The Linux Foundation is Creating the Largest Shared Technology Investment in History

We are the organization of choice for the world's top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption.

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2017 Top Influencer in Software Development

SD Times honors The Linux Foundation alongside 10 other industry heavyweights including Apple, Facebook, and Google.

New Networking Harmonization White Paper

A Linux Foundation Networking and Orchestration White Paper

Build Open Source Competency in Your Company

Companies that innovate through open source typically follow many of the same best practices to achieve success. We’ll show you how.

More than Linux

The Linux Foundation supports scores of open source projects, including Linux. From web frameworks like Node.js to IO Visor at the networking data plane, we create and sustain projects at every layer of the software stack.

Jim Zemlin, The Linux Foundation Executive Director, speaks at Google Cloud Next 2017

Kubernetes: The Linux of the Cloud?

Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of The Linux Foundation, speaks at Google Cloud Next 2017.

Linux Turns 25, is Bigger and More Professional Than Ever

The Linux operating system kernel is 25 years old this year.

Linux Kernel Development: How Fast It is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing, and Who is Sponsoring It [2016]

Guide to the Open Cloud

Open cloud projects have made great progress over the past few years in an effort to build an enterprise alternative to large proprietary public clouds that are open at every level of the stack.

Community Giving

To advance open source software, we must improve diversity and inclusiveness within the open source community. This is a key consideration at every event and in every project we undertake. The Linux Foundation has created and supports a number of programs to help achieve these goals.

Linus Torvalds Speaks Openly about Work and Code at TED2016

Thinkers. Doers. Idea-generators. These are the speakers who have delivered talks featured on TED.com. Whether the talk was given at an official TED conference; at one of thousands of local, independently organized TEDx events; or on another stage altogether, these are the people who brought it to life. In 2016, Linus Torvalds joined the elite ranks of TED speakers and shared with the world his aspirations and his thoughts on why he developed Linux.

Connect with OSS Leaders at Events

Network with the developers of the world's most prolific software, Linux. Or rub elbows with the CEOs of the world's top open source companies. The Linux Foundation events offer these rare opportunities for business and technical communities to meet and advance commercial open source software.