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ONOS Project Joins Linux Foundation in Strategic Partnership
Foundation to provide global reach, experience and infrastructure for open source community development to enhance and further grow ONOS’ thriving community
Seattle and Menlo Park, Calif., Oct. 13, 2015 – ONOS’ community and The Linux Foundation today announced a strategic partnership that is expected to have an enormous impact on the future of networking by helping ONOS to realize its full potential as an open source SDN and NFV project for service providers. The new Collaborative Project will advance and bring together the community for ONOS to build open source platforms, solutions and ecosystem for service providers to monetize SDN/NFV, while helping vendors and service providers invent new business models. Working together empowers the ONOS project to leverage best practices in community engagement to grow and nurture a larger community, globally enabling developers and contributors to further accelerate the pace of innovation through feedback and contributions to its open source platforms and solutions.
The partnership will focus on creating disruptive SDN solutions featuring open source software platforms, white boxes, a range of network control and management applications and the ability to rapidly create and deploy innovative services. By becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project, ONOS will leverage the Foundation’s depth of expertise in open source software project governance and community participation, significantly enhancing the project’s capabilities in the crucial strategic area of open source processes and practices.
The ONOS project and platform includes several compelling SDN/NFV solutions for service providers, a global footprint in Research and Education (R&E) networks and a growing community around the globe. Together, ONOS and The Linux Foundation can significantly accelerate the virtuous cycle of developing platforms and use cases (e.g. ONOS, CORD) by enabling solutions that are enriched by community contributions and fed back to further improve and harden the platform.
“Service providers are increasingly adopting open source software to build their networks and today are making open source and collaboration a strategic part of their business and an investment in the future,” said Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation. “The Linux Foundation recognizes the impact the ONOS project can have on service provider networks and will help advance ONOS to achieve its potential. The partnership combines the best of the two organizations’ capabilities in support of a strategic vision to transform service provider infrastructure with open source SDN and NFV.”
“Now is the perfect time to partner with the Linux Foundation,” said Guru Parulkar, Executive Director and Board Member at ON.Lab/ONOS project. “They bring a number of resources and also provide a measure of trust and sustainability through a well-built brand that delivers extended reach to our collaborative community and accelerates innovation on an even larger scale. ONOS’ services provider, vendor, and research partners welcome the partnership and look forward to the benefits of scale, awareness and sustainability that it will provide.”
The partnership will help ON.Lab/ONOS transform service providers’ infrastructure for increased monetization by achieving high capex and opex efficiencies and creating new innovative services using the power of open source SDN and NFV. The Linux Foundation will assist ONOS to organize, grow and harness the power of this global community to take ONOS and the solutions enabled by it to the next level of production readiness and drive adoption in production networks.
The ONOS project has issued four open source releases of ONOS since December 2014 and demonstrated its architecture’s features including scalability, high performance, high availability, modularity and the ability to support OpenFlow as well as NETCONF and other southbound protocols. The project has also demonstrated a number of service provider solutions enabled by ONOS such as CORD (Central Office Re-architected as Data Center), packet-optical convergence, SDN-IP peering, and others.
ON.Lab has a well-established brand name and track record for leading the open source SDN movement and has built solid SDN and NFV software platforms and solutions for service providers, rapidly turning feedback from its community into new features and hardened software. ON.Lab provides a strong core engineering team to shepherd ONOS with focus and purpose, leveraging its deep engagement among service providers and vendors to create solutions that enable new business models. The ONOS platform and solutions have experienced tremendous downloads, adoption and feedback from its community and partnering with the Linux Foundation will accelerate and enhance this success.
ON.Lab and the ONOS project will continue with their respective boards. ONOS’ mission will remain the same and that is to accelerate the adoption of SDN and NFV in mission critical networks based on open source platforms and solutions. ON.Lab and the ONOS project will continue to operate the way they have in the past except in the area of building, nurturing and harnessing the power of a truly global open source community in partnership with the Linux Foundation.
About the ONOS project
ONOS is the open source SDN networking operating system for Service Provider networks architected for high performance, scale and availability. ONOS' ecosystem comprises of ON.Lab and organizations that are funding and contributing to the ONOS initiative. These include AT&T, NTT Communications, SK Telecom, China Unicom, Ciena, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel and NEC; members who are collaborating and contributing to ONOS include ONF, Infoblox, SRI, Internet2, Happiest Minds, KISTI, KAIST, Kreonet, NAIM, CNIT, Black Duck, Create-Net, Criterion Networks, ETRI and the broader ONOS community. Learn how you can get involved with ONOS at onosproject.org.About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux and collaborative software development. Founded in 2000, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system and collaborative software development by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting Collaborative Projects, Linux conferences including LinuxCon, and generating original research and content that advances the understanding of Linux and collaborative software development. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.###
The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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Media Advisory: Linux Foundation Debuts Digital Video Series to Raise Awareness of the Ubiquity of Linux
Series gives thanks to Linux and open source community; flips reality on its head to illustrate how pervasive Linux is today
DUBLIN, LinuxCon Europe and Embedded Linux Conference Europe, October 5, 2015 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today announced the immediate release of its digital video series, “A World Without Linux,” a web series that flips this reality on its head to illustrate in an entertaining fashion just how pervasive Linux is today.
This fictitious world is such a preposterous notion that the scenarios depicted in the series help us understand how much Linux is a part of our everyday lives and allows us to thank the developers and companies who support the operating system.
Linux is the world’s largest collaborative project in the history of computing. It runs most of the world’s technology infrastructure and is supported by more developers and companies than any other platform. It’s literally everywhere - from phones to cars, the office, the home and more. It also powers the Internet, the cloud, the world’s stock exchanges, supercomputers, embedded devices and more.
“Part of our mission at Linux Foundation is to promote Linux by raising awareness about how fundamental it has become to our everyday lives – and to support the Linux and open source community that makes this possible,” said Amanda McPherson, chief marketing officer, The Linux Foundation. “A world without Linux is quite difficult to imagine. Thanks to the hundreds of thousands of individuals and companies who support Linux, we don’t have to. Please join us in thanking this community by sharing these videos and bringing more awareness to their amazing work.”
Starting today, viewers will be able to join characters Annie, Sam and String as they navigate this unimaginable world that puts a funny twist on the story of Linux and brings awareness to the fundamental ubiquity of this technology.
The first episode addresses how a world without Linux would impact how we use the Internet and is live today at the following link: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/world-without-linux or on The Linux Foundation’s YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLinuxFoundation Upcoming episodes address what a world without Linux would mean to the way we navigate, connect and explore the world.
The Linux Foundation will also host a contest to find Linux-themed “Easter eggs” in select episodes, as well as clues leading to the final episode. Winners will receive #WorldWithoutLinux T-shirts, tattoos and pins. For more information about the contest, please visit: http://www.linux.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=857209
For more information about the contests and to keep up with the series, please follow the #WorldWithoutLinux hashtag on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/#WorldWithoutLinux
About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux and collaborative software development. Founded in 2000, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system and collaborative software development by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting Collaborative Projects, Linux conferences, including LinuxCon, and generating original research and content that advances the understanding of Linux and collaborative software development. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.
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Trademarks: The Linux Foundation, Linux Standard Base and The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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Linux Foundation to Host Open License Compliance Project FOSSology
DUBLIN, LinuxCon Europe and Embedded Linux Conference Europe, October 5, 2015 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today announced it will host the FOSSology project, an open source license compliance software project and set of tools.
FOSSology was originally founded by HP in 2007. Through community collaboration and industry adoption, it has become a trusted tool for open source license compliance. FOSSology 3.0 is expected to be released this week.
“As Linux and open source have become the primary building blocks for creating today’s most innovative technologies, projects like FOSSology are more relevant than ever,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “FOSSology’s proven track record for improving efficiency in license compliance is the perfect complement to a suite of open compliance initiatives hosted at The Linux Foundation. This work is among the most important work that we all do.”
FOSSology is used by a variety of companies from law firms like HP Partners Sullivan & Worcester to technology companies such as Bloomberg, HP, Siemens and Wind River. The project allows companies to run license and copyright scans and in one click; and users can generate a Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) file or a ReadMe with the copyrights notices from their software.
“FOSSology is a mature compliance project which has benefited from a vibrant community of users and contributors. We believe that The Linux Foundation’s hosting of the project will enable it to be further utilized across the industry and help increase the adoption of Linux and other open source software,” said Eileen Evans, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Software, Cloud and Open Source, HP.
As the use of Linux and other open source software has exploded in recent years, the need has risen for trusted compliance tools and projects hosted by a neutral party. With today’s complex supply chains, it can be difficult to keep up with the code and licenses present in shipping products. To address that complexity, The Linux Foundation hosts a variety of open compliance efforts including OpenChain and SPDX, as well as a set of compliance tools and training curricula.
Siemens is presenting more about the latest release of FOSSology this week at LinuxCon Dublin. To learn more about the session, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe/program/schedule
To learn more about FOSSology, please visit: http://fossology.org
About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux and collaborative software development. Founded in 2000, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system and collaborative software development by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting Collaborative Projects, Linux conferences, including LinuxCon and generating original research and content that advances the understanding of Linux and collaborative software development. More information can be found at http://www.linuxfoundation.org.
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The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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Linux Foundation Announces Workgroup to Standardize the Future of the Software Supply Chain
OpenChain Workgroup will create a set of best practices to ease open source compliance for companies and developers
DUBLIN, LinuxCon Europe and Embedded Linux Conference Europe, October 5, 2015 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today announced the OpenChain Workgroup, a community effort to standardize common best practices for open software compliance. It is expected to reduce costs and duplication of efforts and ease friction points in the software supply chain.
Founding members of the OpenChain Workgroup include ARM, Qualcomm, Samsung, SanDisk and Wind River.
“Because nearly every new technology today is built using Linux and open source software, today’s software supply chain is the open source software supply chain,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “This means we need to revisit the way we standardize processes and compliance for checking code and ensure the cost and efficiency benefits of open source are sustained for decades to come. This is a long-term commitment to open compliance and one we take very seriously.”
Linux and open source software are being used to build the most innovative technologies of our time. It is being used everywhere, by more developers than ever before. Understanding the security and nature of open source components included in software packages that are delivered throughout the supply chain is critical to ensuring the benefits of Linux and open source software – cost, speed of development, freedom in innovation – are realized time and again.
The OpenChain Workgroup will provide a baseline process that can be customized as companies and developers see fit. It will initially provide a set of guidelines intended to be used as a basis for monitoring and developing compliance programs. OpenChain will leverage existing best practices in the Linux ecosystem such as Debian, as well as compatible formats with the Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX), a standard format for communicating the components, licenses and copyrights associated with a software package. The SPDX standard helps facilitate compliance with free and open source software licenses by standardizing the way license information is shared across the software supply chain.
To learn more about the OpenChain Workgroup and to participate in early discussions, please visit: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openchain/start
Member Comments
ARM
“As Linux becomes the standard platform for many new deployments, ensuring the open source software supply chain is trusted becomes increasingly important,” said Hobson Bullman, general manager, development solutions group, ARM. “This new initiative will help companies manage open source software more effectively and promote best practices in the industry.”Qualcomm
“It’s time to eradicate the confusion, inefficiency and unnecessary cost from open source compliance. As an industry, we have a huge opportunity to improve compliance, reduce inefficiency and build common practices across the board. The OpenChain Workgroup is the open source ecosystem coming together on compliance to do the right thing, consistently, responsibly and well,” said David Marr, Vice President and Legal Counsel of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.SanDisk
“As more free and open source (FOSS) software enters the supply chain via third parties, it is important for companies to be able to comply with FOSS license obligations. OpenChain helps reduce duplication of effort and facilitates the creation of a trusted supply chain. The ability to adapt the OpenChain framework to big and small organization compliance practices is a huge plus as well,” said Lisa LaForge, Director, Legal and Chairperson of SanDisk’s Open Source Steering Committee.Wind River
“Exchanging important open source compliance information in the software supply chain is critical and requires a certain level of discipline,” said Dinyar Dastoor, vice president and general manager of operating system platforms at Wind River. “As a longtime contributor, recipient and solution provider of open source, Wind River believes the OpenChain Workgroup will deliver the needed discipline and standardization that Linux and the open source movement will require as it continues on its path of success.”About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux and collaborative software development. Founded in 2000, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system and collaborative software development by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting Collaborative Projects, Linux conferences, including LinuxCon and generating original research and content that advances the understanding of Linux and collaborative software development. More information can be found at http://www.linuxfoundation.org.
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The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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The Linux Foundation Announces Project to Advance Real-Time Linux
Altera, ARM, Google, Intel, IBM, National Instruments, OSADL, Texas Instruments and others to advance mainline kernel support of Real-Time Linux, saving millions in research and development
DUBLIN, LinuxCon Europe and Embedded Linux Conference Europe, October 5, 2015 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, today announced the new Real-Time Linux (RTL) Collaborative Project. RTL will bring together industry leaders and experts to advance and maximize technologies for the robotics, telecom, manufacturing, aviation and medical industries, among others.
The RTL kernel supports the largest range of architectures of any operating system and can leverage Linux device drivers, file systems and more from the mainline kernel. Real-time properties make it possible to control robots, data acquisition systems, manufacturing plants and other time-sensitive instruments and machines from RTL applications. It provides the critical infrastructure for some of the world’s most complex computing systems.
Google is a founding Platinum member of this work. Gold members include National Instruments, OSADL and Texas Instruments; and silver members include Altera, ARM, Intel and IBM. RTL’s Thomas Gleixner, who has been maintaining the RTL branch for more than a decade, will become a Linux Foundation Fellow to dedicate even more time to his work on RTL. He joins other Linux Foundation Fellows, including Linux kernel stable maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, embedded Linux developer, and Yocto Project maintainer Richard Purdie and Linux creator Linus Torvalds. Gold member OSADL has been actively involved in supporting Gleixner’s work.
“The work we’ve been doing on Real-Time Linux has been critical in advancing complex real-time computing systems. But technology is moving fast, and the RTL project, with support from across the industry, will allow us to sustain this work and successfully integrate with the mainline kernel for long-term support of these technologies,” said Thomas Gleixner, Linux kernel developer and Linux Foundation Fellow.
“Code that is built and maintained collaboratively is better and less expensive than software that is not,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “By coming together to advance Real-Time Linux as a community, products and systems will be supported by the best developers in the world for years to come.”
The RTL Collaborative Project will focus on pushing critical code upstream to be reviewed and eventually merged into the mainline Linux kernel where it will receive ongoing support. This will save the industry millions of dollars in research and development. It will also improve quality of the code through robust upstream kernel test infrastructure, since anything maintained in the mainline kernel is collectively supported by thousands of developers and hundreds of companies around the world. The Project will conduct a quarterly code plan review, meet face-to-face at least twice a year at Embedded Linux Conference and contribute to testing and documentation of the project.
For more information about the RTL Collaborative Project, please visit: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/real-time
Member Comments
Altera
"Contributing upstream to the Linux kernel is a critical element of Altera’s open source strategy,” says Vicki Mitchell, Director of Software Engineering, Heterogeneous Programming Group. “Upstreaming Preempt RT into the mainline kernel provides significant benefits including support for a broader range of applications.” Altera's contribution to kernel code ensures Linux developers can work on Altera’s architectures, SoCFPGA and NiiosII. Altera's contributions don't stop there, however,” said Mitchell. “The ability to collaborate with like-minded developers, customers and partners within the Linux community in a synergistic manner ensures the longevity of Linux and is paramount to Altera and its customers' success in the marketplace.”ARM
“We see ARM technology being deployed in an increasing range of applications, such as networking infrastructure, where Linux is a core technology,” said Charlene Marini, vice president, segment marketing, ARM. “The Real-Time Linux Collaborative Project will enable the ARM ecosystem to further optimize their products with increased confidence in the long-term support from upstream Linux kernel.”Intel
“As a leading contributor to Linux, Intel is excited to be a part of the Real-Time Linux project and participate in the long-term success of the project. Linux’s prevalence as an operating system for embedded platforms and new devices will help applications with real-time requirements, giving us confidence in its long-term support,” said Mark Skarpness, director of Embedded Software, Open Source Technology Center at Intel Corporation.National Instruments
"By collaborating with The Linux Foundation through the Real-Time Linux Collaborative Project, we are able to make an informed investment to ensure the continued success of an open source project which will enhance future generations of our devices,” said Omid Sojoodi, Vice President of R&D for Application and Embedded Software at National Instruments. “Having this patchset upstream will make Linux a first-class RTOS out of the box.”OSADL
“We’ve been supporting Real-Time Linux for a long time and look forward to transferring our funding activities to the newly founded Linux Foundation RTL project. In addition to funding Real-Time Linux, we will continue to help the industry deploy it in products through training, quality assurance, safety processes and legal support,” said Carsten Emde, General Manager, OSADL.Texas Instruments
“Thomas Gleixner’s work on Real-time Linux has been an integral part of our customers’ development process, and with TI’s commitment to RTL, we’re thrilled to see what advancements will come now that he can dedicate more time to further improving and integrating it with the mainline kernel,” Jon Humphreys, Linux Core Product Development Director, Texas Instruments.About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux and collaborative software development. Founded in 2000, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system and collaborative software development by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting Collaborative Projects, Linux conferences, including LinuxCon, and generating original research and content that advances the understanding of Linux and collaborative software development. More information can be found at http://www.linuxfoundation.org.
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The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.