At LinuxCon last week, the Linux Foundation announced a new certification scheme for Linux professionals to complement their existing training activities. The Linux Foundation Certification Program ...

Moving from Windows to Linux isn't as hard as you might initially think, but you'd be forgiven for having some worries. Switching to a totally different desktop environment is hard, especially when ...

Patent trolls are a growing challenge for the software industry. And the Linux Foundation has launched a large campaign to snuff them out. Attendees at the annual cloud-native software developers ...

Certifications from Red Hat, Oracle and SUSE are tailored to environments where those Linux distributions are prevalent. Vendor-neutral certifications emphasize core Linux principles applicable across ...

In March, the ever-innovating Linux Foundation announced a new program aimed at bringing the brains behind Linux together with developers-to-be in order to supply the increasing need for Linux talent.

A Microsoft engineer says that use the popular open source Linux operating system has now overtaken Windows on its own Microsoft Azure cloud platform. In an application to have Microsoft join a Linux ...

It's a natural move. While Facebook's open-source group has long been a member, the main company is finally joining the Foundation at its highest level. As a Platinum member, Facebook's head of Open ...

Facebook Inc. said today it has signed up as a Platinum Member of The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit technology consortium that supports hundreds of open-source software projects. With Facebook signing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Nobody quite expected the strategists at Redmond to come ...