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When IBM acquired Linux vendor Red Hat for $34 billion in 2019, Paul Cormier took the reins as Red Hat CEO. After three years, Cormier is now handing those reins over to a new leader.“When IBM acquired us three years ago, I thought for me personally, I’ve been here 21 years, maybe that was the right time, but there was a lot of unfinished business for me to complete,” Cormier said.

At the Open Source Summit event today, Torvalds discussed the state of Linux, in a fireside chat with his longtime friend Dirk Hohndel, who currently is the chief open-source officer at the Cardano Foundation. The conversation ranged from the state of open-source security, to new technology and the impact of the pandemic on Linux development.

In a full-day event at the Open Source Summit on June 20, supporters, leaders and contributors to OpenSSF discussed the current state of open-source security and detailed, at great length, multiple efforts underway to help improve the existing state of affairs.

The Ubuntu Core provides an optimized version of the open-source Ubuntu Linux operating system for smaller device footprints, using an approach that puts applications into containers. On June 15, Ubuntu Core 22 became generally available, providing users with new capabilities to help accelerate performance and lock down security.

The new Suse Enterprise Linux update also includes support for the latest AMD confidential computing capabilities. Suse is now also among the first enterprise Linux distributions to include open-source Nvidia GPU drivers, which will help to accelerate graphics and AI use cases on Linux systems.

Multiple vendors including AWS, Google, Kubecost, and SUSE have come together to support the open source OpenCost project for cloud-native cost management.

Cloud provider DigitalOcean brings open-source-based serverless capabilities to SMBs.

At the Open Source Software Security Summit II in Washington, D.C., OpenSSF announced an ambitious, multipronged plan with 10 key goals to better secure the entire open-source software ecosystem.

GitHub IT Operations and Management>DevOps GitHub Desktop 3.0 Improves DevOps Collaboration GitHub is making it easier for DevOps teams to stay up to date with code changes and requests via the updated GitHub Desktop 3.0 open-source tool.

The open-source Node.js 18 release provides long-term support for the popular JavaScript framework and new features to improve developer productivity.

Key updates to OpenStack Yoga include new hardware enablement features and better support for Kubernetes.

Open source Java continues to improve, with a focus in Java 18 on supporting new developers.

Open source is widely used by organizations for programming and development frameworks, and recent security concerns don't seem to be slowing adoption.

One of the original creators of the open source Apache Hudi project at Uber has launched a new company that is set to bring a managed service to market to operationalize cloud data lakes.

Rather than going with a public cloud provider, a division of the government of India went with Apache CloudStack to bring services to millions of citizens.

The Apache Log4j Project is among the most deployed pieces of open source software, providing logging capabilities for Java applications. There was a lot of media hype and misinformation about the project and a series of vulnerabilities in the open source technology at the end of 2021...

The latest release of open source Kafka data streaming technology brings a series of new features that provide users with usability improvements for real time data queries.

The open source technology moves beyond its roots to enable a full data platform as data moves from one source to another for operations, business intelligence and analytics.

Open source database vendor is improving on capabilities introduced in MongoDB 5.0, with an update that continues the company's push to support operational and analytics workloads.

An open source cloud data lake platform is finding adoption at large organizations including Uber, Walmart and Disney+ Hotstar as the demands of data scale grow.