Articles by The Linux Foundation

Smartphone Lead Predicted for Linux

Article Source Brian Proffitt’s Blog March 3, 2009, 6:45 am A new study from analyst firm In-Stat makes the dual case that smartphones will make up 20 percent of the total handheld market by 2013, and the operating system that will lead in...  Read More
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Of Course, They Weren't Really Gone

Article Source Brian Proffitt’s Blog February 27, 2009, 11:42 am In all of the PR about Red Hat’s move from Xen to KVM and the SolidICE/SPICE desktop virtualization tools earlier this week, it almost got missed that when Red Hat starts...  Read More
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Entry-Level Development

Article Source Brian Proffitt’s Blog February 23, 2009, 2:44 pm We have a great thing in Linux, but the question I have is, how do we as a community introduce the real newcomers to programming to the joys of the operating system? read more  Read More
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How to Evaluate Open Source Projects?

Article Source Amanda McPherson’s Blog February 18, 2009, 12:27 pm If youâÃôre in the open source world, you probably donâÃôt need a lot of convincing about the high quality software that results from the open source development model....  Read More
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Open Season for Linux Contests

Article Source Amanda McPherson’s Blog January 24, 2009, 12:04 pm Contests, at their best, can highlight creative thinking and originality.¬â In the Linux community, there seems to be an serious overabundance of both.¬â Four different...  Read More
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The Week of the Linux Desktop Debate

Article Source Amanda McPherson’s Blog December 19, 2008, 9:40 am It never seems to fail: this time of year brings out predictions, and with them debate about the future of Linux, especially on the desktop. It‚Äôs a good sign that we go...  Read More
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Linus Torvalds Interview, Part II

Jim Zemlin‚Äôs conversation with Linus Torvalds continues with the posting of Part II of their interview. Linus comments on a variety of topics including patents, internal and external competition, the broader adoption of Linux, Microsoft...  Read More
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Welcome to Open Voices

Today the Linux Foundation is launching a podcast series that will feature conversations with the leaders of open source. For our inaugural post, we are pleased to present part one of our conversation with Linus Torvalds, creator of the...  Read More
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