Ten years ago this week, the Linux kernel community faced a daunting challenge: They could no longer use their revision control system BitKeeper and no other Source Control Management (SCMs) met their needs for a distributed system. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, took th … | Continue reading
The Delta Lake project announced the Delta Lake 2.0 release candidate, which includes a collection of new features with vast performance and usability improvements. | Continue reading
The future of banking is open source. They have the potential to level the playing field and accelerate the pace of digital business transformation enabling financial institutions to get products and services to market faster and help solve the challenges facing the financial ser … | Continue reading
In 2021, we continued to double down on our commitment to enact positive change for underrepresented and marginalized people by introducing new and progressing existing programs for inclusivity, racial justice, and diversity. The LF is Committed to Building Diverse and In … | Continue reading
As someone who has spent their entire career in open source software (OSS), the Log4Shell scramble (an industry-wide four-alarm-fire to address a serious vulnerability in the Apache Log4j package) is a humbling reminder of just how far we still have to go. OSS is now central to t … | Continue reading
QIR Alliance is part of the Linux Foundation’s Joint Development Foundation work on open standards SAN FRANCISCO, November 30, 2021 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the new QIR Alliance, a joint effor … | Continue reading
Today, the Linux Foundation announced that Ent, an entity framework for Go that was developed and open sourced by Facebook in 2019, has moved under the governance of the Linux Foundation to help accelerate its development and foster the community of developers and companies using … | Continue reading
Backed by many of the world’s largest companies for more than a decade, SPDX formally becomes an internationally recognized ISO/IEC JTC 1 standard during a transformational time for software and supply chain security SAN FRANCISCO, September 9, 2021 – The Linux Foundation, Joint … | Continue reading
Industry leaders come together to drive the growth of eBPF as a transformational technology to redefine networking, security, tracing and observability SAN FRANCISCO, August 12, 2021 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, … | Continue reading
Industry leaders come together to drive the growth of eBPF as a transformational technology to redefine networking, security, tracing and observability SAN FRANCISCO, August 12, 2021 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, … | Continue reading
New Open 3D Foundation launching with over 20 founding members, including Adobe, AWS, Huawei, Niantic, and Red Hat to accelerate developer collaboration on 3D engine development for AAA-games and high-fidelity simulations SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 6, 2021 – The Linux Foundation … | Continue reading
New Open 3D Foundation launching with over 20 founding members, including Adobe, AWS, Huawei, Niantic, and Red Hat to accelerate developer collaboration on 3D engine development for AAA-games and high-fidelity simulations SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 6, 2021 – The Linux Foundation … | Continue reading
Target, Schwarz Gruppe, Wegmans, Microsoft, Veritone and Deutsche Telekom lead standards effort to advance voice assistance SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 2021 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the Open Voice … | Continue reading
Our communities take security seriously and have been instrumental in creating the tools and standards that every organization needs to comply with the recent US Exec Order | Continue reading
Linux Foundation hosts effort to improve processes and technologies for large-scale mobile Android and iOS applications; Lyft makes initial contributions SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 2, 2021 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open … | Continue reading
Today, OS-Climate announced that Goldman Sachs has joined its cross-industry coalition seeking to shift global investment toward zero-carbon emissions through the development of comprehensive data sets and evaluation tools that are available to all. We expect Goldman Sachs to pr … | Continue reading
Magma will enable open source applications and network function collaboration under a neutral governance framework at the Linux Foundation San Francisco, CA – February 3, 2021 – Today, the Linux Foundation announced that it will launch an open source industry collaboration focuse … | Continue reading
In this article, we’ll look at why the OpenSSF was formed, what it’s accomplished in its first six months, and its plans for the future. | Continue reading
Shuah Khan discusses how mentorship can improve the overall diversity and makeup of open source projects, why software maintainers are important for the health of open source projects such as the Linux kernel, and how language inclusivity and codes of conduct can improve relation … | Continue reading
In late 2020, it was revealed that the SolarWinds Orion software, which is in use by numerous US Government agencies and many private organizations, was severely compromised. This was an incredibly dangerous set of supply chain compromises that the information technology communit … | Continue reading
New survey reveals why contributors work on open source projects and how much time they spend on security SAN FRANCISCO,... | Continue reading
San Francisco, Calif., October 26, 2020 – LF AI Foundation (LF AI), the organization building an ecosystem to enable and... | Continue reading
Open Sourced Codebase Contribution Addresses Data Efficiency and Governance Challenges in the Financial Services Industry October 19, 2020 / The... | Continue reading
Grillo is open sourcing ‘OpenEEW,’ its IoT-based earthquake early-warning system that will accelerate the creation of low-cost, community-driven projects around the world, with support from IBM, USAID, the Clinton Foundation and Arrow Electronics | Continue reading
New collaboration called Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) consolidates industry efforts to improve the security of open source software SAN... | Continue reading
3MF Consortium joins Linux Foundation, announces new executive director as it moves from development to adoption San Francisco, Calif., July... | Continue reading
The Linux kernel earns its CII best practices gold badge, joining other projects, such as Zephyr. | Continue reading
Ten years ago this week, the Linux kernel community faced a daunting challenge: They could no longer use their... | Continue reading
The Linux Foundation, today announced enrollment is now open for a new free, course - Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps. | Continue reading
Project will build on growth to advance electronic design automation for engineers San Francisco, Calif., November 22, 2019 – The... | Continue reading
OpenPOWER to become Linux Foundation project to advance development of data-driven architectures required for hybrid cloud environments and increasingly intensive... | Continue reading
Engineers and developers from Facebook, Google, Trail of Bits and more to help advance osquery through neutral forum | Continue reading
The Zend Framework is transitioning to the Linux Foundation and will launch later this year as a new project called Laminas. Laminas will provide a vendor-neutral home for the Zend Framework community to advance PHP tooling for the next generation of web services and APIs while m … | Continue reading
SAP has been working with open source for decades and has now established an open source program office (OSPO) to... | Continue reading
Hyundai strengthens its commitment to open innovation by collaborating with the open source AGL community SAN FRANCISCO, January 4, 2019... | Continue reading
RISC-V Foundation to leverage the Linux Foundation’s tools infrastructure, services and training programs SAN FRANCISCO and BERKELEY, CA – Nov.... | Continue reading
Public Q&A sessions Seeking Community Input to be Held at Node+JS Interactive in Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 10-12 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct.... | Continue reading
The Call for Code initiative aims to harness the collective power of the global open source developer community against the... | Continue reading
Unikraft aims to simplify the process of building unikernels through a unified and customizable code base SAN FRANCISCO, December 5,... | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO and BEIJING (LinuxCon China) – June 25, 2018 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation... | Continue reading
Linux expertise is again in the top spot as the most sought after open source skill, says the latest Open... | Continue reading