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Member Profile: Open Source Founder and Android Fan Anthony Favre

Anthony Favre used Linux for the first time as a student in 1997 and has since started two companies that specialize in Linux and open source technologies. 
In 2002 he founded Linalis, an IT company in Geneva that provided LPI (LInux Profess…

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Microsoft fields tough questions about open culture at the company

A flurry of press coverage came with the news two weeks ago that for the first time Microsoft had made the top-20 list in the Linux Foundation’s annual development report on top contributors to the Linux kernel. 
The announcement generated an a…

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How is Linux Built? Our New Report and Video

When you work for the Linux Foundation you get a lot of questions on just how Linux is built. Given the massive scale of the development and ubiquity of Linux today, some of us in the community might think everyone understands how the largest collabora…

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NVIDIA Joins the Linux Foundation

Fluendo, Lineo Solutions, Mocana and NVIDIA have joined the Linux Foundation. However, there is no indication that this step will have an immediate effect on NVIDIA's driver policy…

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Slideshow: Five Years of Linux Collaboration

{lfnews}One of our most special events of the year is just a month away, the Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. This Summit is unique because it’s the first event we ever hosted (2007 on the Google campus) and aims to bring together Linux Fo…

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Linux Kernel Chief Exits SUSE, Takes Vendor-Neutral Oversight Role

Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux kernel's stable branch and the Linux driver project, is leaving his position with SUSE to join the Linux Foundation in a full-time fellowship role. Kroah-Hartman will now have more time to oversee kern…

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Linux Foundation Expects More Enterprise Gains in 2012

The Linux Foundation is sharing the results of their latest invitation-only survey of enterprise Linux users. Their last such survey, in August 2010, revealed Linux was gaining popularity in enterprise computing. It should come as no real surprise t…

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