Welcome Windows 8 to a Post-Desktop World

A lot has changed in the three years since the last major Windows announcement. Netbooks were on the rise. The iPad wouldn’t be introduced for another six months and Nokia still had the lead for most smartphone sales in the world. Only 172...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 26, 2012

LinuxCon Europe Q&A: When the Cloud Model Doesn't Fit

LinuxCon Europe is approaching fast. We’ll be gathering in Barcelona, Spain November 5-7, 2012 to help developers, SysAdmins and business executives connect and collaborate while having a great time. One of this year’s keynote spakers is...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 25, 2012

Open Source Cloud News Roundup: Week of Oct. 22

This week’s top open source cloud headlines raised a few interesting questions. Does OpenStack need a Linus Torvalds? This week’s top open source cloud headlines raised a few interesting questions. Does OpenStack need a Linus Torvalds? And...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 25, 2012

The People Who Support Linux: A College Student By Day, Red Hat Developer By (Late) Night

In his few short years as a developer, 19-year-old Sam Kottler has racked up what seems like a decade’s worth of Linux experience. After starting a small web consultancy building Drupal sites as a high school student in Connecticut, he...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 24, 2012

What Linux Trivia Questions Should We Ask LinuxCon Europe Attendees?

This year at LinuxCon in San Diego, the folks from our training group set up a booth and gave away a variety of prizes (a skateboard, free merchandize, free Linux training) to those who took a shot at a Linux trivia quiz. There was no...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 19, 2012

LinuxCon Europe Co-located Events Offer More Opportunities for Collaboration

Earlier this week I wrote about the VIP/speaker gift we’re giving away at LinuxCon Europe (Twitter hashtag: #linuxcon) and shared with the community how anyone could win their own Linux Futbol Club soccer jersey (make sure to read that...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 18, 2012

Open Source Cloud News Roundup: Week of Oct. 15

With the OpenStack Summit in San Diego this week, open cloud headlines were dominated by OpenStack announcements and analysis. But some new criticisms of the project emerged as well. A Forrester analyst cautions that companies may not get...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 18, 2012

The People Who Support Linux: Tushar Kute Brings Linux OS to India’s Sandip Institute

Over the past three years, Tushar Kute has converted from an occasional Linux user to a Linux evangelist. The native of Pune, India, encountered Linux for the first time as an engineering student, running it as an occasional alternative to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 17, 2012

The Open Source Cloud is Ready for Hadoop, Projects Say

Two major trends in enterprise computing this year show increasing overlap: big data processing and open source cloud adoption. To Hortonworks, the software company behind open source Apache Hadoop, the connection makes sense. Enterprise...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 16, 2012

Win Your Own LinuxCon Europe VIP Gift

We’re getting ready to head to LinuxCon Europe taking place in Barcelona November 5-7, 2012. Spain is home to many things: masterful architecture, amazing tapas and wine, and beautiful beaches, among many other notable finds around the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 15, 2012

Wired Op/Ed: When Automakers Become Software Makers

Wired just published an op/ed we wrote about the role Linux and collaborative development are playing in the automotive industry. This role is becoming so important that we recently announced the formation of the Automotive Grade Linux...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 15, 2012

Open Source Cloud News Roundup: Week of Oct. 8

This week’s open source cloud news shows more signs that open source adoption and the open source mindset are gaining momentum in the cloud. VMware, for example, this week announced new support for Amazon EC2. Meanwhile, OpenNebula has...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 11, 2012

Korea Linux Forum Hosts Kernel Collaboration Gangnam Style

This week The Linux Foundation is hosting its first-ever event in South Korea, the Korea Linux Forum in the Gangnam District. This was planned long before PSY’s Gangnam-style videowent viral but who are we not to do our part in...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 10, 2012

Open Cloud Means APIs, Data and Code, Says Mickos

Finland native, LinuxCon Europe keynoter and Eucalyptus Systems CEO Marten Mickos took a few minutes to share his latest thoughts on what open cloud really means and what role Linux and open source software are meant to play in the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 5, 2012

Top Five Tech Jobs Point to Opportunity for Linux Pro's

There is good news being reported today throughout online, print and broadcast newsrooms: The U.S. unemployment rate has dipped to a four-year low to 7.8 percent, and staffing and consulting firm Robert Half International released its 2013...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 5, 2012

Attention CEO’s: You Are in the Software Business. Now What?

Whether you’re Nissan or Toyota, Walmart or Nordstrom, NYSE or NASDAQ, you are in the software business. Every company today, regardless of whether or not they’re a “technology” company, is in the business of building software. Today’s...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 4, 2012

Open Source Cloud News Roundup: Week of Oct. 1

Zenoss released a new report this week that predicts more than 50 percent open source cloud adoption among enterprises within five years. In other open source cloud news, Rackspace has a new training and certification program for...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 4, 2012

Bringing the Open Cloud to Las Vegas: The CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Most of the work in open source communities takes place over mailing lists, IRC, code repositories, and ticketing systems. In other words, efficient collaboration tools that let folks from all over the world work together without having to...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 2, 2012

We Invite You to Share the World's Most Inspiring Linux Stories

Linux inspires. It is enabling nearly every technology innovation of the 21st century and is supporting the growth of numerous industries from mobile to the cloud. And, its reach goes far beyond these markets to also enable scientific...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Oct 1, 2012

Open Source Programs Aim to Meet Global Demand for Developers

I recently wrote that to master technology, you must master software. It is software that differentiates one device or computing experience from another. And since nearly all software today is built using open source projects and code,...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 28, 2012

Open Source Cloud Roundup, Week of Sept. 24

The OpenStack Folsom release is out this week, along with a new cloud strategy announced by IBM. Also, OpenNebula’s CEO pens an argument for innovation in the cloud through open source; Seeking Alpha reminds us what open source cloud...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 27, 2012

Fluendo Advances Multimedia for Linux

The Linux Foundation in March announced that Fluendo was becoming a member. The company has been at the forefront of building legal multimedia solutions for open environments and works very closely with the Gstreamer community. In this...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 27, 2012

To Master Tech You Must Master Software - And Open Source - Even If You're Apple

During my keynote at LinuxCon, I showed a picture of five smart phones from five different manufacturers with their screens blacked out. Think you could tell them apart? Without a UI they are all virtually indistinguishable from each...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 26, 2012

Linux Event TV: One-on-One with Open Source Visionaries

Linux Foundation events are studded with Linux and open source community leaders, as well as some eccentric personalities. What better place than one of these events to sit down and talk to the people who are making innovation happen in...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 25, 2012

Building a Private Cloud with Open Source Ganeti: Pros and Cons

Businesses considering building a private cloud with open source tools have likely explored at least one of the big three open IaaS options: OpenStack, CloudStack and Eucalyptus. These are great platforms for IT departments that have the...  Read More

The Linux Foundation | Sep 25, 2012