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In terms of where the CII is allocating its money, Zemlin said that it has committed roughly half of the money it has raised so far to a variety of projects and efforts over a three-year period. In addition to OpenSSL and GnuPG, the CII is also providing support to OpenSSH, the Open Crypto Audit Project and Bash projects. More project funding news will be coming in the future, according to Zemlin.

The open-source OpenStack Foundation grew its' revenue based by 52 percent in 2014 over 2013. OpenStack Foundation 2014 revenue came in at $17.5 million.

The world's first Ubuntu Linux phone is now available, two years after the effort to bring Ubuntu to phones was first announced by Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux. The new Ubuntu phone is actually not new hardware; it's an Ubuntu Linux edition of the BQ Aquaris E4.5 device that is already in the market as an Android smartphone.

Though the open-source OpenStack cloud platform only has two major releases in any given year, each release is preceded by a steady cadence of increment milestone update. For the OpenStack Kilo release which should be generally on April 30, the second milestone update was announced on February 5.

4MLinux 11.0 Allinone and 4MRescueKit were released on Jan. 24, while 4MLinux 11.1 beta Allinone was released on Feb. 1. In this slide show, eWEEK examines the key features in the new 4MLinux 11.1 Allinone update. -

Ken Rugg, Founder and CEO of Tesora, discusses what's next for the Trove database project in the OpenStack cloud.

BackBox includes a command line interface wizard that provides users with options for enabling anonymous network traffic over Tor (The Onion Router), as well as masking a user's hostname. In this slide show, eWEEK takes a look at some of the features in the BackBox Linux 4.1 release.

The open-source OpenStack cloud community is now choosing the name for what will be the second platform release later this year. The Kilo release is set to debut in May ahead of the OpenStack Vancouver Summit.

VMware has been actively involved in the OpenStack community since at least 2012 and has been a leading contributor to multiple projects, including the OpenStack Neutron networking effort. With VIO, VMware is providing its customers with a full OpenStack cloud platform that integrates with existing VMware technologies, including vSphere server virtualization.

"We've now completed the VIO beta period and had really good feedback," Dan Wendlandt, director of product management for OpenStack at VMware, told eWEEK

While CoreOS doesn't currently see eye-to-eye with Docker, there is potential for detente.

"We would love to work together with Docker to help define the appc spec and ensure that as an industry we are making this composable independent building block of infrastructure," Brandon Phillips, CTO at CoreOS said. -

While some in the security community are chasing GHOSTs this week, there is another update that needs attention. The widely deployed Apache HTTP Server (httpd) is being updated to version 2.4.12 fixing at least four publicly identified CVEs.

The new structure is designed to ensure the scaling of the project, as it exponentially grows in terms of contributors, code contribution and its technology partner ecosystem," Steve Francia, the new chief operator of the Docker project, told eWEEK

Google pays out $88,500 in bug bounties, with the largest browser security update yet in 2015. In all, Google fixed 62 different security flaws.

There is no shortage of security-focused Linux distributions on the market, and among them is Pentoo Linux. While some security-focused Linux distributions concentrate on privacy, like Tails, others like Kali Linux and Pentoo focus on security research, providing tools that enable research and penetration testing.

Snappy, initially positioned as a technology for the cloud, is now being brought to embedded devices. "We identified some time ago that for mobile devices we really had to raise the bar on the reliability, efficiency and security of the update mechanisms, as well as the isolation of apps from one another," Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, told eWEEK.

The open-source Xen virtualization hypervisor project is out today with a major milestone update providing improved performance and enhanced security features. The Xen Project is managed as a Linux Foundation Collaboration project initiative and has multiple stakeholders, including Intel, Citrix, Amazon and Rackspace.

One of the great strengths of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux is its Juju orchestration technology, which is advancing now in a number of different ways.

The first Mozilla browser release of 2015 brings Firefox Marketplace and improved performance to desktop users.

The upcoming OpenShift 3 platform will mark yet another page in the continued evolution for Red Hat's PaaS effort that began with the acquisition of Makara in 2010. The big shift in the upcoming OpenShift 3 milestone is all about refocusing the PaaS around Docker.

Lead commercial backer of the GraphLab analytics open source project sets a course for the future.