Linux Foundation (LF) la mot hiep hoi thuong mai cong nghe phi loi nhuan đuoc thanh lap đe thuc đay, bao ve va mo rong Linux va hop tac phat trien, ho tro "cac tai nguyen cong nghe chia se lon nhat trong lich su." INo bat đau vao nam 2000 duoi su Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) va tro thanh to chuc hien nay khi OSDL hop nhat voi Free Standards Group (FSG.) Linux Foundation tai tro cho cong viec cua nguoi sang lap Linux, Linus Torvalds va nguoi bao tri Greg Kroah-Hartman va đuoc ho tro boi cac cong ty hang đau ve Linux va cac cong ty nguon mo, bao gom cac tap đoan cong nghe noi tieng nhu Cisco, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm va Samsung va cac nha phat trien tu khap the gioi. Trong nhung nam gan đay, Linux Foundation đa mo rong cac dich vu cua minh thong qua cac su kien, đao tao va chung nhan va Collaborative Projects. Vi du ve Collaborative Projects tai Linux Foundation bao gom Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), Hyperledger, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV), Cloud Foundry, Node.js Foundation...
Trong khi thong điep ban đau cua Linux Foundationla đe thuc đay, bao ve, va chuan hoa Linux "bang cach cung cap mot bo cac dich vu toan dien đe canh tranh hieu qua voi cac nen tang khep kin," to chuc đa mo rong pham vi cong viec cua minh bao gom nhieu linh vuc cua nganh cong nghiep phan mem nguon mo chuyen nghiep noi chung. Cac linh vuc nay bao gom cong nghe blockchain, may tinh hieu suat cao (HPC) va cong nghe container.


Lich su Nguon goc cua Linux Foundation co the đuoc truy nguon tu nam 2000 khi Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) đuoc thanh lap. OSDL  la mot to chuc phi loi nhuan đuoc ho tro boi mot tap đoan toan cau nham "đay nhanh viec trien khai Linux cho may tinh doanh nghiep" va "tro thanh trung tam chinh cho nganh cong nghiep Linux".."
Nam 2003, Linus Torvalds, nguoi tao ra he đieu hanh Linux tu do đa tuyen bo ong se tham gia to chuc nhu mot thanh vien cua OSDL đe lam viec toan thoi gian tren cac phien ban Linux tuong lai.
Nam 2007, OSDL hop nhat voi Free Standards Group, mot to chuc khac thuc đay viec ap dung Linux. Vao thoi điem đo, Jim Zemlin, nguoi đung đau FSG, đa tiep quan lam giam đoc đieu hanh cua The Linux Foundation.
Vao ngay 11/9/2011, website cua Linux Foundation đa bi go xuong do su vi pham đuoc phat hien 27 ngay truoc,  bao gom nhung gioi han cho tat ca ten mien phu đang hoat đong cua The Linux Foundation, nhu Linux.com. Cac phan chinh bao gom  OpenPrinting van khong ket noi vao ngay 20/10/2011. Qua trinh khoi phuc hoan tat vao ngay 4/1/2012(mac du mot trang, the Linux Developer Network,se khong đuoc phuc hoi).


Muc tieu The Linux Foundation đong vai tro la nguoi phat ngon trung gian cua nha cung cap cho Linux va tao ra noi dung goc giup nang cao su hieu biet ve nen tang Linux. No cung thuc đay su đoi moi bang cach to chuc su kien cong tac giua cong đong ky thuat Linux, cac nha phat trien ung dung, nganh cong nghiep va nguoi dung cuoi đe giai quyet cac van đe cap bach phai đoi mat voi Linux. Thong qua cac chuong trinh cong đong cua Linux Foundation, nguoi dung cuoi, cac nha phat trien va cac thanh vien trong nganh hop tac ve cac van đe ky thuat, luat phap va quang ba.
Đe cho nguoi tao ra Linux Kernel, Linus Torvalds va cac nha phat trien hat nhan quan trong khac van duy tri su đoc lap, the Linux Foundation tai tro cho ho đe ho co the lam viec toan thoi gian vao viec nang cao Linux.
The Linux Foundation cung cap cho cac nha phat trien ung dung cac dich vu chuan hoa va ho tro lam cho Linux tro thanh mot muc tieu hap dan cho nhung no luc phat trien cua ho. Chung bao gom: Linux Standard Base (LSB) va Linux Developer Network.
The Linux Foundation ho tro cong đong Linux bang cach cung cap thong tin ky thuat va giao duc thong qua cac su kien hang nam cua no, chang han nhu Linux Collaboration Summit, Linux Kernel Developers Summit, Va su kien LinuxCon tong the ke tu thang 9/2009.
The Linux Foundation also provides services to key areas of the Linux community, including an open source developer travel fund and other administrative assistance. Through its workgroups, members and developers can collaborate on key technical areas. There is also a training program that is vendor-neutral, technically advanced, and created with the actual leaders of the Linux development community.


Cuong vi quan ly cong đong Voi cong đong Linux kernel, The Linux Foundation  to chuc cac co so ha tang CNTT cua minh va to chuc cac hoi nghi nhu Linux Kernel Summit va Linux Plumbers Conference. Ho cung to chuc mot Ban Co van Ky thuat bao gom cac nha phat trien hat nhan Linux.  Mot trong nhung nha phat trien đuoc chi đinh đe tham gia vao Ban quan tri Linux Foundation.


= Hop tac voi Goodwill =
Vao thang 1/2016, The Linux Foundation đa cong bo moi quan he hop tac voi  Goodwill Central Texas đe giup đo hang tram nguoi thiet thoi tu cac cong đong it đuoc phuc vu va nhieu nguon goc khac nhau đuoc đao tao can thiet đe bat đau su nghiep moi va sinh loi trong Linux IT..


= Community Developer Travel Fund =
Đe tai tro cho cac nha phat trien xung đang đe đay nhanh viec giai quyet van đe ky thuat va cong tac trong cong đong ma nguon mo, The Linux Foundation đa khoi đong Community Developer Travel Fund. Tai tro danh cho cac nha phat trien cong đong uu tu voi thanh tich phat trien ma nguon mo đa đuoc chung minh la khong the co đuoc nguon tai chinh đe tham du cac su kien ky thuat tu nha tuyen dung. Cac ung dung co tai đay Luu tru ngay 16 thang 3 nam 2016 tai Wayback Machine.


= Core Infrastructure Initiative =
The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), mot du an đuoc quan ly boi The Linux Foundation cho phep cac cong ty cong nghe, cac ben lien quan nganh cong nghiep va cac nha phat trien đuoc coi trong cung xac đinh va tai tro cho cac du an ma nguon mo quan trong can đuoc ho tro. Thang 6/2015, to chuc nay thong bao ho tro tai chinh gan 500.000 USD cho ba du an moi đe ho tro tot hon cac yeu to an ninh quan trong cua co so ha tang thong tin toan cau.


Thanh vien Tinh đen thang 1/2017, co hon 260 thanh vien doanh nghiep xac đinh voi ly tuong va su menh cua Linux Foundation:

Thanh vien Platinum (12), nhung thanh vien đong gop 500,000USD hang nam, bao gom. (Liet ke theo thu tu bang chu cai) AT&T Cisco Systems, Fujitsu Ltd, Hitachi, Huawei, IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., NEC Corp., Oracle Corp., Qualcomm Innovation Center Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd
Thanh vien vang (19), nhung thanh vien đong gop 100,000USD hang nam, bao gom. Liet ke theo thu tu bang chu cai) Accenture, Citrix Systems, Doky, Ebay, EMC, Facebook, Google, Mazda, NetApp, Panasonic, PlumGrid, Renesas, Seagate, Suse, Symantec, Toshiba, Toyota, Verizon, Terremark, VMware
Thanh vien bac(244), nhung thanh vien đong gop 5,000-20,000USD (Nhan rong voi so luong nhan vien) hanh nam (Xep theo bang chu cai) Adobe, ADP, Advanced Telematic, Agenda, Aisin Aw, AliCloud, AllGo, AllWinner, Alps, Altera, Amarula Solutions, Amazon, AMD, Amihan Global Strategies, Apcera, AppFormix, Apprenda, ARM, Atlassian, Autodesk, Avi Networks, Axis, BayLibre, Barefoot Networks, BasysKom, Bell Canada, Bitdefender, Bitnami, BlackDuck, BMC, Borqs, Bosch, Broadcom, Bromium, CA Technologies, Calastone, Calix, Canonical, CapitalOne, Cavium, Centrify, China Mobile, China Merchants Bank, China Telecom, Cinemo, Cirrus Logic, Cleversafe, Cloudbase Solutions, Cloudify, CloudLinux, CloudSoft, Cluster HQ, CME Group, Codethink, Collabora, Comcast Cable, Compuware, Concurrent, Container Solutions, ContainerShip, Core OS, Endpoint Protector, Credativ, Cumulus, Data Centred, Data Kinetics, Datawise.o, Datto, Daynix, Deis, Dell, Denso, Denx, DigitalOcean, Docker, DreamHost, DreamWorks Studios, DTCC, EasyStack, Eldarion, ENEA, Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute|ETRI, Ericsson, Eureka, Exablox, Exoscale, Fluendo, FOSSter, Foxt, Fuji Heavy Industries, Fusion-Io, GenyMobile, GitHub, GlobalLogic, Goldman Sachs, Harman, Hi Corp., Honda, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HSA Foundation, Igalia, Iguaz.io, IIX, Imagination, Infoblox, Innovium, Intrinsyc, Ishi Systems, Land Rover - Jaguar, Joyent, J.P. Morgan, JVC-Kenwood, Kinvolk, Kismatic, Knowles, Konsulko Group, Kontena, Kyup, Kubique, Lenovo, LG, Linaro, LinBit, Lineo Solutions, Linutronix, Linux Professional Institute, LiveWyer, LMAX Echange, MariaDB, mcCloudWare, Mediatek, Meinberg, Mellanox, MentorGraphics, Mesosphere, MetaSwitch, Metaswitch Networks, Meyer Sound, Microchip, Micron, Micware, Millenium, Miracle, Mitsubishi Electric, Monax, National Instruments, NCSoft, NexB, Nexenta, Next Thing Co., Nextiva, Nginx, NIpa, Nissan, Nokia, NTT, NTTData, Nutanix, Nvidia, NXP, OSSystems, OrangeFS, OpenLogic, OpenSynergy, Open vStorage, SADL, OwnCloud, Palamida, Paxos, PayPal, Pelagicore, Pinterest, Pioneer, Pivotal, Plansys, Plexistor, Polyverse, Portworx, Produban, Proxmox, The Qt Company, Rackspace, Raisecom, Rancher, Rausch Netzwerktechnik, Red Hat, Resin.io, Restlet, Ricoh, Robin, RUsBITech, RX-M, Sampo Software, SanDisk, SAP SE, Savoir-Faire Linux, Scality, Scalock, SELTECH, Serenata Flowers, sgi, Siemens, Sine Nomine Associates, SmartBear, Solace Systems, Solarflare, Sony, Soramitsu, SR Labs, StorageOS, Suntec, Supernap, SwiftStack, Symbio, Symphony Teleca, Synopsys, Sysdig, Target, Tech Mahindra, Texas Instruments, ThunderSoft, Tick42, TimeSys, Toyotsu Electronics, Travelping, Treasure Data, Tuxera, Twistlock, Twitter, Univa, VALVe, Vicom Infinity, Virtual Open Systems, Wercker, Western Digital, Williams Garcia, Wind, Witekio, Witz Corporation, Deepin, Xilinx, Yahoo!, ZTE
Lien ket(7): Clemson, Fondazione Inuit, Konkuk University, NXT, Seneca, Zhejang University, Trace
Cac thanh vien cua hoi đong quan tri cua quy đuoc cac thanh vien trong hoi đong bau ra  (cac thanh vien cao hon se bau nhieu thanh vien hon). Thanh vien cung mo rong cho cac ca nhan (cho phep ho chon hai giam đoc va chay đua rieng cho mot trong hai ghe) cho đen thang 1 nam 2016, khi nhung đieu khoan đo đa đuoc loai bo. Cac ca nhan bay gio chi co the la "nguoi ung ho".


Tai tro Nguon tai tro cua no đen tu cac Thanh vien Platinum: Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm, va Samsung va Hitachi trong nhieu nam. 9 đon vi đeu co đai dien trong hoi đong Quan tri, ho chiem đa so trong hoi đong 16 nguoi nay.
Tinh đen thang 4/2014, to chuc thu phi hang nam tri gia it nhat la 6,245,000 USD:

8 thanh vien Platinum members
16 Thanh vien Vang
224 Thanh vien Bac


Cac su kien Cac su kien cua The Linux Foundation la noi nhung nguoi sang tao, nguoi bao tri va nhung nguoi thuc hien cac du an ma nguon quan trong nhat gap nhau. Cac su kien cua Linux Foundation trong nam 2015 thu hut gan 15,000 nha phat trien, bao tri vien, quan tri he thong, cac lanh đao tu tuong, giam đoc đieu hanh doanh nghiep va cac chuyen gia nganh cong nghiep khac tu hon 3.100 to chuc tren 85 quoc gia.  Nhieu du an ma nguon mo cung đong thoi đinh vi cac su kien cua ho tai cac su kien cua The Linux Foundation đe tan dung su hop tac giua cong đong voi cac du an trong cung nganh.
Cac su kien 2016 đuoc len ke hoach se bao gom nhieu xu huong trong ma nguon mo, bao gom Big Data, cac ung dung đam may, cac ung dung chua, IoT, mang, bao mat va hon the nua.

Enterprise End User Summit
Linux Security Summit
TIZEN Developer Summit
TIZEN Developer Conference
Open Compliance Summit
Enterprise Users Meeting
Collaboration Summit
AllSeen Alliance Summit
OPNFV Summit
Linux Security Summit
Linux Plumbers Conference
Open Daylight Summit
Xen Project Developer Summit
Xen Project User Summit
The Annual Linux Kernel Summit
Korea Linux Forum
CloudStack Days
MesosCon
KVM Forum
ContainerCon
Automotive Linux Summit
CloudOpen
LinuxCon
ApacheCon
Embedded Linux Conference cf. http://www.embeddedlinuxconference.com/
Android Builders Summit
VAULT Linux Storage and Filesystem Conference


Chu thich Lien ket ngoai Website chinh thuc 
Linux Foundation Training
Linux.com
Linux Foundation Publications
Linux Adoption Trends: A Survey of Enterprise End Users Luu tru ngay 8 thang 5 nam 2016 tai Wayback Machine