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A Look Back at Linux For more than twenty years Linux has played a significant role in the computing industry—whether commercial users realize it or not. However, in 2013 Linux made a big splash in some important areas that are sure to influence the direction of the industry in the next few years. Read more to see how. |
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After Three Years, Is OpenStack Still on Track? There are many exciting new projects planned for the upcoming Icehouse release of OpenStack, but there are also some troubling developments as the project moves from being an incubated alternate cloud toolkit to a serious production-ready platform. Is OpenStack finally ready for prime time? |
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Will the Chinese Dominate OpenStack? Who could have guessed that Beijing is home to the largest pool of OpenStack developers in the world? The huge Chinese market has been all but invisible to outsiders until the Chinese OpenStack activities were highlighted at the November 2013 Havana Summit held in Hong Kong. |
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Best of Breed vs. Integrated Systems: The Battle Continues The debate between buying best of breed software products versus fully integrated systems has raged on for as long as there have been integrated platforms. There are pros and cons for each approach, but the interesting thing about this debate is that there is no clearly defined right or wrong. |
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November Security News Roundup In the following roundup of the latest security news, read how a team of researchers from North Carolina State University discovered security flaws in Google's Android OS and how seven popular open source applications and products contain vulnerabilities that hackers could potentially exploit. |
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Developers Get a Civics Lesson with Open Source Government Projects If you’re a civic-minded programmer who would like your government to be more open and more efficient, you now have the option to help make it happen. A recently launched portal called GitHub and Government lets users collaborate on projects to solve problems and make information more available. |
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Teen Creates Global Online Coding Competition for High Schoolers "I had an idea to create a competition for high school students around the world, like me, who want to create something but don’t have a place to do it.” That was the motivation for Ethan Eirinberg, the sixteen-year-old founder of the CreateHS coding competition, which emphasizes—yes—creativity. |
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Open Source Hardware Deserves as Much Press as Its Software Sibling If we all start talking about open source hardware (OSHW) just a little bit more, perhaps we can get it the attention it desperately deserves. Sure open source software is wonderful, but when coupled with OSHW, the boundaries of development truly cease to exist. |
