Articles by The Linux Foundation

Answers to Your Q's on Free Intro to Linux Course from edX Twitter Chat

Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin and edX CEO and MIT professor Anant Agarwal answered questions in a live Twitter chat yesterday about the free Intro to Linux training course that will be available on the edX online learning...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 4, 2014

Red Hat's Jason Hibbets: How Open Source Software is Changing City Government

Linux and open source software have demonstrated that collaborative development is a successful model for rapid innovation in the tech sector. Now that model is being applied in other industries from health care, to city government, to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 2, 2014

Free Linux MOOCs: Live Twitter Chat April 3, 8 a.m. PST with edX CEO and Linux Foundation Executive Director

Starting this summer, The Linux Foundation’s Intro to Linux training course will be available for free on edX, the online learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT. The course has already attracted nearly 100,000 registrations since it...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 1, 2014

How Samsung is Bringing Open Source Culture Inside the Firewall

Software companies have long realized the economic and strategic value of using and contributing code to external open source projects. But they’re much slower to understand and apply the same open source methods of collaboration to their...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 27, 2014

Best Quotes from the Linux Kernel Developer Panel

Linux kernel developers Greg Kroah-Hartman, Jens Axboe, Dave Chinner, Matthew Garrett, and Mel Gorman participated in a panel discussion, moderated by LWN Editor Jon Corbet, at Collaboration Summit on Wednesday. Here are some of the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 27, 2014

Panel: How to Enable Large-Scale Collaboration

Companies are increasingly turning to collaborative software development to build their products and services and speed innovation, keynote presenters at Collaboration Summit told us this morning. But how does this process actually happen?...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 26, 2014

New Report: The Way Software is Built is Changing. Are You a Part of the Trend?

Open source software was first introduced in the enterprise by developers who used it in secret. CIOs and other managers would assert there wasn’t any open source within their walls only to uncover multiple skunkworks projects built on and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 26, 2014

Watch Live Video of Collaboration Summit Keynotes on March 26

Can’t make it to Napa this week? Catch the Linux Foundation’s live video stream of Collaboration Summit keynotes on Wednesday, March 28, starting at 9:30 a.m. PST. (Login required) And check back into Linux.com for regular updates and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 25, 2014

Red Hat's Chris Wright: Telco Industry Poised for Open Source Disruption

As an OpenDaylight project board member and the technical director of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) at Red Hat, Chris Wright knows what it takes to launch a successful open source, collaborative project. He’ll share some of what he’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 24, 2014

Linux Video of the Week: Why Open Source Will Change Networking

Open source software will dramatically accelerate change in the networking industry over the next few years through software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV), according to a new report released this week...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 21, 2014

Xen Project Shares Lessons of Collaborative Project Success

It’s been almost one year since the Xen Project open source hypervisor joined The Linux Foundation as a Collaborative Project. In that time the project has added new corporate members and developers and expanded into new technologies....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 21, 2014

Neela Jacques: Why Collaborative Development is Right for Software-Defined Networking

There are a number of open source software business models that companies employ today. These approaches fall along a spectrum of openness, from companies building their products and services utilizing fully open, raw code to a mostly...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 20, 2014

Qualcomm's Liat Ben-Zur: Open Source Collaboration Works

Earlier this year, Qualcomm wowed technology industry executives and analysts with a tour of its smart connected home at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The tour demonstrated how the Linux-based home automation platform AllJoyn...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 18, 2014

Linux Kernel Developer Panel Preview: Introductions and Projects

Unless you closely follow the Linux kernel mailing list, it can be difficult to keep up with all of the latest kernel features and changes, especially as the pace and scale of development continues to rise. More than 1,300 developers from...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 17, 2014

Linux Video of the Week: Preview of Web Browser Gaming via Unreal Engine 4 in Firefox

While Valve has been busy proving that Linux and open source are the future of gaming with the Steam operating system and gaming consoles, Mozilla and Epic Games have been making their own strides in the open source gaming revolution on...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 13, 2014

Free "Intro to Linux" Course - Coming Summer 2014

On March 6, the Linux Foundation announced it is building a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) program with edX. Read more at Linux Training Staff Blog  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 10, 2014

Linux Video of the Week: Yocto Project Saves Embedded Linux Devs from Frankenstein OS

The Internet of Things market will grow in the next few years to reach more than $7 trillion, according to IDC, or up to $17 trillion if you believe Cisco CEO John Chambers. And as the number of devices with network connectivity and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 7, 2014

What is the GnuTLS Bug and How to Protect Your Linux System From It

It seems that it’s only been a few weeks since we all heard of a nasty certificate validation error in Apple’s software, a.k.a. the infamous “double goto fail” bug. While some were quick to point out that Linux distributions were not...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 6, 2014

SUSE Labs Director Talks Live Kernel Patching with kGraft

SUSE Labs last month announced details of its kGraft research project to enable live patching of the Linux kernel. The solution has its benefits, including reduced need for downtime and easier downtime scheduling. It also has some...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 4, 2014

IBM's Mike Day: KVM More Visible Through Collaboration

About a year ago IBM doubled down on its commitment to the open source cloud, announcing that all of its cloud offerings would be built on OpenStack and renewing its investments in KVM, the Linux-based kernel virtual machine. Since then,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 4, 2014

An Introduction to the AWS Command Line Tool Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, I introduced awscli, a powerful command line interface which can be used to manage AWS services. I’d like to continue digging deeper into awscli by provisioning a Volume with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 3, 2014

Putting Tizen in Context

The lights are off, the booths are packed up, the devices tucked away, and it’s 5:30 a.m. in the Barcelona airport. Guess it’s time for a Tizen update. There’s been a lot written about the most recent Tizen devices (Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 28, 2014

LTSI v3.10 is Now Released

Long Term Support Initiative (LTSI) Kernel Maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman this week released LTSI-3.10. This latest version, released on Feb. 24, has brought more than 2,500 additional patches on top of the 3.10 Stable Kernel maintained by...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 27, 2014

Linux Video of the Week: Hands-On with the $25 Firefox Phone

All of the major mobile Linux OS players, from Tizen and Firefox to Sailfish and Ubuntu, had exciting announcements at Mobile World Congress this week (see our coverage of Samsung’s Tizen smartwatches and an overview of all of the mobile...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 27, 2014

Dice: How Linux Hiring Compares with the Rest of Tech

The job prospects for Linux professionals are better than ever according to the latest Dice.com and Linux Foundation Jobs Report released last week. Seventy-seven percent of hiring managers are prioritizing Linux jobs above other openings,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 26, 2014