Articles by The Linux Foundation

MakerBot's Creative Revolution Runs on Linux

Three dimensional printing has surged in popularity among consumers and manufacturers alike as costs come down and the range of available applications expands. In five years, the global 3D printing market is expected to reach $7.2 billion,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 25, 2014

Learn KVM and Receive Exclusive Invitation to Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit

Linux and open virtualization technologies are helping push the limits of IT infrastructure to support cloud computing, high-availability data centers and more. From KVM to Xen Project and more, SysAdmins have more opportunity than ever...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 24, 2014

PGP Web of Trust: Delegated Trust and Keyservers

Welcome to the second installment of the “PGP Web of Trust” series. In the previous article, we looked at the very basics of how the web of trust works and now should have a good understanding of the following: You vouch for someone’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 24, 2014

Five Key Features of a Project Designed for Open Collaboration

There are many open source software projects out there today and any list of open source licenses alone shows you how much project diversity is out there. Just take a look at Github, Apache, Eclipse or The Linux Foundation and you’ll find...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 20, 2014

Linux Video of the Week: kGraft Live Kernel Patching Demo

Late last month SUSE announced it’s been working on an open source research project that allows live, runtime patching of the Linux kernel. Currently in the prototype stage, kGraft promises to cut system downtime – a direct benefit to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 20, 2014

Leaked: Linux’s Look Back Facebook Video

Just for Fun… After trying to conceal its Facebook posts from the world for nearly a decade, Linux’s Look Back Facebook video leaked today. It’s clear from the video that all of the operating system’s success hasn’t gone to its head,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 20, 2014

As Tech Jobs Increase, Linux Skills Top Priority List for Hiring Managers

US News & World Report recently published its annual ranking of the world’s “100 Best Jobs,” which orders the best occupations by demand, salary and employment rate, among other factors. For the very first time, Software Developer ranked...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 19, 2014

Linux Jobs Report: Linux Pros Work For the Love of Linux, Cutting-Edge Tech

Linux professionals are well paid and highly sought after by job recruiters, but that’s not why they chose their careers. They are motivated by their love of Linux and working with the latest, cutting edge technology, according to the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 19, 2014

Linux Video of the Week: Inside the OpenDaylight SDN Project

Earlier this month at the OpenDaylight Summit, the software defined networking project announced its first code release, called Hydrogen. Their open source controller is now available for download, published for everyone to see and use....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 14, 2014

What Does Your Linux Candy Heart Say?

How does the penguin community celebrate February 14 every year? Is it with a box of chocolates? Maybe if it’s sitting next to our keyboards alongside multiple coffee mugs. What about little Necco Sweethearts? Those “luv you” messages seem...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 13, 2014

An Introduction to the AWS Command Line Tool

Amazon Web Services has an extremely functional and easy to use web console called the AWS Management Console. It’s brilliant for performing complex tasks on your AWS infrastructure, although as a Linux sysadmin, you may want something...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 12, 2014

Pennsylvania High School Rolls Out 1,700 Linux Laptops to Students

A few weeks before Penn Manor High School gave Linux laptops to every student, stacks of the unboxed machines filled a cafeteria. There the Lancaster, Pa. district’s IT staff, high school apprentices and volunteers spent winter break...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 11, 2014

Linux Video of the Week: Sailfish Mobile OS Updates

Jolla’s Linux-based Sailfish project released its first handset in Finland this past November to favorable reviews. Since then the Meego-derived mobile operating system has publicized a few small, but interesting updates, including a new...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 30, 2014

CFPs Due! ApacheCon, CloudStack, LF Collaboration Summit, Android Builders Summit & ELC

Linux Foundation Vice President and creator of LinuxCon and CloudOpen Amanda McPherson recentlyblogged about our 2014 event schedule. New on the calendar this year is the addition of both ApacheCon and the CloudStack Collaboration...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 29, 2014

Upstart SolidXK Distro Seeks First Business Customers

SolydXK started last March as the unofficial Linux Mint Debian Edition with KDE. Though there had been speculation that an official KDE version of the popular desktop distribution would surface, ZDNet wrote recently, SolydXK co-founders...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 28, 2014

SysAdmin Class Teaches Ins and Outs of a Good Local Security Policy

Sarah Kiden had never used Linux before she landed a job four years ago as a Web and E-learning Administrator at Uganda Christian University in Kampala. There she is in charge of maintaining the university’s information systems on servers...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 24, 2014

Celebrating the Marriage of Automotive and Consumer Electronics at CES

With an average number of 315 weddings per day, Las Vegas definitely takes a top spot on the list of locations for forging bonds. Ever since Ford CEO Alan Mulally’s keynote at CES 2010 the automotive industry has come back to Sin City in...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 24, 2014

Linux Video of the Week: Tour Qualcomm's Smart Home at CES

The big news this week was Google’s planned acquisition of Nest Labs, but as Jim Zemlin, Rudi Streif and Eric Brown all wrote on Linux.com, the Nest thermostat and smoke alarm are a few among many Linux-based home automation products in...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 17, 2014

CentOS Project Leader Karanbir Singh Opens Up on Red Hat Deal

In the 10 years since the CentOS project was launched there has been no board of directors, or legal team, or commercial backing. The developers who labored to build the community-led version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) worked...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 16, 2014

kdbus details

Now that linux.conf.au is over, there has been a bunch of information running around about the status of kdbus and the integration of it with systemd. So, here’s a short summary of what’s going on at the moment. Lennart Poettering gave a...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 15, 2014

Google Buys Nest Labs, Demonstrates Value of Linux Goes Well Beyond the Kernel

Google this week announced it would acquire Nest Labs, which makes the wildly popular Linux-based, Wi-fi enabled and programmable Nest thermostat and smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. A $3.2 billion deal, this acquisition demonstrates...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 15, 2014

What I Saw on the CES Show Floor: Your Work on Display

CES is a beast: hundreds of announcements, overbooked hotels and crowded booths combine to make even the most frequent conference goer’s head spin. But it’s not the beast that’s of note. It’s the silent giant in those crowded booths that...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 14, 2014

8 Innovative Linux-Based Products Demoed at CES

Once again the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week turned into the Mecca of electronic and mobile technology drawing over 150,000 pilgrims looking to experience the latest and greatest what the industry has to offer. If...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 14, 2014

Linux Drives Automotive Innovation into the New Year

With the addition just last week of the Google-led Open Automotive Alliance, nearly every automaker in the world is choosing Linux for technology integration and innovation in the car. This reminds me a lot of the early days of Linux in...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 13, 2014

Linux Video of the Week: Matthew Garrett Argues for Better Security in 2014

In his keynote talk at LinuxConf Australia this week, Linux kernel developer Matthew Garrett argues that the software industry can help improve security at every level of the stack – and that it’s possible to do so without sacrificing user...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 10, 2014