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At long last, OpenStack (now known as OpenInfra Foundation) joins Linux Foundation

Network World

After more than a decade as an independent open-source foundation, the OpenStack project is joining theLinux Foundation in a move aimed at accelerating collaboration across the open infrastructure ecosystem. Fifteen years ago, Rackspace got together with NASA and created the open-source OpenStack project.

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Linux in your car: Red Hat’s milestone collaboration with exida

Network World

Red Hat today announced the Linux math library (libm.so While it may not be obvious to all of us, Linux is playing an increasingly important role in the automotive industry. In fact, even the car you’re driving today could be using Linux in some capacity. Why open source? This isn’t a new idea.

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10 essential Linux tools for network and security pros

Network World

Picking just 10 Linux open source security tools isn’t easy, especially when network professionals and security experts have dozens if not several hundred tools available to them. There are different sets of tools for just about every task—network tunneling, sniffing, scanning, mapping.

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What is SONiC and how can enterprises try the open-source NOS?

Network World

Interest in the open-source network operating system SONiC is rising as major networking vendors and start-ups look to offer resources to help enterprises give SONiC a try. The Linux-based NOS was created by Microsoft for its Azure data centers and then open-sourced by Microsoft in 2017. What is SONiC?

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Meta offers Llama AI to US government for national security

CIO Business Intelligence

The move relaxes Meta’s acceptable use policy restricting what others can do with the large language models it develops, and brings Llama ever so slightly closer to the generally accepted definition of open-source AI. The CIO’s role in these enterprises is among the toughest, as it involves issues of privacy, security, and criticality.

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SAP publishes open source manifesto

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s an open secret that even proprietary software contains open source components these days, and major vendors are, to varying extents, supporting or participating in open source projects. SAP’s manifesto is in reaction to the fact that all is not always sunshine and roses in the open source world.

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5 reasons why 2025 will be the year of OpenTelemetry

Network World

Some open-source projects are spectacularly successful and become standard components of the IT infrastructure. Take Linux or Kubernetes, for example. OpenTelemetry, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is building momentum and is on track to become another open-source success story.