Thu, Oct. 30

Jim Zemlin

Linux Continues to Define the Future of Computing While Microsoft Follows

It is hard for the executive director of the Linux Foundation to feel bad for Microsoft, but they are having a bad week while Linux continues to move forward in innovative ways into new markets ... more »

Direct from the Executive Director... Read more from Jim Zemlin

Fri, Aug. 15

Angela Brown

Plumbers Conference Full Speaker Line-up & Early-Bird Registration Reminder

Accepted Speakers Announcement and Early Bird Registration Reminder Linux Plumbers Conference 17-19 September 2008 Portland, Oregon USA http://linuxplumbersconf.org/ Speakers Announcement and Early Bird Registration Reminder The list of accepted talks for Linux Plumbers ... more »

Angela Brown's Linux Foundation Blog... Read more from Angela Brown

Sun, Sept. 14

tytso

New toy: iPod Touch (2nd Generation)

With the price drop, I finally decided to get a 32GB iPod Touch, and I have to admit, Apple has done a really nice job. Its decisions about which applications it decides to arbitrarily blacklist ... more »

Musings about Open Source, Linux, and Life by Theodore Tso... Read more from Thoughts By Ted

Mon, Nov. 3

Andy Updegrove

Innovation past and future: What Price Venture Capital?

If you hail from one of the hot beds of high tech - Silicon Valley, say, or (in my case) the Route 128/495 area of Massachusetts, you’ve doubtless heard the phrase “serial entrepreneur.” What ... more »

Legal Issues Affecting Linux and Open Source... Read more from Linux Foundation Legal

Fri, April 11

John Walicki

DAM-5 reports that the State of the Linux Desktop is strong

Yesterday I reported to the LF members and Jim Zemlin at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit closing session that the State of the Linux Desktop is strong. Based on the work of many open source ... more »

News and Commentary... Read more from LF Desktop Linux

Fri, Oct. 10

Oliver Diedrich

Linux Kernel 2.6.27 Released

The latest version 2.6.27 of the Linux kernel has been released. New and improved Wi-Fi drivers now allow the kernel to routinely deal with a considerably higher number of 802.11n Wi-Fi chips ... more »

Thu, Aug. 7

Jeff Licquia

The New Linux Developer Network

Let’s take a trip down Memory Lane, shall we? Back when we were still the Free Standards Group and OSDL, the FSG side of the house was hard at work on a developer portal ... more »

Tue, Nov. 18

Amanda McPherson

Shouldn’t Obama use Linux, and not a Mac?

For those of you who haven’t heard, Barack Obama will be the first president to have a laptop on his desk at the oval office. (He does however have to give up his trusted ... more »

News and thoughts from inside the Linux Foundation... Read more from Amanda McPherson

Fri, Oct. 24

Jonathan Corbet

2.6.28 takes shape

Linus Torvalds released 2.6.28-rc1 and closed the merge window on October 23. So we can now see what will be in the 2.6.28 kernel. Once again, it looks like an active ... more »

The state of the kernel... Read more from Linux Weather Forecast

Wed, Aug. 20

lfblogs@linux-foundation.org

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 ... more »

Wed, Aug. 6

kern

IBM releases Open Source Software For Linux-based Supercomputers

IBM has released an open source software stack to help manage Linux Supercomputers.  The tools that have been tested and integrated by IBM include the Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit (xCAT), Advance Toolchain for Power Systems ... more »

Cases where companies or governments successfully switch from Windows to Linux or open source software... Read more from Linux vs. Windows

Thu, Nov. 20

bproffitt

More Milestones in Linux Kernel Development History

The fact that the Linux kernel now has an estimated development value of $1.4 billion is an intriguing development—it certainly represents a significant milestone for the Linux kernel community. After we published the ... more »

blog page... Read more from Brian Proffitt

Thu, Nov. 20

tbm

Case stories of good and bad community interaction

It is often argued that companies have to work with the FOSS community and there are good reasons for doing so. I've tried to collect a number of case stories of good and bad ... more »

Thu, July 24

dac

Open Source Content Management

Your friendly neighborhood Linux systems admin here with a post about the Linux Foundation web infrastructure. The web site has grown organically one piece at a time. The existing main application for www.linuxfoundation.org ... more »

Linux Foundation... Read more from David Ames