Open Source Subnet

Sorriest technology companies of 2016

You won’t be sorry for spinning through our review of public apologies issued by tech organizations, from Microsoft to Apple to Facebook to Samsung, in 2016.

Bob Brown

By Bob Brown

Linux Foundation adds an open source networking specialist to the team

In recognition of the increasingly central role open source technology has played for the networking sector, the Linux Foundation today named Arpit Joshipura as its general manager for networking and orchestration.

Jon Gold

By Jon Gold

Apache Zeppelin open-source analytics startup reveals new name, fresh funding

The team behind the Apache Zeppelin open-source notebook for big data analytics visualization has renamed itself ZEPL and announced $4.1M in Series A funding.

Alpha Doggs

By Bob Brown

Linux hardening: a 15-step checklist for a secure Linux server

The negative career implications of choosing not to harden your Kali Linux host are severe, so I’ll share the necessary steps to make your Linux host secure, including how I use penetration testing and Kali Linux to get the...

Gus Khawaja

By Gus Khawaja

Microsoft embraces open source in the cloud and on-premises

Microsoft is positioning itself as the software vendor of choice for enterprises that maintain hybrid cloud environments, and it's opening its arms to Linux and open source software to do it.

Thor Olavsrud

By Thor Olavsrud

Pandora FMS wins open-source management shootout

Doing more with less remains an ongoing challenge for IT execs. Making sure everything keeps humming along to meet SLAs can be challenging for resource-stretched IT departments. For all but the smallest shops, effective...

Susan Perschke

By Susan Perschke

Six big projects that went open-source

Making big software and hardware projects open-source is an increasingly popular thing to do, whether you’re a big company, a small company, or even the government. Here’s a sampling of the latest major projects to hit the...

Jon Gold

By Jon Gold

The future of Drupal could be cooking in this lab

Acquia Labs has no illusions of making self-driving cars or shooting things into space like Google X, but the budding applied research arm of enterprise open-source Drupal provider Acquia does have designs on a slew of new...

Bob Brown

By Bob Brown

Celebrating 12 years of Ubuntu

Founder Mark Shuttleworth announced the first public release of Ubuntu – version 4.10, or “Warty Warthog” – on Oct. 20, 2004. The idea behind what would become the most recognizable and widely used Linux distributions ever...

Jon Gold

By Jon Gold

6 reasons to try Linux today

There's never been a better time to give Linux a try on your PC. Here's why.

Brad Chacos

By Brad Chacos