 Jim Zemlin | Microsoft/Amazon Deal: Nothing to See Here
Microsoft today issued a news release to announce a patent cross-license agreement with Amazon. And, the news release, in the lead, explicitly calls out a set of technologies covered by the agreement: the Kindle, which employs open source software, and Amazon’s use of Linux-based servers.
Companies reach broad cross-license agreements all the time, never disclose [...]
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 Amanda McPherson | Can You Design a Better Linux T-shirt than Us?
Today we launched a new initiative at the Linux Foundation: a merchandise store on Linux.com. These aren't logo Ts that you get at every trade show (and probably use to dry your car.) The T-shirts, mugs, stickers and babies gear in the Linux.com store are truly unique and hopefully capture the irreverence, wit and attitude [...]
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 Ted T'so | Fast ext4 fsck times, revisited
Last night I managed to finish up a rather satisfying improvement to ext4’s inode and block allocators. The ext4’s original allocator was actually a bit more simple-minded than ext3’s, in that it didn’t implement the Orlov algorithm to spread out top-level directories for better filesystem aging. It also was buggy in certain [...]
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 Brian Profitt | Hundreds of Jobs Posted on Linux.com
With Linux powering nearly every mobile device that hits the market, the demand for Linux-related jobs is rapidly growing despite national unemployment figures. Combine this with the ongoing success of companies such as Red Hat and it's easy to see why demand for Linux professionals is on the rise.
That's why today Linux.com is adding an important function that will connect job seekers, employers, and recruiters.read more
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 Angela Brown | What to Expect at LinuxCon 2010 this August in Boston!
The call for participation and registration opened for LinuxCon today signaling the beginning of planning for the 2nd Annual LinuxCon.
To recap on some of the highlights of LinuxCon 2009, which took place in Portland last September, we brought you:
A fantastic line-up of speakers including Linus Torvalds, Mark Shuttleworth, Bob Sutor, and many more industry luminaries
A [...]
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 Linux Weather Forecast | Built to last
It has now been almost exactly five years since kernel development community tentatively started using the git source code management system with the 2.6.12-rc2 commit. That was an uncertain time; nobody really knew how long it would take the development process to get back up to speed after an abrupt core-tool change. As [...]
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 Linux Foundation Legal | A Big Victory for F/OSS: Jacobsen v. Katzer is Settled
At 9:00 AM EST today, the parties to Jacobsen v. Katz filed a settlement agreement with the U.S. Federal District Court for the Northern District of California. In doing so, they brought an end to one of the most important legal cases to date affecting the continued success of Free and Open Source Software [...]
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