Tag: Linux Foundation
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The End of PGP? How “Linux ID” is Revolutionizing Kernel Trust in the Wake of xz Utils
“Who are you, and why should the Linux kernel trust you?” Within the kernel development community, this query long ago ceased to be a mere jest. In the wake of the xz Utils debacle and other disconcerting episodes, Linux maintainers are earnestly seeking a novel paradigm to authenticate contributors’ identities and verify code provenance, moving…
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Essedum 1.0: Bringing AI and Open Source to Networking
On August 27, 2025, at the Open Source Summit Europe, the LF Networking (LFN) community, part of the Linux Foundation, announced the release of Essedum 1.0. Essedum is an open platform designed to integrate artificial intelligence tools into network applications. The project’s codebase was contributed to LFN by Infosys. The inaugural release introduces capabilities for…
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Microsoft’s DocumentDB Joins the Linux Foundation, Signaling a New Open-Source Era
The Linux Foundation has announced the induction of DocumentDB—a Microsoft-developed, open, document-oriented database—into its community. Licensed under MIT, the project was conceived as an alternative to MongoDB following its adoption of more restrictive licensing terms. The emergence of DocumentDB traces back to 2018, when MongoDB abandoned its permissive license in favor of the Server Side…
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The Linux Foundation provides free Node.js online courses
Node.js is very popular, but it is not easy to learn. Now, the Linux Foundation hopes to help you learn Node.js better through free online courses. Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that runs on the Chrome V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. Although Node.js is usually used…
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IBM teamed up with Microsoft and Linux Foundation to protect open-source from patent trolls
IBM, Microsoft and Linux Foundations have partnered with the Open Invention Network (OIN), which was established to protect Linux from patent threats, to counter “patent claims entities” (also known as patent trolls) and further protect the open-source from patents troll attack. Specifically, the organization will help fund the open-source area of a unified patent and…
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Kodi Foundation joins Linux Foundation to help develop the open source movement
The Kodi Foundation announced its participation in the Linux Foundation to help other open source projects grow and enrich the ecosystem of open source software. The Kodi Foundation, the manufacturer of the free and open source cross-platform media center software Kodi (formerly XBMC), is now an associate member of the Linux Foundation. It is ready to contribute code…
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Linux Foundation announces the Red Team project to help make open source more secure
Everyone wants the software to have a high level of security. After all, every day there are different security vulnerabilities that are detected and exploited. At the recent Open Source Leadership Summit, the Linux Foundation announced the Red Team Project. The new project will incubate open source network security tools to help improve the security…
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Hyundai Motor joins the Linux Foundation and AGL in-vehicle system standard platform
On January 4th, Hyundai Motor announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation and its non-profit collaboration platform Automotive Grade Linux (AGL). AGL is an open source project at the Linux Foundation that is changing the way automotive manufacturers build software. More than 140 members are working together to develop a common platform that can serve as the…
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The GraphQL Foundation will be managed by the Linux Foundation
On November 7th, the GraphQL Foundation was announced and will be managed by the Linux Foundation. The GraphQL Foundation will be dedicated to improving and stabilising the GraphQL ecosystem, giving GraphQL a wide range of attention and adoption. GraphQL is an application-level data query language developed by Facebook. It was announced in 2012 and is open…
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Jim Zemlin: Accelerating open source innovation, the Linux Foundation goes beyond Linux
Two days ago we reported on Linus ‘s sharing of Linux success factors at the North American Open Source Summit. Today, I’m looking at what the Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin shared at the conference. According to DZone, Jim Zemlin said in his opening speech that the Linux Foundation’s job is to create innovative engines and rotate the gears of these engines…