Who Else is Speaking At the Collaboration Summit?
Article Source Amanda McPherson’s Blog March 17, 2009, 11:57 am A few weeks ago, I wrote about highlighted speakers from the Collaboration Summit. While that post was packed full of good speakers, I wanted to highlight some others I‚Äôm... Read More
Advocacy at the Speed of Light
Article Source Brian Proffitt’s Blog March 13, 2009, 7:27 am I was catching up with a friend of mine yesterday, and he asked me how things were going with my new job at the Linux Foundation. (It’s been a while since we talked.) read more Read More
Journey to the New Linux.com
Article Source Brian Proffitt’s Blog March 4, 2009, 8:39 am Since yesterday, quite a few folks have called or e-mailed me to find out just what exactly we at the Linux Foundation have planned for the new Linux.com site. The big question:... Read More
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
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
Note on Microsoft TomTom Suit: Calm Down, Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst
Article Source Zemlin’s Blog February 26, 2009, 12:05 pm Calm Down Right now the Microsoft claim against Tom Tom is a private dispute between those two entities concerning GPS mapping software. We do not feel assumptions should be made... Read More
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
Who’s Speaking at this year’s CollabSummit?
Article Source Amanda McPherson’s Blog February 20, 2009, 12:50 pm The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is the only conference designed to enhance collaboration between the Linux community, industry, end users and ISVs. Instead of the... Read More
Congratulations to IBM and Red Hat on their 10th Anniversary
Article Source Zemlin’s Blog February 18, 2009, 8:11 am I’ve written on Red Hat before and the confidence I feel in their operational strengths. It is one of the best run companies I’ve seen. Red Hat’s leadership in the Linux space and its... Read More
Do Not Adjust Your Screens...
Article Source Brian Proffitt’s Blog February 18, 2009, 4:13 am The sharp-eyed among you may have noticed a few… changes to the Linux Developer Network site that happened overnight. read more Read More
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
Netbook users: Microsoft says three apps is enough
Article Source Amanda McPherson’s Blog February 9, 2009, 9:43 am During the last two years, Microsoft has encountered more competition from Linux on the desktop than probably all of the other years combined. The venue? Netbooks. The... Read More
Linux Provides Steady IT Foundation for Banks in a Tough Economic Climate
Article Source Zemlin’s Blog February 4, 2009, 8:49 am Times are tough in the banking industry. According to the AP, 100,000 bank employees have been laid off over the past two years. Overall, banking industry unemployment has almost... Read More
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
Open Office: A Horse of a Different Source
Article Source Amanda McPherson’s Blog January 13, 2009, 11:24 am The last few weeks have seen a number of posts about the health of open source office productivity software Open Office. Michael Meeks, open office developer, started this... Read More
More on the “I’m Linux” video contest
Article Source Amanda McPherson’s Blog December 22, 2008, 5:17 pm Last week, we launched the Linux Foundation video site. The site will of course house the growing collection of Linux Foundation original video from our events, but I hope... Read More
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
Open Voices Interview with Mitchell Baker, Mozilla
The fifth Open Voices podcast installation features a conversation with Mozilla Chairman, Mitchell Baker, and the Linux Foundation Executive Director, Jim Zemlin. Baker admits that Mozilla’s open source strategy was in direct reaction to... Read More
Open Voices with Edward Screven of Oracle
This Open Voices installment features Edward Screven, Chief Corporate Architect of Oracle who sits down with Jim Zemlin to discuss Oracle’s current and future market positioning, as well as his thoughts on a variety of topics, from cloud... Read More
Open Voices Podcast with Mark Shuttleworth
This Open Voices installment features Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical, who sheds light on the roots of Ubuntu, trust relationships, his desire for increased collaboration in the Linux community and much more in a casual conversation with... Read More
Linus Torvalds Interview, Part II
Jim Zemlin’s 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
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