Articles by The Linux Foundation

Fragmentation is Good and Bad for Linux

Lately I have been hearing criticism about embedded Linux and how fragmentation, as represented by the many flourishing Linux projects such as Meego, Android and webOS, is bad and dangerous for Linux; these critics suggest that...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 11, 2010

The People Who Support Linux

The Linux Foundation’s individual supporters help to support the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and other important activities that advance Linux, while getting a variety of other fun and valuable benefits.It is this collective...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 6, 2010

Jon Corbet QA: Upstream Contributions Influence Direction of Linux Kernel

Jon Corbet is a highly-recognized contributor to the Linux kernel community. He is a developer and the executive editor of Linux Weekly News (LWN). He is also The Linux Foundation’s chief meteorologist, a role in which he translates...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | May 4, 2010

Linux.com T-shirt Design Contest Finalists Announced

Time to Get Out the Vote! Two months ago we invited the community to create its own unique designs to appear on Linux.com Store merchandise – – designs that would invoke feelings of geek pride, freedom, fun, eccentricity and originality....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 26, 2010

Miss Collab Summit? Now You Can See What You Missed

Last week, we had our fourth annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. In the years since our first one at Google in 2007, quite a bit has changed: more mobile content, a bigger audience and a broader collection of developers, industry...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 22, 2010

Announcing the 2010 We’re Linux Video Winners

I am pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 We’re Linux Video Contest. We had quite a few amazing videos to choose from, many of which captured the spirit of Linux. Winners First place: Go Linux...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 19, 2010

Linux.com Gurus at Collaboration Summit

We had a great meeting this morning at the LF Collaboration Summit with the Linux.com Gurus and community members. Here’s a fun picture that includes (from left to right): Masen Marshall, Andrea Benini, David Ames (LF staff) and Matthew...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 16, 2010

QA with rPath Founder & CTO: "Just Use Linux"

There was interesting discussion during Day 1 at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit about virtualization and cloud computing as it relates to Linux. Former Red Hat executive and rPath Founder and CTO Erik Troan took a few minutes to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 15, 2010

QA with rPath Founder & CTO: "Just Use Linux"

There was interesting discussion during Day 1 at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit about virtualization and cloud computing as it relates to Linux. Former Red Hat executive and rPath Founder and CTO Erik Troan took a few minutes to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 15, 2010

QA with Nokia's Ari Jaaksi: MeeGo Revs Up

Nokia’s Vice President of MeeGo Devices, Ari Jaaksi, will kick off the afternoon at today’s Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit with his keynote at 1:15 p.m. PT. He took a few minutes with us this morning to share what he’ll be speaking...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 14, 2010

Linux.com Planning Meeting Details

We’re preparing for this Friday’s Linux.com Planning Meeting at the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit. The session begins at 9 a.m. PT and will take place in room Osaka. We’re expecting this year’s Linux.com Gurus to join us and we...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 13, 2010

IBM’s Open Source Patent Pledge

For those of us that have worked for years in open source, rumors in the press of IBM “breaking its open source patent pledge” were met with a bit of dismay. IBM is one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel and dozens of critical...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 7, 2010

QA with Parallels CEO: Prioritizing Kernel-Level Contributions

With more than a decade under its belt, Parallels ranks among the most active corporate contributors to the Linux kernel and says that is serves 10 million users in 125 countries. The company today is joining The Linux Foundation and is...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 6, 2010

Silly Grin

This is actually from last year (LCA in Tasmania), but Oscar, who took the picture, was diving around the world for many months and only made the pictures he took available to me the other day. I thought I had a good life, but Oscar and...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 1, 2010

QA with IBM's Dan Frye: "Everything Has Changed"

IBM is celebrating more than a decade working with Linux, and Dan Frye was the co-author of the original IBM corporate strategies for Linux and open source. Dan today is vice president of Open Systems Development and will be keynoting at...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 1, 2010

QA with IBM's Dan Frye: "Everything Has Changed"

IBM is celebrating more than a decade working with Linux, and Dan Frye was the co-author of the original IBM corporate strategies for Linux and open source. Dan today is vice president of Open Systems Development and will be keynoting at...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Apr 1, 2010

Congratulations to the First Ever Linux.com Gurus!

Today we are announcing the 2010 Linux.com Linux Gurus and want to thank them and the rest of the Linux.com community for their important contributions to the site. Linux.com is built for the community by the community and represents the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 23, 2010

One Year Later: What Do You Think of Linux.com?

This month marks the one-year anniversary of Linux.com in its newest form. A year ago, we built the site based on your rankings of features on IdeaForge. Today, we want to hear how you’re using Linux.com and what is most useful. And...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 12, 2010

How to Learn Embedded Linux (For Free Again)

In the past few years, the use of Linux in embedded devices has skyrocketed. Televisions, phones, cars, ATMs: you name it, it probably has Linux running in it. At the recent Mobile World Congress, Linux dominated virtually every product...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Mar 2, 2010

Built to Last

It has now been almost exactly five years since kernel development community tentatively started using the git source code management system with the 2.6.12-rc2 commit. That was an uncertain time; nobody really knew how long it would take...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 24, 2010

Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing...

I’m probably moving my office to be above the garage. In preparation for that, I did the whole “get CAT6 networking to the new location” thing, which has involved re-acquainting myself with our crawlspace. Spending my days crawling around,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 24, 2010

Microsoft/Amazon Deal: Nothing to See Here

Microsoft today issued a news release to announce a patent cross-license agreement with Amazon. And, the news release, in the lead, explicitly calls out a set of technologies covered by the agreement: the Kindle, which employs open source...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 22, 2010

Demons? Really?

So I was in Costco waiting for a car tire rotation and check yesterday. Wasting time, I blew three bucks on a slice of pizza and a sundae, and looked around for a place to sit down and pig out. The place was packed, and it was the middle...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 19, 2010

Bringing the Magic to Linux with MeeGo

Bringing the Magic to Linux with MeeGo A few weeks ago, I wrote that the Linux Foundation was going to put its money where its mouth is in order to create more “magic” on Linux. Today the Linux operating system market just got a lot more...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 14, 2010

CodePlex Foundation Picks Paula Hunter as Executive Director

As you may recall, the CodePlex Foundation indicated in January that it expected to name a permanent Executive Director within a few weeks’ time. That has now happened, and in the “small world” department, the new ED happens to be Paula...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Feb 7, 2010