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HP's The Machine, which promises to revolutionize computing through non-volatile memory, will also revolutionize the software world through an open source OS developed at universities.

The new libswarm API makes it easier to deploy Docker open source application containers across computer clusters.

Tesora has open sourced its database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform, the Tesora Database Virtualization Engine, for OpenStack cloud storage.

Eighteen German universities will deploy the ownCloud open source file syncing and sharing platform for building private clouds.

Version 7.0 of the open source operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which brings major updates for the cloud, virtualization, management and more, is out.

Rumor has it that Canonical may release an official variant of Ubuntu Linux based on the open source MATE interface, a fork of the GNOME 2 desktop environment.

Extreme Networks, Flextronics and Oracle have joined OpenDaylight, the open source software-defined networking (SDN) project hosted by the Linux Foundation.

The open source container virtualization platform, Docker, has released version 1.0 and announced enterprise support and system integrator offerings. Docker, the open source container virtualization platform, released software version 1.0, signaling that it is officially ready for prime time. And the Docker team has launched an enterprise support program and a system integrator initiative to accompany it.

Users of MapR's Hadoop distribution have a new officially supported extract/transform/load (ETL) solution. Through a partnership with Syncsort, enterprises can use the latter's ETL software to offload data into MapR's Hadoop Big Data platform.

Canonical, whose Ubuntu Linux is already the leading platform for OpenStack open source cloud deployments, has broadened its OpenStack portfolio yet further with the announcement of official support for Mirantis's OpenStack distribution.

Matthew Miller has become project leader of Fedora Linux, the open source operating system sponsored by Red Hat.

Cavium and Canonical have expanded their partnership to support ThunderX SoC solutions on Ubuntu Linux for OpenStack and the data center, which could open new doors for Ubuntu and open source on ARM64 devices, OpenStack cloud servers and other enterprise hardware.

Another Big Data analytics company has entered the open source realm. Guavus has become an official sponsor of the AMPLab, a research initiative hosted at the University of California at Berkeley to drive open source Big Data innovation.

Trifacta, which specializes in data transformation to help companies prepare data for analysis and interpretation, has secured $25 million in series C funding.

The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative has named Network Time Protocol, OpenSSL and OpenSSH as its first supported open source projects.

The upcoming end of support for Adobe Flash in the open source Chromium browser for Linux is actually a good thing for the Linux world.

Canonical's design team are working to build a more mobile-friendly version of the charm browser for the Ubuntu Linux Juju cloud orchestration service.

Valve's Steam platform now allows users to stream content from Windows PCs to OS X and Linux clients over the home network. Valve has lowered the barrier to operating-system interoperability even further with its Steam cloud-based gaming platform, which now allows users to stream Microsoft Windows PC games to Linux and Mac OS X. Finally, one can have one's alternative OS and play games on it, too.

Ubuntu developers are working to make it easy to port Android apps to Ubuntu, a vital part of Canonical's vision of building Ubuntu smartphones and tablets.

Jono Bacon, the longtime community manager for Ubuntu Linux, is leaving for a new job at XPRIZE this month.