Top 5 articles: Linux for your food, Tips for Docker users, and more

No readers like this yet.
Top 5 articles of the week on Opensource.com

By Urbanzenvia Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 / Modified by Jen Wike Huger

The race for Top 5 was tight this week on Opensource.com. Here's the best of the best from the site: November 17 - 21, 2014.

Top 5 articles of the week

#5. Opensource.com 2014 Gift Guide: 14 fabulous open source gifts for the holidays

Every year we hop around the web looking for some of the most fun, entertaining, and educational open source gadgets out there. Whether you're looking for something for a hobbyest, beginner, or the cool kid in your life, our 14 best gifts for the holidays have got you covered. We start our list with the latest Lulzbot 3D printer, the Taz 4 -- which you can also win in our Holiday Gift Giveaway starting in December, so stayed tuned for our announcement on Twitter and Facebook. Other gifts include, SparkFun's WeevilEye beginner soldering kit, Adafruit's wearable bracelet, and a BrewPi temperature controller. Have fun!

#4. Do I need OpenStack if I use Docker?

If you use Docker, you may have asked yourself by now if it makes sense to use OpenStack as well? Nati Shalom, founder and CTO at GigaSpaces and thought-leader in cloud and big data tech, pulls KVM into the equation as well and gives us this snapshot: OpenStack to overall manage your data center, KVM to for your multi-tenant compute resource management, and Docker containers as the application deployment package.

#3. 5 open source projects making the world better you should know

In this article Dave Neary tells us about five humanitarian projects that run on open source; five projects he says we should all know if we don't already. Why? Because they're changing the lives of those in need all over the world. Take for instance, Ushahidi, a project born out of upset in Kenya after the result of the presidential election in 2007; it allows people to anonymously report violent incidents. Similarly, Martus is another open source humanitarian project created to allow testimony from the community of human rights abuses. Check out the other three in this article.

#2. Linux for lettuce

Investigative journalist Lisa M. Hamilton uncovers the legal and emotional journey to "free the seed" of the the Open Source Seed Initiative to revolutionize American agribusiness from the ground up, one seed at a time. Simple questions, like "Can seeds be made open source?" beget tougher and greater questions of society like, "Do patents threaten food security and national security at large?" and "Should governments invest in public plant breeding?" Think of the labels we see on our foods, like "organic" and "fair trade"—could "open source" be next? Find out where the story ends, and in a sense begins, in this article from our Open Food Week series this week.

#1. Microsoft gets on board with open source

Writer and Google software engineer Luis Ibanez brings us the recap of the big news Microsoft broke late last week on it's move to open source .NET, the server side. This is a great article if you're not super familiar with .NET or want to get more behind the scenes on what exactly has been made available. Finally, Luis wraps up with information on the new .NET Foundation and what this move to open source by software giant Microsoft means for shifting power in the open source community.

Tags
User profile image.
Jen leads a team of community managers for the Digital Communities team at Red Hat. She lives in Raleigh with her husband and daughters, June and Jewel.

Comments are closed.

Creative Commons LicenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License.