This week’s open source news revolved mostly around the Linux Foundation and the two big events they were hosting: LinuxCon North America and (the first ever!) CloudOpen. From keynote coverage to new foundation members, Linux news was practically inescapable – we even published a live blog from the LinuxCon exhibit hall! To help you catch up, here are some Linux event highlights and other OSS news from the week:
- On Wired, Cade Metz covered the development of Facebook’s Prism project, which will allow them to run Hadoop across geographically separated data warehouses: “Facebook Tackles (Really) Big Data With ‘Project Prism’”
- “Enterprises See Growing Open Source Cloud Appeal,” was Jamie Yap’s ZDNet article on companies’ increased interest in open source cloud, largely caused by the maturing of OSS.
- On opensource.com, Ravindra Maurya’s blog shared why “Open source is not limited to software.”
- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reported on Jim Zemlin’s opening keynote at LinuxCon in the ZDNet article, “Apple, Microsoft, VMware: Everyone’s building open-source software.”
- Also discussing Zemlin’s keynote, Alex Williams’s TechCrunch article, “The State Of Linux — How Even Apple Is Going Open Source,” focused on how much open source the notoriously closed, Apple, uses.
- “What Users Want for the Cloud,” was Amanda McPherson’s Linux.com article on highlights from the IDC 2012 Cloud System Software Survey that were released for the first annual CloudOpen event.
- On Datamation, Sean Michael Kerner shared insights from a LinuxCon talk by Twitter’s open source manager, Chris Aniszcyzyk: “The Open Source Technology Behind Every Tweet.”
- Adrian Bridgwater blogged on ComputerWeekly about Marc Joffe’s new open source credit rating software called the Public Sector Credit Framework (PSCF): “Open Source Analysis to Save the European Sovereign Debt Crisis.”
Did you know you can even print your own open source game pieces now?
