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“In just a few months since the Firefox Marketplace opened with the first Firefox OS launch, we’ve seen significant momentum with thousands of apps submitted and available today, including some that are currently exclusive to the Firefox Marketplace,” a Mozilla rep writes.

I’ve teased about Steam, speculated about Steam and even bragged about Steam finally coming to Linux. Valve recently announced SteamOS, which is a Linux-based operating system designed from the ground up to play games.

(NYSE:RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 5 expands Red Hat’s vision of providing an enterprise platform that has the stability to free IT to take on major infrastructure challenges and the flexibility to handle future requirements, with an extensive partner and support ecosystem.

eThekwini Municipality eThekwini Municipality opened and modernized its core systems by migrating them from z/OS to SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server for System z on the IBM z114 mainframe. The new applications offer improved functionality with the same great reliability and performance—and at significantly lower total cost of ownership. Software licenses are up to five times less costly, and the new … Read More

The November 2013 edition of the list of the world’s fastest supercomputers has just been released. Known as the TOP500 List, it is released twice a year, first in June, then in November. The TOP500 List began in June 1993, ran again in November of that year and has been repeated in that order since. The November 2013 edition is … Read More

Manage OpenStack, AWS, VMware, and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with CloudForms 3. With this new release of our cloud management platform, CloudForms adds enterprise-grade management capabilities for Red Hat Enterprise Linux® OpenStack® Platform and enhanced management for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Whether your cloud runs on VMware, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, AWS, or OpenStack, CloudForms gives you a consistent and unified framework for managing your private, public, and hybrid clouds.

From simple bookkeeping packages to full-blown ERP systems, open source software can provide free options for small businesses that don’t have the budget for big-ticket enterprise applications. Even if you want to stick with a closed source operating system (or, the case of OS X, partially closed source), your business can still take advantage of a vast amount of open source software. Is it possible, then, to run a business entirely on software that can be downloaded for free? There certainly are many options that make it possible — and many more that aren’t included in this guide.

Adrian Ionel, Mirantis CEO and President, stopped by to chat about how organizations are adopting cloud computing and how, in his vision, OpenStack is positioned to win over the others. Two different open source communities, Apache CloudStack and the OpenStack believe that their approach to building cloud-based applications will win.

The hobbies that inspired the scientific curiosity of my generation were Erector Sets, Science Fair Electronic Kits from Radio Shack and model rockets with balsa wood fins that we meticulously assembled and painted. While these toys piqued our curiosity in science and engineering, our ability to share our discoveries were limited by geography. These fascinating distractions were often purpose-built and … Read More

The platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution, dubbed the Boeing Edge, has been used to refocus the manufacturer’s attempts at connecting with its airline customers, Jim Crabbe, senior product manager at Boeing, told delegates at WSO2’s developers’ conference in San Francisco.

SOUTHFIELD, USA: Revved up by broad adoption among car makers, Linux is set to pass the competition and race to lead the automotive infotainment operating system (OS) market in 2020. Over the long term, Linux will take the lead in this burgeoning market, as auto manufacturers and their suppliers are attracted by the advantages of the OS.

 Linus Torvalds and Dirk Hohndel on stage at LinuxCon Europe in Edinburgh. Linux creator Linus Torvalds took the stage today at LinuxCon Europe in Edinburgh with Intel’s Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist Dirk Hohndel to discuss the present and future of Linux and answer questions from the community. They covered a range of topics including the upcoming 3.12 kernel … Read More

In a move that could be described by the cliché “better late than never,” it appears the U.S. Government has finally reached out to the experts to fix the beleaguered Healthcare.gov. Details are minimal at the moment, but CNBC broke the news via Twitter on Thursday shortly before Noon PDT that the Obama administration has tapped at least three Silicon … Read More

The company is out with a new initiative called On-Ramp to Enterprise OpenStack to drive enterprise adoption of the framework for building and managing private, public, and hybrid clouds. Red Hat is closely collaborating with Intel on the On-Ramp program, “educating customers on the benefits and capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform running on Intel Architecture.

Transform your virtual infrastructure into a private cloud Deploying a private cloud is a hot industry topic. You can use your existing investments in datacenter virtualization to build a private or hybrid cloud. But transforming your virtualized infrastructure into a private or hybrid cloud can be daunting. There’s a lot to consider, including: What virtual infrastructure should be used. How … Read More