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Both Red Hat and Canonical have free enterprise distributions: CentOS and Ubuntu respectively. Until last week, SUSE didn’t have any such offering — at least not officially. Everything changed with the arrival of Leap. Full article at the click below… http://www.itworld.com/article/3003168/linux/7-things-you-should-know-about-opensuse-leap.html

The wait is over and a new era begins for openSUSE releases. Contributors, friends and fans can now download the first Linux hybrid distro openSUSE Leap 42.1. Since the last release, exactly one year ago, openSUSE transformed its development process to create an entirely new type of hybrid Linux distribution called openSUSE Leap. Full article at the click below… https://news.opensuse.org/2015/11/04/opensuse-leap-42-1-becomes-first-hybrid-distribution/

Microsoft just inked a new deal with longtime rival Red Hat to support the company’s version of Linux on Microsoft’s cloud service Azure. Full article at the click below… http://www.wired.com/2015/11/microsoft-links-open-source-arms-with-linux-frenemy-red-hat/

The developers have finally managed to fix all the bugs The Red Hat developers have finally greenlit the launch of Fedora 23, and it looks like the new version will finally arrive on November 3, the date that was previously tracked. Full article at the click below… http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/fedora-23-reaches-gold-launches-on-november-3-495568.shtml

SUSE® has launched beta testing of SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6, giving customers an early look at the latest enterprise-ready technology for building Infrastructure-as-a-Service private clouds. Based on the OpenStack release Liberty, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 delivers high availability enhancements and non-disruptive upgrades along with Docker and IBM z Systems mainframe support to ease the transition of business-critical applications and data … Read More

My father got me a computer for graduation with 512MB RAM and a Pentium processor. It came with Windows XP, and I used it to do 2D animation with Adobe Flash. Back in those days, I was looking for my dream job as a 3D artist, and I’d often see job listings that said: “Linux knowledge required.” I had heard … Read More

If you’re a Linux or open source developer, Microsoft wants to work with you, and maybe even hire you. That was the message Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure, delivered at the All Things Open tech conference in Raleigh, N.C. on Tuesday. Full article at the click below… http://www.businessinsider.com/if-you-know-linux-microsoft-wants-you-2015-10

Karanbir Singh and Johnny Hughes have announced earlier today, October 20, on one of their Twitter accounts, that it’s been about 12 years since they first started working on the CentOS GNU/Linux operating system. If memory serves, the first CentOS release was published as version 2 sometime in May 2014, but most probably, the developers are celebrating the birth of … Read More

Today the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced a contract with Penguin Computing for a set of large-scale Open Compute HPC clusters.

Red Hat and Black Duck want to make sure that when you run a container, it’s really the container you want to run and not a rogue package. We love containers because they enable consistent operating environments for development, testing, and deployment.

The Linux Foundation recently put up a funny video showing what life might be like without Web search. It’s tagline was “A world without Linux is hard to imagine.” It also added, “A world without Linux would mean a world without the Internet.” Full article at the click below… http://www.zdnet.com/article/can-the-internet-exist-without-linux/?tag=nl.e539&s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61

IBM is gunning for a slice of Intel’s x86 server chip business with a new family of Power systems that run Linux and will be sold directly to customers over the Web. Full article at the click below.. http://www.networkworld.com/article/2990815/ibm-chases-intel-with-new-power-based-linux-servers-sold-over-the-web.html

It’s been more than five years since SUSE delivered a full release of its Enterprise Linux software, and a lot has happened to the company during that time. But in our testing we find that SUSE 12 has been worth the wait. Full article at the click below… http://www.networkworld.com/article/2868521/linux/suse-linux-12-challenges-red-hat.html

Apple is not renewing a contract with server virtualization software provider VMware, reports CRN — a move that could save the company millions of dollars. Full article at the click below… http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-dumps-vmware-esxi-for-kvm-2015-10

Akamai announced on Tuesday that its Security Intelligence Response Team has discovered a massive Linux-based botnet that’s reportedly capable of downing websites under a torrent of DDoS traffic exceeding 150 Gbps. The botnet spreads via a Trojan variant dubbed XOR DDoS. This malware infects Linux systems via embedded devices like network routers then brute forces SSH access. Once the malware … Read More