LF is basically a deployable organizational model, typically taken advantage of by someone with an existing project or projects they want to release & collaborate on.
there are blockchain, mainframe, embedded os projects, countless more, under LF.
worth noting that Linux Foundation began as a merger of between Open Source Development Labs (who worked to push Linux adoption in enterprise) and the Free Standards Group (who worked to push open source standards) to standardize Linux. Only one of these groups started with an exclusive Linux focus, and that same group also focused on the enterprise & driving adoptability.
> and that same group also focused on the enterprise & driving adoptability.
well, sort of. there were a couple of half-assed pushes with things like linux for data centers, but mostly it was a data center filled with hardware that got very little use other than one asterisk system sitting in a corner, a stack of machines/disk that could be "checked out", but mostly got used for automated testing, and an NEC numa itanium machine that barely worked. add to that, projects that intel no longer wanted to support being shoved off, and you have a pretty good view of day to day life at the OSDL.
source: worked there, doing day to day life at the OSDL.
OSDL was almost certainly too focused on Linux vertical scalability at the time because that's what IBM and others were focused on. While things like NUMA optimizations became more broadly important over time (as those architectures became part of smaller and smaller systems), it's of course not how Linux primarily grew early on. The current LF executive director actually held that position at FSG when they merged.
there are blockchain, mainframe, embedded os projects, countless more, under LF.
worth noting that Linux Foundation began as a merger of between Open Source Development Labs (who worked to push Linux adoption in enterprise) and the Free Standards Group (who worked to push open source standards) to standardize Linux. Only one of these groups started with an exclusive Linux focus, and that same group also focused on the enterprise & driving adoptability.