloudOpen we’re making an announcement that signifies the natural next step in helping to build a qualified talent pool of Linux professionals worldwide:The Linux Foundation Certification Program. We sought to create...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 20, 2014

Video: Everybody Do the Zombie Shuffle and More Linux Trivia

What is a zombie shuffling desk? What does the d in systemd stand for? Test your knowledge of these Linux trivia questions and watch your fellow Linux community members, including kernel developer and Linux Foundation Fellow Greg...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 20, 2014

Thanks For Making Games Faster: Top 10 Quotes from the Linux Kernel Developer Panel

Linux gamers owe a debt of gratitude to kernel developer Andy Lutomirski for his recent work getting 32-bit programs to run faster on a 64-bit kernel, said Greg Kroah-Hartman during the Linux kernel panel today at LinuxCon and CloudOpen...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 20, 2014

LinuxCon and CloudOpen This Week in Chicago

The Linux Foundation’s largest event of the year takes place this week in Chicago, starting with the co-located Linux Security Summit, Linux Kernel Summit and Xen Developer Summit today and tomorrow. Then on Wednesday LinuxCon and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 18, 2014

Linux Kernel Git Repositories Add 2-Factor Authentication

For a few years now we have been mandating a fairly strict authentication policy for those developers who commit directly to the git repositories housing the Linux kernel. Each is issued their own ssh private key, which then becomes the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 18, 2014

IBM's Doug Balog: Infrastructure Matters More Than Ever

IT infrastructure has long been an enterprise commodity – relatively cheap and abundant. But hardware is no less important in solving today’s IT challenges, from big data and the cloud, to mobile, social and security, says Doug Balog, the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 12, 2014

Scholarships Help Increase Access to Linux Education

What does a file system engineer living in Minnesota have in common with a woman from Uganda working on maintaining Linux systems and a research and computing scientist working at a medical university? They were among the five Linux...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 12, 2014

Red Hat Ceph Enterprise Brings Software Defined Storage to Big Data

Red Hat last month released the latest version of Inktank Ceph Enterprise, their object and block storage product based on the upstream open source Ceph project. It’s notable not only as the first release since Red Hat acquired the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 7, 2014

Open Prosthetics Founder: Challenges Ahead for Open Source Medical Devices

Before he lost his arm serving as a Marine in Iraq in 2005, Jonathan Kuniholm was pursuing a PhD in biomedical engineering. Now as a founder and president of the Open Prosthetics Project Kuniholm is working to make advanced, inexpensive...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 7, 2014

A Haiku Poem Dedicated to Systemd

Congratulations to Zach Villers, the second winner of our Linux poetry writing contest. Zach has won a free pass to LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America, Aug. 20-22 in Chicago, for his Systemd haiku. “I wrote the Haiku after a particularly...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 4, 2014

10 Good Reasons To Learn Linux

Our Introduction to Linux edX course starts today, so if you’re not already enrolled, here are 10 reasons why you should sign up now: You’ll be getting a $2,400 training course for free. You won’t be the only person in your subreddit NOT...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 1, 2014

Free Intro to Linux Online Course Starts Today

The Linux Foundation’s free online course, Introduction to Linux, started today on the edX website. Students have already begun to take the course, which covers the basic tools and techniques commonly used by Linux programmers, system...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 1, 2014

The Companies that Support Linux: Daynix Consults on Cloud and Virtualization Technologies

The modern data center is rapidly evolving, with the advent of cloud computing bringing new technologies, tools and best practices. As enterprises seek to understand and take advantage of emerging areas in virtualization and the cloud such...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Aug 1, 2014

EdX CEO Anant Agarwal: Open Source is the Future of Education

Starting this Friday, Aug. 1, the more than 300,000 students who registered for the Linux Foundation’s free Introduction to Linux course on edX will be able to log in and start learning Linux. It is the first Massive Open Online Course...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 28, 2014

Linux Foundation SysAdmin Aric Gardner Avoids a GUI at All Costs

Happy SysAdmin Day! This profile is part of a series on Linux Foundation system administrators over the past three weeeks. Do you have a super-hero sysadmin you’d like to recognize? Send your nomination to This e-mail address is being...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 24, 2014

SysAdmin Day 2014: Best Linux Foundation SysAdmin Quotes

Happy SysAdmin Day 2014! Over the past three weeks we’ve been profiling the Linux Foundation’s heroic team of system administrators in honor of the amazing work they do behind the scenes to keep this organization and our collaborative...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 24, 2014

Linux Foundation SysAdmin Eric Searcy Lives By Regex

This profile is part of a series on Linux Foundation system administrators leading up to SysAdmin Day on Friday. Do you have a super-hero sysadmin you’d like to recognize? Send your nomination to This e-mail address is being protected from...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 23, 2014

MakerBot Offers Lessons in Open Source Innovation with Linux

Earlier this month, Home Depot began selling MakerBot’s Linux-based 3D printers in a handful of stores across the U.S. after a 3-month trial run online. The big box pilot is not only testing consumer appetite for 3D printing hardware, but...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 22, 2014

Linux Foundation SysAdmin Clint Savage Reminisces on Weeklong Hackfest

This is the fourth profile in a series on Linux Foundation system administrators leading up to SysAdmin Day. Do you have a super-hero sysadmin you’d like to recognize? Send your nomination to This e-mail address is being protected from...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jul 21, 2014