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

Amahi's Open Source Home Server Software Goes Mobile

Following a recent trend in network attached storage (NAS), Amahi, the open source home server software based on Linux, has added remote network access using its new mobile app for iOS and a forthcoming Android app. The apps are the latest...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Jan 7, 2014

The Most Popular Linux Stories of 2013 on Linux.com

2013 was another great year for Linux, and as usual many of the top trends in the Linux and tech worlds, in general, are evident in the most popular original articles published here on Linux.com. The rise of the low-cost, single-board...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 30, 2013

A Summer Spent on the Linux Kernel Virtual File System

Calvin Owens has learned a lot about bug hunting and fixing just by following the discussion among developers on the Linux kernel mailing list. He’s even contributed a few small driver fixes over the past year. But his first real deep dive...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 20, 2013

Focus on Fedora 20 Features: ARM

It’s been a long time coming, but the Fedora 20 “Heisenbug” release brings ARM to equal status in Fedora with x86 and x86_64 releases. The Fedora 20 release, out just more than a month after the 10th anniversary of the first Fedora...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 19, 2013

The People Who Support Linux: Snowden Revelations Spur Engineer's Open Source Donation

Shocked and chastened by Edward Snowden’s revelation this year of a vast NSA surveillance program, Antonius Kies resolved to better support free and open source software development. Thus Kies, a Linux desktop user and an engineer at Graz...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 18, 2013

2013: The Year of Linux on the...Everything

In the Linux community we love predicting that this is the year of Linux in cars, or in gaming, or yes, even the desktop. But in fact, this was the year of Linux in everything. From smartphones, tablets, consumer appliances and cars, to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 17, 2013

Win Free Linux Loot: Who Said This?

The Linux Foundation today is premiering its end-of-year video,Linux 2013: Changing the World One Line of Code at a Time. It was a phenomenal year of growth for Linux. It is the fastest-growing operating system in the enterprise where it’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 17, 2013

The Top 10 Best Linux Videos of 2013

This list of the best Linux videos of 2013 combines some of the most watched Linux Foundation videos of the year, along with a selection of the most inspiring, compelling, or just plain fun videos produced by others in the Linux community....  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 12, 2013

Focus on Fedora 20 Features: Hadoop in Heisenbug

The Fedora 20 release is tantalizingly close, but even without the final gold seal of approval we have a clear picture of the features that users will be enjoying very soon. One of the additions to Fedora 20 is the inclusion of Apache...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 12, 2013

Open Source Tears Down Walled Gardens to Connect Internet of Everything

The numbers are staggering. Gartner predicts that the Internet of Everything or the Internet of Things — autonomous communication between a wide range of everyday devices, objects and applications – will add $1.9 trillion to the global...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Dec 10, 2013