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News from Red Hat might have some development organizations panting. The company in mid-April unveiled a release candidate of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 with support for Docker, the open source container framework for deploying applications on virtually any platform.

Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu creator and CEO of parent company Canonical, has invited developers to put their money where their mouth is. The company Monday announced the launch of a crowdfunding project to develop Ubuntu Edge, a super high-tech phone that's powerful enough to double as a desktop PC and incorporates bleeding-edge screen and battery tech most people probably haven't even heard of yet.

In an effort to develop a set of standardized interfaces for programatically controlling networking gear regardless of brand and without access to the physical hardware, The Linux Foundation, in conjunction with other industry heavyweights, Monday took the wraps off OpenDaylight Project.

Red Hat this week unveiled JBoss Data Grid 6.1, an update to its in-memory database, with significant new functionality for high availability and disaster recovery. Its first update in nearly a year, Red Hat's database for large-scale enterprise applications now supports data-center replication across geographically dispersed clusters as well as the ability to perform rolling upgrades without interrupting service.

Executes from ARM and Hewlett-Packard held a virtual round table yesterday with high-level members of the open source Linux community to discuss the future of ARM-based servers in the data center.

Intel is going all-in on embedded Linux development. The company this week released the Intel System Studio, an all-new development suite that includes profilers, debuggers, code analysis tools and optimized compilers for Linux apps destined for hardware built with Intel-based SoCs as well as the company's Atom, Core and Xeon processors.

Purpose-built Linux distros are appearing faster than zombies in a first-person shooter. This article looks at a few good ones.