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Linux Foundation hires kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman
One of the principle maintainers of the Linux kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman, has joined the Linux Foundation as a fellow, the same position held by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, the foundation announced. read more »
HP plans September open source release for webOS
HP has announced that it plans to release the code behind webOS in September under the Apache License, Version 2.0. read more »
RainStor launches Big Data Analytics on Hadoop
RainStor has announced Big Data Analytics on Hadoop, which it describes as the industry's first enterprise-class database that runs natively on Hadoop. read more »
Red Hat to offer JasperSoft open source PaaS analytics suite
Open source business intelligence vendor JasperSoft wants its software to become another arrow in the quiver for developers using commercial PaaS (platform-as-a-service) offerings. read more »
Telecom giant joins OpenStack
AT&T became the first US telecom service provider to join OpenStack, the organisation that has developed an open-source cloud software stack. read more »
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10 up-and-coming open source projects you should know about
With so many open source software projects under way at any given moment, it can be difficult to keep tabs on all that's going on. read more »
Linux lovers should try FreeBSD for stable systems
Linux may not yet enjoy the widespread recognition that Windows does, but there's no denying its popularity on servers, its growing use on desktops, or its ubiquity in the mobile world in the form of Android. read more »
Can open source save the planet?
Ambitious open source projects are nothing new. After all, the free software movement started with the GNU project - the creation of free tools to build a free operating system - which at one point many would have considered an impossible dream. read more »
Windows Store makes a special allowance for open source
Microsoft has caused plenty of angst among fans of open source software over the years - just recently with its secure boot plans for Windows 8, for example - but this week it appears to have delivered a small gift instead. read more »
Stallman Dialogues parody site gets the RMS seal of approval
A recent online posting of Richard Stallman's astonishingly long set of instructions for those who would hire him as an event speaker has spawned a parody website, The Stallman Dialogues, as well as some debate over the propriety of people constantly poking fun at the enigmatic and controversial founder of the Free Software Foundation. read more »
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ACTA Update II
Although ACTA is billed as a global treaty, there are only two participants that really matter: the US and the European Union. If either of those dropped out, it would be completely ineffectual. I think the US is unlikely to...read more »
GOV.UK: What Open Source Has Been Waiting For?
I've been writing for what seems decades about the UK government's failure to take advantage of open source. And I've been writing for what is certainly years about its promises to do better. It finally looks as if it is...read more »
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