Mon, Aug. 4

Jim Zemlin

LinuxWorld Conversations Start Tomorrow

LinuxWorld kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco. In many ways, it has a real “State of the Union” feel to it, being one of the oldest shows devoted exclusively to Linux technologies and business trends ... more »

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

Mon, June 30

tytso

Ext4 is now the primary filesystem on my laptop

Over the weekend, I converted my laptop to use the ext4 filesystem.  So far so good!  So far I’ve found one bug as a result of my using ext4 in production (if delayed allocation ... more »

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

Fri, Aug. 8

Andy Updegrove

Linux World 2008/Streets of San Francisco

The latest edition of Linux World ground to a halt in San Francisco today. I made it into town just last night for a VIP party hosted by the Linux Foundation where I caught up ... 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, April 25

Oliver Diedrich

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS released

The latest version of Ubuntu Linux, 8.04 has been released. “Hardy Heron” is the first release with Long Term Support release since two years: Ubuntu sponsor Canonical garantees three years of updates for the ... 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 »

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

Tue, Aug. 5

Amanda McPherson

Could Linux Change Democracy?

Deb Gage at the San Francisco Chronicle recently profiled a voting machine that will be given a tryout at a mock election at Linux World, opening today. Attendees of the conference will have the ability ... more »

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

Tue, July 29

Jonathan Corbet

The 2.6.27 merge window closes

On July 28, Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.27-rc1 prepatch and closed the merge window for 2.6.27. That means we now know what will be in this kernel, which will probably be ... more »

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

Tue, May 6

Jim Zemlin

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 ... 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

Mon, July 23

Amanda McPherson

Stable Userspace Driver API

“The stable driver API was already announced a year ago by Greg Kroah-Hartman. Now the last patches where uploaded and the API was included in Linus’ tree. The idea of the API is to make ... more »

Thu, Aug. 7

andrew

BT joins FOSSBazaar

BT announced on the 24th July 2008 that it had joined FOSSBazaar as a strategic partner. And it was nice to see this announced as the engagement is something I’d been working on for ... more »