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Many of the issues associated with container technology are due to infrastructure decisions made long before containers, cloud and the internet even existed.

With or without the nod to GNU, desktop Linux is still the same under the hood.

Docker software engineer Anusha Ragunathan talks about what the year ahead holds in store for the Docker platform and container technology.

Google’s failed social network is now just another empty storefront on the Boulevard of Abandoned Tech.

On the opening day of this year's Data Center World in Phoenix, Yuval Bachar, LinkedIn's principal engineer of data center architecture, was on hand to explain why the social network's Open19 Project will be an important part of data centers' move to the edge.

I can’t help thinking that FOSS as a whole has lost its sense of shared values. Nor do groups that might provide those shared values, like the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the Linux Foundation, seem capable of providing the leadership that could provide those shared values.

Networking and security company says it's only in the early stages of developing for containers and hopes the acquisition will hasten that process.

Operators make life easier for Kubernetes users, but they're so popular that finding good ones is not easy. Operatorhub.io is an attempt to fix that.

For running containers at the edge, Rancher Labs has created K3s, a Kubernetes distribution that weighs-in at 40MB and needs only 512MB RAM to run.

The project is called Elisa, for "Enabling Linux in Safety Applications," and its aim is to create a shared set of tools and processes for building Linux-based systems that will operate without surprises in situations where failure could cause injury, loss of life, or result in significant property or environmental damage.

Even when removing Facebook, Microsoft, and Rackspace from the equation, sales of OCP-certified hardware is expected to reach $10.7 billion by 2022.

Taking the "open core" route, the startup wants the open source community to take its platform in more directions than it's been able to so far.

The two companies hope other telcos will follow AT&T's lead in building their 5G networks on open source software.

The container bug, difficult to exploit because it requires a malicious container to be installed on the system, affects nearly everyone using containers.

The open source Kubernetes startup Rancher makes public its easy way to deploy containerized applications to multiple clusters.

Friday was Mike Fey's first day on the job as the new CEO of Mesosphere. The six-year-old San Francisco-based startup announced his selection in December to fill the shoes of previous CEO, co-founder Florian Leibert, who announced in September plans to find a replacement to lead the company going forward.

More open source is moving to Redmond. Microsoft's purchase of Citus Data is about more than just the software. It's also about talent.

With LF Edge, the foundation wants to establish an open edge computing framework that's agnostic of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system.

Ubuntu's IoT-ready Linux distribution makes developers lives easier and boosts security through use of Snaps.

A new survey indicates that 60 percent of IT pros working with containers experienced at least one container security incident in the last year.