Fedora Globalization (G11n) Activity Day – November 2015

We already had a number of blog posts regarding how Globalization (G11n) Fedora Activity Days (FADs) went. After all of these reports, it makes sense to have one post discussing the achievements from our Activity Days.

Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Xfce Beta Out for Testing, Linux Kernel 4.2 Supported

Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” KDE Edition Up to Beta State, Ships with KDE 4.14

Michal Hrušecký: openSUSE Summit Asia 2015

Last year first ever openSUSE Summit Asia took place in Beijing. From all the reports it sounded really awesome and I regretted that I couldn’t go. This year, I was lucky enough to manage to go. I was selected to do a board keynote and I got some of my travel expenses sponsored by Travel Support Programme (big thanks!). So how was this years openSUSE Summit Asia from my point of view? In short, amazing In long, read on…

On the OpenStack Scene, Get Credentials to Get Hired

As part of its efforts to grow the OpenStack talent pool and global community, the OpenStack Foundation has announced a new professional certification program that is meant to provide a baseline assessment of knowledge and be accessible to OpenStack professionals around the world. Some of the first steps in advancing the program are taking place now, and other companies are also advancing OpenStack certification plans. Here is a sampling of the educational opportunities.

Microsoft Adds CodeView Library To LLVM

Special edition: Top news of 2015 in open source

Switzerland Wants a Single, Universal Phone Charger by 2017

Apple’s Lightning cable cartel be damned: Switzerland is moving forward with a plan for a single, universal phone charger across the country, standardizing phone chargers across the board. While the exact standard hasn’t been mentioned yet, it wouldn’t be hard to guess the standard: Micro USB, used across phone platforms, most especially Android, which has a gigantic chunk of the cell phone market worldwide.

2015 wasn't about AWS. It was about everybody getting ready to try to beat AWS

One star eclipsed all others in the enterprise in 2015: Amazon. Or, rather, its cloud division, AWS.

It somehow became a given that AWS leads in Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas), with the one-time ebook shop now a major IT infrastructure provider.

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