Have you bought all your Chistmas gifts? If you’re planning to give electronics, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) asks us to give some thought before buying something that could take more than it gives, since it requires, for example, to pay some license in order to use it.
They also advice us to avoid giving products with harsh rules about copying and sharing, or those which perform remote deletion of files without asking users.
Black Duck Software and North Bridge have unveiled their annual survey on the Future of Open Source. The results reflect an increasing adoption and highlight the great number of organizations which are contributing with the Open Source community.
The need for formal policies and management is growing as open source use becomes increasingly mainstream.
The Linux Foundation has launched a web series to bring awareness to the huge use of Linux in our everyday lives.
Under the title A world without Linux, these funny stories show the ubiquity of this technology while highlighting the importance of developers and supporting companies.
EMC keeps on moving towards Open Source. After open sourcing CoprHD project, announced at EMC World, they have just released RackHD under Apache 2.0 license.
In this way, this project can be improved by the community and vendors can include support for their infrastructure products.
KVM has made a place for itself among the industry’s most outstanding hypervisors for Linux. Currently, this hipervisor is deployed in a wide variety of processor architectures; even in mobile devices.
In addition, KVM is an important element in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), since it drives the networking software to hardware with high performance and low cost.
Top500.org has published one more time the list of the 500 world’s most powerful supercomputers. And once more, Linux is the operating system with the strongest presence in these machines.
98’8% of supercomputers run Linux, and the remaining 1,2% run Unix.
This list is published twice a year and the last six rankings had Tianhe-2 in the first position. This supercomputer was developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology
