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The Linux Foundation and edX have partnered to develop a massive open online course (MOOC) titled, "Introduction to Linux," to provide free training in open source software.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now available in the Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US) Region, where government agencies can deploy it to meet compliance and regulatory standards.

Intel purchased smartwatch maker Basis earlier this week for more than $100 million, according to several reports. News of the new acquisition led to some interesting speculation on Intel's possible role in the future of wearable devices.

Ubuntu 14.04 beta 1 brings some changes to GNOME, but the big focus is on maintaining the status quo for this long-term support release.

The open source Internet of Everything, container virtualization and KVM and OpenStack integration top the list of events at the upcoming Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit.

If Microsoft promotes dual-boot smart phones with Windows and Android, will customers come running? Or is this similar to IBM's failed OS/2-Windows dual boot strategy from the 1990s?

VMware has extended its partnership with Google by connecting Google Chromebooks with VMware's DaaS offering

Seven new organizations have joined the Linux Foundation to help support the Open Virtualization Alliance, which promotes cloud virtualization based on the open source KVM hypervisor.

Docker's open source container strategy may allow partners to move customer applications between on-premises and cloud servers. But where are the partners? Roger Egan is recruiting them now.

Just how popular is enterprise open source software? Popular enough, it seems, to power web servers in locations as unlikely as North Korea. That's where Red Hat (RHT) Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and derivatives of it, are running the few public web servers that exist in the country. Who knew?

Dell and Cumulus Networks have announced a reseller partnership to deliver the open source Cumulus Linux operating system on Dell network switches.

The upcoming OpenDaylight Summit shows the momentum of software-defined networking (SDN) and where this open source project is headed.

The Ubuntu Linux team hopes to expand the open source operating system's application stack by drawing on community contributions of smartphone and tablet apps.

A strategic Google-Synnex relationship will help business partners to deploy and centrally manage fleets of Chromebooks within schools and vertical market settings. The move comes only a few weeks after the search giant further enhanced its Google Apps partner program for resellers.

Red Hat (RHT) made its name as a leading open source vendor by selling and supporting enterprise Linux. But it needs to move beyond the Linux space to remain competitive in the age of the cloud, and in a sign of efforts to do so, the company has started the new year with two executive appointments that will strengthen its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and cloud expertise.

Google Compute Platform and Amazon Web Services (AWS) executives will address Red Hat channel partners, seeking to shift customer workloads into their respective clouds.

Overall, Red Hat had a strong 2013, but the company needs to further accelerate its momentum beyond Linux. Yes, Red Hat Storage, OpenStack, KVM (kernel-based virtual machine) and other technologies are off to promising starts. But Red Hat needs partners to engage its Open Hybrid Cloud strategy. Here's a conference preview.

Open Invention Network is extending is Linux-protective network to include OpenStack and other cloud computing technologies. For cloud services providers (CSPs), the move could foster more Linux innovations and code sharing.

Can you guess what the biggest problem facing Windows is? It's probably not what you think it is.

Is Cisco Systems ready to battle the NSA over cloud and enterprise IT spying activities? An article in Der Spiegel provided details on how the National Security Agency (NSA) Tailored Access Operations (TAO) has exploited the weaknesses of IT products. Mentioned in the article is Cisco Systems, which is now "deeply concerned" about the impact on customers' networks.