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Open source programming and DevOps skills are in high demand among hiring managers, and cloud computing outpaces containers and networking in popularity.

Open source code security and stability will be certified through "Best Practices Badges" from the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative.

An explanation of NoSQL databases such as open source MongoDB, Cassandra and Redis, and how they compare to relational databases such as MySQL.

The history of the modern Internet of Things (IoT) dates back to the 1990s, yet IoT has evolved hugely since then, thanks especially to the cloud.

Analysis of today's top 50 open source companies; their cloud, virtualization, data analytics and IoT products; and how they've evolved since 2008.

Dell Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Version 5 adds an enterprise-focused, integrated open source cloud offering that expands channel momentum between Dell, Red Hat and Intel.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Canonical's latest open source, Linux-based OS, adds key new features, including LXD containers, snap packages and new scale-out cloud storage.

A summary of Richard Stallman's thoughts on free software, open source, GNU, Linux, terrorism, cell phones and French politics, based on a recent talk near Paris.

A primer explaining LXC and LXD, open source container platforms developed largely by Canonical, as well as how they compare to Docker and CoreOS rkt.

Cumulus Networks, Dell and Red Hat highlight open source DevOps and SDN efficiencies through an OpenStack cluster built with Linux and open source software.

OpenStack Mitaka, released April 7, brings new usability enhancements to the open source cloud-computing platform, which should increase OpenStack adoption.

In February 2016, Microsoft announced that it was bringing Red Hat Enterprise Linux -- the flagship product of Microsoft's biggest open source competitor -- to its Azure cloud as a new OS option. It had good reason to think the move would please customers, since Microsoft also reported at the time that 60 percent of the Azure images were Linux-based even before RHEL became an option.

A survey from Datas IO shows on-premise or private-cloud distributed databases like MongoDB beating public cloud alternatives as NoSQL database adoption continues.

What's good about open source software, what are its limits and how should it be used in government? These are issues that the public is now debating vigorously in a new forum created by the U.S. government following its recent push to make more government-owned code open. Open source software's use in government is the subject of an ongoing debate on GitHub, spawned by a federal proposal to promote open source software for U.S. agencies.

MJ Technology envisions a 64-bit, x86-compatible tablet that can run Ubuntu and other open source Linux-based operating systems. Could it work?

Quali is open-sourcing plugins for its cloud sandbox platform and releasing new Python libraries designed for DevOps teams.

Red Hat and SanDisk have partnered to bring Ceph, the open source distributed storage platform for clusters and the cloud, to the enterprise.

The TODO Group, an industry collaboration around open source software for corporations, has become a Linux Foundation project.

Microsoft and Canonical have partnered to bring Ubuntu Linux apps to Windows via the Windows Subsystem on Linux. (No, it's not open source.)

The Linux Foundation has partnered with Blacks in Technology and Kids on Computers to increase access to Linux and open source software. The open source space remains a privileged place, but the Linux Foundation hopes to add demographic diversity by partnering with two community groups, Blacks in Technology and Kids on Computers.