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Linux & Open Source 2019: Chrome OS, Snap, Flatpak, RISC-V, and Stallman

We look back on 2019 using our 2020 hindsight at some of the important happenings during the last year in the world of Linux and open source.

Who Will Succeed the Current Free Software Leaders

Most FOSS leaders came into prominence during the 1980s and 90s and are now approaching, or have passed, the age when most people retire. Are free software organizations ready for the change that appears to be just around the corner?

What Service Meshes Are, and Why Istio Leads the Pack

Cloud-native technologies like containers and microservices have made infrastructure infinitely more complex. Service meshes are there to help.

VMware’s Joe Beda: Enterprise Open Source Is Growing

One of the fathers of Kubernetes says enterprise customers see the most benefit from the community-driven approach because their users get the opportunity to influence the direction development takes.

Google's Keeping Knative Development Under Its Thumb 'For the Foreseeable Future'

In addition to Knative, which is for deploying serverless workloads, Google evidently plans to keep the Kubernetes service mesh, Istio, in-house.

No Matter What You’ve Heard, the Docker Container Ship Is Not Sinking

Although the memo does indicate that the company is needing some cash to tide it over or help it expand, the situation doesn't seem to indicate that the Docker container can't weather the storm.

CentOS May Soon Take a Larger Role In RHEL Development

The relationship between CentOS and Red Hat is important because CentOS has a huge installed base, mostly comprised of well-staffed enterprises wanting to take advantage of Red Hat Enterprise Linux's rock-solid stability, but without the expense of a Red Hat support subscription.

Yesterday’s Man: The Fall of Richard Stallman

Although the consensus seems to be that it was time for the founder of the GNU project and the Free Software movement to step down, we shouldn't forget his many contributions aimed at keeping tech free.

Why Debian Is the Gold Standard of Upstream Desktop Linux

The last decade or so has seen Debian largely repositioned as an upstream distribution, making it an essential component of the desktop Linux infrastructure. Does your distro have “Debian Inside”?

VMWorld: Look at Acquisitions for Virtualization's Cloud Play

This past year, VMware doubled their acquisitions pace. The buying spree is part of VMware's efforts to transform itself from its roots as a virtualization company into a container and Kubernetes (and yes, virtualization) focused cloud-everything company.

IBM Open Sources Its Workhorse Power Chip Architecture

  • Data Center Knowledge; By Christine Hall (Posted by brideoflinux on Aug 23, 2019 4:30 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM
RISC-V now has formidable competition from an architecture with a long track record in servers and supercomputers.

Western Digital's Long Trip from Open Standards to Open Source Chips

It started as a microprocessor pioneer in the 1970s. Now, the company is charting a new course in open source silicon.

Intel Invests $6.5M in Enterprise Linux Security Startup Capsule8

Used by Lyft, among others, Capsule8's platform automates a lot of tedious manual work involved in securing enterprise infrastructure.

Mesosphere Becomes D2IQ, Moves Into Kubernetes, Big Data

The jargonized new name means "Day 2 IQ," with Day 2 being a DevOps term that refers to the operations part of the software development lifecycle and with IQ equating to "smart."

Three Companies Bringing Innovation to Open Keyboards

  • FOSS Force; By Bruce Byfield (Posted by brideoflinux on Aug 5, 2019 6:56 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
As open source hardware becomes a real thing, open keyboard companies are redesigning the input device from the ground up using open designs.

Three Weeks After Closing the Red Hat Deal, IBM Rolls Out New Cloud Offerings

Managed services and software optimized for Red Hat OpenShift and Linux aimed at helping enterprises move to the cloud.

Quick Change in CEOs at SUSE Linux

The company behind SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and related software suddenly announced a new CEO, just months after becoming independent.

What Desktop Innovation Needs to Succeed

Although changes made to Linux desktop environments over the last decade have given innovation a bad name, some, like KDE’s Activities, show promise.

Cloudera Follows Hortonworks' Open Source Lead

Trying to survive the carnage AWS and the like are causing in the Big Data space, Cloudera is open sourcing its entire product line.

IBM's New Open Source Kabanero Promises to Simplify Kubernetes for DevOps

At OSCON, IBM unveiled a new open source platform that promises to make Kubernetes easier to manage for DevOps teams.

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