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VIDEO: Rackspace GM for Private Cloud Jim Curry and CTO John Engates discuss the origins of the open-source OpenStack platform and why they're still gunning for Amazon.

VIDEO: Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux, talks about what he learned in 2013 from crowdfunding and the wearable computing future.

Dreamhost has emerged in recent years to become one of the world's most popular shared hosting providers. The company is now expanding its lineup with new cloud compute and storage services, leveraging the open-source OpenStack platform serving as the foundation. Helping to fuel Dreamhost's expansion is a new $30 million round of financing.

Security once again is top of mind for the Firefox browser, and Firefox 27 will be the first browser from Mozilla to include default support for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 specification. TLS is a cornerstone Internet security technology that is the successor to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). TLS 1.2 was first defined in August 2008, offering security enhancements over prior versions of TLS and SSL.

RHEL 7 is based on the Fedora 19 community Linux release and the Linux 3.10 kernel, both of which first debuted in July. Red Hat has been hardening the Fedora 19 base over the last several months to ensure enterprise-grade stability, Ron Pacheco, senior manager of Platform Product Management at Red Hat, told eWEEK.

Although the cloud can be used for general computing purposes, a general-purpose operating system is not necessarily the best fit for the cloud. To that end, the Linux Foundation's Xen Collaborative project today announced the Mirage OS 1.0 cloud operating system.

VIDEO: Brian Stevens, CTO of Red Hat, talks about the next major release of Red Hat's flagship Linux operating system.

Red Hat updates the OpenShift Online service every month and releases OpenShift Enterprise three to four times per year, Badani said. One area that differs between the Enterprise and Online editions is the installation of the PaaS. The online service by definition does not require installation, while the on-premises version does require organizations to install the PaaS onto server hardware. As part of the OpenShift Enterprise 2.0 release, there is now a new wizard-driven installer that is available for enterprise users as well as the community OpenShift Origin release.

In this slide show, eWEEK takes a look at some of the new features in Linux Mint 16.

VIDEO: HP Distinguished Engineer Monty Taylor explains how the open-source OpenStack cloud platform is moving forward.

VIDEO: Ben Golub, CEO of Docker, explains what the open-source Docker container virtualization technology is about and how Docker is pushing it forward.

Hundreds of millions of users around the world freely benefit from Mozilla technologies, including Mozilla's open-source Firefox Web browser, but that doesn't mean Mozilla isn't making any money. Mozilla announced its 2012 earnings this week, reporting record revenue of $311 million. That figure is a far cry from where Mozilla started.

The openSUSE 13.1 Linux distribution officially became generally available Nov. 19, providing users of the open-source software with a number of new features. openSUSE is SUSE's community Linux project that then feeds into development of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server release. -

Red Hat's new enterprise Linux release debuts with new security, virtualization and time-keeping features. If the saying "time is money" is true, then the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (RHEL) release is very valuable. -

"We detected bugs earlier and our reports were more accurate thanks to the tool," Bethencourt said. "These improvements provided developers more time and OpenSUSEbetter information to fix the problems. "

VIDEO: Avi Kivity, developer of the open-source KVM hypervisor, explains how he got his code into the Linux kernel and why KVM is still popular.

SUSE last extended its support term length in 2011 for its SLES 10 release, offering a total of 10 years including the LTSS. Rival Linux vendor Red Hat has been providing its customers with 10 years of standard support since the beginning of 2012.

Brauckmann noted during his SUSECon address that SUSE now has more than 19,000 active customers with paid subscriptions to SUSE services, up from 15,000 a year ago. He added that in its last fiscal year, SUSE generated $230 million in revenue and is now a profitable company.

The general manager of Citrix's cloud efforts explains how his firm both supports and competes against the open-source OpenStack cloud.

VIDEO: Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, talks about where the open-source cloud is headed.

The fifth major milestone release in 2013 of the open-source Linux kernel is now available, providing users with improved file system performance. Linux creator Linus Torvalds also used the launch of the new Linux 3.12 kernel as an opportunity to talk about the future of kernel development.