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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.

The SUSE server (SLES) for Arm processors is now available directly from SUSE with a new price structure that counts cores and sockets.

Red Hat, which maintains Linux's systemd, has issued patches for CVE-2018-16864 and CVE-2018-16865 and has given the exploits an "Important" impact rating with severity ratings of 7.4 and 7.5. These patches should be available soon, if not already, for most Linux distributions.

When I asked for input about the new GitHub pricing on Twitter, one follower immediately responded, "'Private' and 'free.' They always forget the quotes."

Wave, a startup developing hardware for deep learning in data centers, open sources the decades-old MIPS architecture.

Linux servers top the list of victims to a ransomware attack that seems to take advantage of poorly configured IPMI devices.

The problem is that such restrictions run afoul of the Open Source Definition used by the Open Source Initiative, the standards organization that decides which licenses qualify as open source. The restriction also means that any code covered by the license probably can't be used within any other open source project.

This week there's further proof that RISC-V has arrived. Something over 1,000 professionals, mostly on the hardware side of tech, are attending the first ever RISC-V Summit at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley.

First fruits of the collaboration between the Linux Foundation and the open source project will be two "getting started" guides to be made available at next week's RISC-V Summit.

In what might be its last acquisition as an independent company, Red Hat has purchased Israel-based multi-cloud storage software company NooBaa.

Shuttleworth is probably playing a bit with smoke and mirrors here, however, and there's likely not as much "new" here as it might seem. According to Canonical's website, traditional support with free security and bug fixes for Ubuntu 18.04 still runs out in five years, or in April 2023. After that, you'll need to write a check to Canonical to keep your machines safe and secure.

Another important open source company has been picked up by a big proprietary player. This time it's the Seattle-based Kubernetes-focused Heptio, which is being acquired by the virtualization giant VMware. The deal was announced on Tuesday at VMworld Europe in Barcelona, just a little over a week after IBM picked up Red Hat for a cool $33 billion. Details of the sale are not being made public.

While the big story last week was the $33 billion IBM shelled out to take Red Hat under its wing, another open source company was busy attracting investor interest as well. On Thursday, the six-year-old open source startup, HashiCorp, whose cloud tools are popular with DevOps, announced it has raised $100 million in Series D funding.