Mentor Graphics Joins Linux Foundation

Veteran in embedded design joins Linux Foundation to support embedded Linux developers and vendors

SAN FRANCISCO, December 15, 2010 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Mentor Graphics (NASDAQ: MENT) is its newest member.

Mentor Graphics was founded 20 years ago and today is a leading supplier of products and services that assist in the embedded design of chips and boards, as well as embedded operating systems, applications and drivers.

The use of Linux in the consumer electronics market is on the rise. Manufacturers of phones, tablets, televisions, smart grid devices, and more are using the OS to reduce costs, speed time to market and ease development. As a result, companies like Mentor Graphics are seeing an increase in embedded developers using Linux to design components for these devices. The company is joining The Linux Foundation to collaborate on assisting these developers with common tools, infrastructure and resources.

“The promise of embedded Linux is being realized and developers are seeking tools and resources to support their work with this OS. This is in perfect alignment with our vision and our enabling technologies and services. The Linux Foundation is increasing its focus on embedded projects to help accelerate the Linux platform in this area,” said Glenn Perry, general manager of Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division. “We’re excited to become a member of The Linux Foundation and to be a part of advancing Linux in the embedded computing market.”

“Mentor Graphics is a leader in embedded hardware and software design and, as a Linux Foundation member, will contribute important expertise to the advancement of Linux in embedded products,” said Amanda McPherson, vice president of marketing and developer programs at The Linux Foundation.

About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world’s most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about $800 million. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.

About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source development community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting technical events, including LinuxCon, and generating original Linux research and content that advances the understanding of the Linux platform. Its web properties, including Linux.com, reach approximately two million people per month. The organization also provides extensive Linux training opportunities that feature the Linux kernel community’s leading experts as instructors. Please follow The Linux Foundation on Twitter.

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Linux Foundation Appoints New Fellow

OpenEmbedded Core Developer and Yocto Project Maintainer Richard Purdie Joins Linux Foundation

SAN FRANCISCO, December 13, 2010 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that OpenEmbedded core developer and Yocto Project maintainer Richard Purdie has been appointed to the position of Linux Foundation Fellow.

The rise of Linux in mobile and embedded computing is placing new demands on Linux software development while opening new opportunities for tools and infrastructure to ease that development. The Linux Foundation’s Fellowship Fund provides financial support for resources that can accelerate development efforts and spur the adoption of Linux and open source software. As a Linux Foundation Fellow, Purdie will work full-time on the Yocto Project, OpenEmbedded, the Poky Project and other embedded Linux development initiatives.

The Yocto Project was announced in October and provides high-quality open source infrastructure and tools to help developers create custom Linux software for any hardware architecture. It is intended to provide a helpful starting point for developers and speed time to market for vendors by establishing shared build infrastructure and tools. The Yocto Project is based on OpenEmbedded, an open source project and build framework for embedded Linux that provides coding assistance, guides and FAQs. Besides Richard’s work on Yocto and OpenEmbedded, he was also the founder of the Poky Build System.

“We are happy to be able to add someone of Richard’s caliber. He has already made extremely important contributions to the advancement of embedded Linux and his depth of expertise in this area will accelerate technical progress in the year ahead,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation.

“The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum in which the highest priority work on Linux can be done,” said Richard Purdie, Linux Foundation Fellow. “I’m looking forward to dedicating my time to helping provide developers with tools and infrastructure to ease the development of embedded Linux and collaborating with the community to make Linux even better.”

Purdie was most recently a Core Developer at OpenEmbedded, where he was also lead maintainer of bitbake. He has also been an embedded Linux architect in Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Software Engineer at OpenedHand, where he worked with a variety of other open source projects such as Clutter, X server, Zaurus and Oprofile. He has also made numerous contributions to the Linux kernel, including as maintainer of the backlight and LED subsystems. Purdie received his MSci in Physics from University of Durham in 2003.

Current Linux Foundation Fellows include John Hawley, Till Kamppeter, Janina Sajka and Linus Torvalds. Previous Fellows include Steve Hemminger, Andrew Morton, Andrew Tridgell and Ted Ts’o. For more information on Linux Foundation Fellows, please visit click here.

About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source development community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting technical events, including LinuxCon, and generating original Linux research and content that advances the understanding of the Linux platform. Its web properties, including Linux.com, reach approximately two million people per month. The organization also provides extensive Linux training opportunities that feature the Linux kernel community’s leading experts as instructors. Follow The Linux Foundation on Twitter.

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Linux Foundation Announces Certifications to Linux Standard Base 4.0 and Public Beta 4.1

Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, Ubuntu and all major distributions are certified

SAN FRANCISCO, December 8, 2010 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that all the leading commercial Linux companies are certified to Linux Standard Base 4.0 (LSB 4.0), including Canonical, Kylin, Linpus, Mandriva, Neoshine, Novell, Oracle, Red Flag and Red Hat.

The Linux Foundation has also released a beta of the LSB 4.1 and is soliciting feedback from the public. The official release of LSB 4.1 is expected in January. For more details, please visit: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/LSB_4.1_Beta.

The LSB delivers interoperability between applications and the Linux operating system, allowing application developers to target multiple versions of Linux with just one software package. It also allows Linux vendors to demonstrate to their customers that they meet a common set of industry standards and that they work together as an industry on advancing Linux.

“We are pleased to release the next version of the LSB to the public. We are also happy to report that the distribution community has worked together on the standard and all are certified,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “This is good for the Linux community, good for Linux customers and good for Linux vendors.”

An operating system’s success is inextricably linked with the number and quality of applications that run on top of it. Linux and its variances between distributions, however, present ISVs and individual developers with a unique set of challenges. The LSB was created to solve these challenges and lower the overall costs of supporting the Linux platform. By reducing the differences among individual Linux distributions, the LSB significantly reduces the costs involved with porting applications to different distributions, as well as lowers the cost and effort involved in after-market support of those applications.

About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source development community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting technical events, including LinuxCon, and generating original Linux research and content that advances the understanding of the Linux platform. Its web properties, including Linux.com, reach approximately two million people per month. The organization also provides extensive Linux training opportunities that feature the Linux kernel community’s leading experts as instructors. Follow The Linux Foundation on Twitter.

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Trademarks: The Linux Foundation, Linux Standard Base. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Huawei Joins Linux Foundation

SAN FRANCISCO, December 6, 2010: The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, has become its newest member.

Being recognized as one of the world’s most innovative companies, Huawei is using Linux to develop network equipment and devices and sees its Linux Foundation membership as an opportunity to collaborate with a worldwide network of developers, users and vendors to advance that work.

“Linux is providing companies with the opportunity to accelerate technology efforts,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation. “As a leading telecom company, Huawei will bring important perspective to The Linux Foundation as Linux grows in its ubiquity across mobile devices and telecom infrastructure.”

“The Linux Foundation is engaged in worldwide promotion of the free and open Linux operating system,” said Mr. He XiaoXiang, Vice President of Central R&D, Huawei. “The Linux Foundation is leading the global technology development and technological progress. Huawei supports its advocacy of Linux standardization, looks forward to making a global contribution to Linux, and promotes Linux in the world telecommunications market space and the overall success.”

In recent years, world-leading companies, Huawei included, have played an increasingly important role in Linux. A large number of developers have contributed to Linux kernel development, and Linux has been widely used in various industries because of its open architecture, stability and performance.

About Huawei
Huawei is a leading telecoms solutions provider serving 45 of the world’s top 50 telecom operators. Huawei’s products and solutions have been deployed in over 100 countries and support the communications needs of one third of the world’s population. The company is committed to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and growth potential for its customers. For more information, visit Huawei online: www.huawei.com.

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About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source development community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting technical events, including LinuxCon, and generating original Linux research and content that advances the understanding of the Linux platform. Its web properties, including Linux.com, reach approximately two million people per month. The organization also provides extensive Linux training opportunities that feature the Linux kernel community’s leading experts as instructors. Follow The Linux Foundation on Twitter.

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Linux Foundation Announces Individual Membership Drive

Members support the Linux operating system while becoming eligible for Linux.com Store gift cards just in time for holiday

SAN FRANCISCO, December 3, 2010 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced a new individual membership drive and promotion that makes members eligible to win free Linux.com Store T-shirts, hats, mugs and more.

New members who sign up for individual membership at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/join between today and December 20, 2010 will be automatically entered into a drawing to win one of five U.S. $50 gift cards to the Linux.com Store. These prizes will be available just in time for the holidays. Existing members and non-members can also be entered into the drawing by mailing their name and email address to The Linux Foundation headquarters. The address and official rules for the drawing are available at The Linux Foundation website: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/join/individual-membership-drive-rules

Individual members of The Linux Foundation help advance the Linux operating system and support the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds. They also receive exclusive benefits that include a Linux.com email address (e.g. john@linux.com); a choice of T-shirt; employee purchase pricing from Dell, HP and Lenovo; 35 percent off O’Reilly books and e-books; and a variety of deep discounts to attend events, subscribe to industry publications, and to shop at the Linux.com Store.

The Linux.com Store includes exclusive merchandise and original T-shirts, hats, mugs and other items that reflect “geek culture.” The merchandise available in the Linux.com Store is designed to reflect the unique and varied culture associated with Linux: geek pride, freedom, fun, eccentricity, and originality.

The Linux.com Store recently added new items, including the “I Believe in Linux” mousepad and the community favorite “We Made IT” T-shirt. Nearly 8,000 votes made this T-shirt available in the Linux.com Store as a result of the Linux.com Store Community Design Contest that ran March through June 2010. The creator of the design was Said Hassan, who won the vote among nearly 100 other designers.

Both corporate and individual members support the organization that employs Linus Torvalds and important programs that promote and protect Linux. The annual membership fee for individuals is U.S. $99. Student membership is U.S. $25 and includes all the same benefits as individual members.

About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source development community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting technical events, including LinuxCon, and generating original Linux research and content that advances the understanding of the Linux platform. Its web properties, including Linux.com, reach approximately two million people per month. The organization also provides extensive Linux training opportunities that feature the Linux kernel community’s leading experts as instructors. Please follow The Linux Foundation on Twitter.

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Trademarks: The Linux Foundation, Linux Standard Base, MeeGo and Yocto Project are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.