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Richard Stallman, GNU and the Free Software Foundation have not always been as radical and averse to compromise as some supporters of open source software and the Linux kernel have contended.

A consideration of how differently the consumer PC software market may have turned out if GNU and the Free Software Foundation had built free/"open source" software to replace MS-DOS and Windows, rather than Unix.

Fedora 22, the open source, Linux-based operating system sponsored by Red Hat, was released this week in cloud, server and workstation "flavors."

Russia may soon adopt the Linux- and Mer-based SailFishOS as the basis for a home-grown mobile and smartphone operating system. Linux—or a form of it, at least—and other open source programs soon could be playing a bigger role in the mobile and tablet market in Russia. And it has concerns over spying by the NSA to thank.

Tensions between the free software/open source community and Apple date back to the 1980s, Linux's founder called the core of Mac OS X "a piece of crap" and other anecdotes from software history.

What is the relationship between free and open source software on the one hand, and "free culture," "open source culture" or "open society" on the other?

It is difficult to associate open source programmers and companies with what some writers have called "hacker culture" or "the hacker ethic." Instead, open source values, and projects such as Linux, can be traced to academia.

The newest versions of Red Hat's Developer Toolset and Software Collections 2 are out, bringing the latest stable open source software applications to the Red Hat developer and admin community.

Early Linux hackers were motivated by a desire to build a Unix-like operating system that would run on personal computers and not cost money. They were not worried about the sharing principles of open source programming.

Apache OpenOffice, the open source office productivity suite that was previously owned by Oracle, and from which LibreOffice is forked, currently has very few developers.

Version 0.6 of GNU HURD, the open source operating system kernel launched in the 1980s to build a Unix-like operating system, has been released.

Linus Torvalds and the early supporters of the Linux project were interested primarily in a free-as-in-beer operating system, not ensuring that source code would be freely accessible.

Nebula, which provided OpenStack-based private cloud solutions, has closed, suggesting that only more established companies will now succeed in the OpenStack market.

Linux Mint, the popular open source operating system, will continue to use Canonical's Ubuntu as the basis for its flagship Linux distribution for the foreseeable future.

Canonical and Ericsson have announced a partner deal that will bring Ubuntu Linux, in conjunction with OpenStack and OPNFV, to a new cloud platform for the telecom market.

SingleHop, which provides private cloud hosting, has added a disaster recovery service that it says delivers scalable, on-demand, cost-efficient data backup and recovery.

SingleHop has acquired Server Intellect, a major Microsoft Hyper-V hosting provider, to expand its cloud hosting offerings beyond the VMware niche.

Red Hat has introduced enhanced containerization features and better integration with Microsoft Windows services, among other features, with the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Atomic Host has been released as the open source company's main platform for running Linux containers via Docker.

PredictionIO has released its first suite for predictive data analysis, which is available for free under an open source license.