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Indie Linux Developer Tries New Open Source Fundraising Model
What’s wrong with Linux? Software developer Bryan Lunduke has often lectured on this topic on his podcast, the Linux Action Show, and at conferences. (This has earned him a contingency of critics in the open source community, he says, as... Read More
Samsung Joins Linux Foundation as Platinum Member
We are pleased to announce that Samsung is joining The Linux Foundation at the Platinum level. This is the highest level of support at The Linux Foundation and represents Samsung’s commitment to and understanding of the value of Linux and... Read More
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IPv6 Creates Opportunity for Linux in Embedded Computing: A Case Study
We recently profiled Compunetix, who delivers audio conferencing solutions to military agencies and their move from a proprietary embedded OS to Linux. Their migration was precipatated by a mandate by the U.S. Department of Defense that... Read More
Open Cloud Roundup: Top Stories of the Week
I’m pinch-hitting on this weekly column for our Digital Content Editor Libby Clark just one more week before she returns to the office. Stories topping the list this week include Fedora 17 and its focus on open cloud integration, Mary Jo... Read More
SUSE Turns 20, Ascends to the Cloud
Congratulations to SUSE on celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The company has successfully evolved from a three-man consultancy in Germany that produced one of the first Linux distributions, to an international platform for... Read More
How to Become a Finalist: Inspired by Linux T-shirt Design Contest
Gallery View Gallery (6) I’m inspried by a variety of things, both small and large: a really good cup of coffee, great art, contribution, reading the Sunday New York Times, sitting in the Linux kernel panel session at LinuxCon. But this... Read More
New Linux Kernel Adds X32 ABI, Btrfs Updates
It’s been a “calm” release cycle, according to Linus Torvalds, but the 3.4 Linux kernel released on Sunday still has plenty of interesting new features. Top of the bill? A X32 application binary interface (ABI) that will help provide... Read More
Survey: Open Source Adoption Rises, Drives Innovation
More than 50 percent of all software purchased within five years will be open source, according to a survey released Monday by a collaboration of 26 open source companies. This year’s “Future of Open Source Survey” results signal a tipping... Read More
Marten Mickos: Eucalyptus Opens Up Under Agile Model
As part of our ongoing focus on open source cloud, we talked with Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos about the commoditization of hypervisors, what’s driving his company’s growth and its plans to release Eucalyptus 3.1 soon, marking the... Read More
2012 Linux Foundation T-shirt Contest: Inspired by Linux
So much has happened recently in the Linux community to be inspired by. This is my second month as the Digital Content Editor for Linux.com and as a newbie member I’ve already met so many amazing people and seen so many significant... Read More
Marten Mickos: Openness is Winning in the Cloud
Open source cloud computing software startup Eucalyptus has had an eventful past few months: – In March the Infrastructure-as-a-Service company signed a deal with Amazon Web Services to improve its compatibility with the Amazon API and... Read More
Open Source Cloud Top Stories of the Week
This week’s open source cloud headlines featured doomsday predictions about the consequences of the Oracle and Google dispute; why Rackspace’s first quarter earnings have some analysts scaling down cloud computing predictions; and a crop... Read More
Piston Cloud, the Red Hat of OpenStack Cloud Computing?
With the recent buzz around the OpenStack project, momentum behind open source cloud development is building. We’re now seeing an early ecosystem of companies and products built around OpenStack – a goal that Rackspace’s Lew Moorman laid... Read More
Big Data, Cloud Knowledge Key in IT Jobs Market
As a global community, we are creating and sharing more information than ever before. And, most of that activity is happening “in the cloud,” which is hosted on millions of servers in datacenters located anywhere from the Columbia River... Read More
Open Source Founder and Android Fan Anthony Favre
Anthony Favre used Linux for the first time as a student in 1997 and has since started two companies that specialize in Linux and open source technologies. In 2002 he founded Linalis, an IT company in Geneva that provided LPI (LInux... Read More
Top Open Cloud Stories This Week
Open cloud news this week brought with it some new competition, some reflection on existing competitors and some unexpected cooperation. I’ve also thrown in a short counter perspective on the issue of portability — is it a myth? What did... Read More
In Pictures: Linux Foundation Enterprise End User Summit
The Linux Foundation’s Enterprise End User Summit kicked off yesterday in New York. The event this year is hosted at the NYSE Technologies’ offices. It brings together Linux kernel developers and the world’s largest users of Linux to... Read More
Quotes From The Linux Foundation Enterprise End User Summit
For the past two days, we’ve held our annual Enterprise End User Summit at the New York Stock Exchange. Besides the fun of ringing the bell during our evening reception, it’s been an incredibly valuable event, fueling collaboration between... Read More
Open Source Cloud Roundup: Top Stories of the Week
Not to over-inflate the horse race nature of the cloud computing space right now, but this is an exciting time to watch the action as open source projects seek to compete with giants such as Amazon and the telcos. This week’s Open Cloud... Read More
Introducing CloudOpen: Why Now and Why The Linux Foundation?
I am pleased to announce CloudOpen, our new conference celebrating and exploring the open source projects, technologies and companies who make up the cloud. CloudOpen will bring together the open source projects, products and companies... Read More
New data points to demand for Linux skills, training in Asia
With the Linux Foundation Enterprise End User Summit coming up on April 30, we revisited the data collected for our Linux Adoption Trends report to find some of the global trends among enterprise Linux users. While the report published in... Read More
Open cloud top stories of the week
With the OpenStack Folsom Design Summit happening this week, much of the open cloud news has revolved around OpenStack’s growing list of partners and analysis of the open source platform’s role in the overall cloud ecosystem. Here are six... Read More
Linux Mint Debian: Now with Cinnamon!
There’s a new Linux Mint in town, and something new has been added. Specifically, Mint’s Cinnamon desktop is now part of Linux Mint’s Debian Edition (LMDE). Mint giveth, and Mint taketh away. The 201204 LMDE release also says goodbye to... Read More