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Why Mozilla Wants Firefox in Windows 10

I'm all for user choice and personally i have chosen not to run Windows, but for those that do choose Windows, Microsoft really should enable browser choice, though I'm not sure all that many will choose Firefox anymore.

Seven Key Milestones in OpenStack's Five-Year History

  • eWEEK; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jul 27, 2015 6:54 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Cloud
On July 19, 2010, Chris Kemp, at the time NASA's CTO for IT, went on stage at the OSCON open-source conference to announce OpenStack, a new open-source effort along with Rackspace. Five years later, OpenStack has emerged as one of the leading cloud platforms governments and big-name companies around the world use.

Open Container Project Gets New Initiative, Sees Member Growth

  • eWEEK; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jul 23, 2015 6:31 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Cloud
The Linux Foundation's Open Container Project is getting a new name and is moving forward on developing the runc baseline component for containers.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Hits General Availability

  • ServerWatch.com; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jul 22, 2015 1:18 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Red Hat
One of the new security features in RHEL 6.7 is the ability to configure udev mounts as read-only.

"This gives customers a way to restrict their users' ability to write data to removable media, such as USB thumb drives,"

Foundation Launches to Unify Open-Source Cloud Efforts

  • eWEEK; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jul 21, 2015 12:17 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Cloud
Google's Kubernetes joins a host of vendors and projects as part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a new Linux Foundation-backed effort.

Facebook Enhances Osquery Security Analysis Platform

  • eWEEK; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jul 21, 2015 4:38 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Security
Facebook is adding query packs to the open-source osquery security framework that group together common sets of use cases for data analysis.

Google Embraces Rival OpenStack Cloud Technology

Although Google has its own cloud technology, it also sees value in OpenStack, and so the company is joining the OpenStack Foundation as a corporate sponsor.

Zend Server 8.5 Announced as PHP 7 Release Nears

  • ServerWatch.com; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jul 15, 2015 2:20 PM EDT)
  • Groups: PHP
Zend, the PHP company, is updating its namesake PHP application server to version 8.5 providing new features and performance for users. The Zend Server 8.5 release builds on the Zend Server 8 milestone which debuted with the Z-Ray application insight technology.

Drupal 8 Nears Finish Line

  • Enterpriseappstoday; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jul 15, 2015 3:34 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Community
Popular open source CMS refresh still isn't "done," but it's getting close with announcement of commercial support.

IBM Chasing $20B Linux Server Market With Power Systems

VIDEO: Doug Balog, general manager of IBM's Power Systems, discusses the big opportunity he sees for Power in Linux.

Linux Foundation's CII Now Assessing Open-Source Project Risk

  • eWEEK; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jul 10, 2015 11:32 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Security; Groups: Linux
The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) is creating a risk score for open-source projects to help identify those in need of funding and additional support.

OpenSSL Patches for 'Boring' Certificate Risk

  • eWEEK; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jul 9, 2015 5:51 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Security
e CVE-2015-1793 advisory, titled "Alternative chains certificate forgery," is a non-trivial risk that, if exploited, could enable an attacker to impersonate a legitimate digital security certificate. The SSL/TLS digital certificate asserts the identity and authenticity of a given site and connection.

DigitalOcean CEO Considers Open-Sourcing Platform to take on OpenStack

  • eWEEK; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jul 8, 2015 10:48 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Cloud
DigitalOcean CEO Ben Uretsky explains how he's building one of the world's fastest-growing cloud providers and his plans for open-sourcing his company's platform.

OpenStack Meiji ?? Set to Succeed Liberty

  • InternetNews.com; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jul 7, 2015 7:19 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Cloud
The next major OpenStack cloud platform release is set to debut in October and is codenamed : Liberty but what follows Liberty? OpenStack Foundation members have voted and the winning name is Meiji.

Mozilla Fixes Flaws With Firefox 39, Previews Firefox 40

  • eWEEK; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jul 6, 2015 10:27 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Mozilla
The Logjam SSL/TLS vulnerability is among the 13 security advisories in latest stable release of the open-source Firefox Web browse

Linux Mint 17.2 Improves Desktop Experience

  • eWEEK; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jul 2, 2015 6:52 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux, Mint; Story Type: News Story
Linux Mint 17.2, code-named "Rafaela," was officially released on June 30 by Linux Mint founder Clement Lefebvre, providing users with an incremental update over the Linux Mint 17.1 release that debuted on Nov. 29, 2014. Linux Mint's focus is always on the desktop, and the 17.2 update aims to further improve the desktop user experience with additional polish and fine-tuning on both the Cinnamon and MATE desktops.

Ubuntu Linux Lands on Intel Compute Stick

  • ServerWatch.com; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jul 2, 2015 4:58 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu
Ubuntu Linux is widely deployed on desktops, servers and clouds around the world and now it's coming to Intel's Compute Stick platform too.

Mageia 5 Linux Distro Offers New Tools, Improved Stability

  • eWEEK; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jun 30, 2015 8:43 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Mageia, Mandriva
Helping users move from Microsoft's Windows operating system is also part of Mageia 5, which has a Windows settings import feature. eWEEK examines key highlights of the Mageia 5 Linux distribution release.

OpenDaylight Lithium Release Debuts VIDEO

  • EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jun 30, 2015 1:17 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Red Hat; Story Type: News Story
Chris Wright, Technical Director of SDN at Red Hat discusses the new OpenDaylight release.

Red Hat CEO Applies Open-Source Principles to Management VIDEO

  • Datamation; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Jun 29, 2015 9:29 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Red Hat; Story Type: Interview
When Jim Whitehurst set out to write his book The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance, he wasn't looking to define the open-source movement in the same way that Eric Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar defined open-source. Rather than define open-source as a development methodology, Whitehurst's focus is on open-source principles as applied to the domain of company management.

In a video interview, Whitehurst details what the motivation for the book is about, and why there won't be a new theory of management anytime soon.

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