There were a variety of different open source stories in the news this week. Companies, communities, foundations and projects were all topics of conversation. Here’s a sample of this week’s open source news:
- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols gave his review on the Cinnamon throwback to GNOME 2.x with his ZDNet blog, “Mint’s Cinnamon: The Future of the Linux Desktop? (Review).”
- Mr. Vaughan-Nichols also blogged about Red Hat’s decision to extend the lifecycle of RHEL’s 5 and 6: “Red Hat extends Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle to ten years.”
- Greg Kroah-Hartman joining the Linux Foundation was covered by Joab Jackson in his ComputerWorldUK article, “Linux Foundation hires kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman.”
- On SDTimes, Victoria Reitano wrote, “Mentors fuel growth for open-source communities,” about FOSS foundations that are creating programs to help foster developer community growth.
- Brian Proffitt reported on the impending official foundation status of The Document Foundation in his ITWorld article, “LibreOffice’s foundation just weeks away.”
- On Campus Technology, Dave Raths wrote, “Industry-Funded Software Research Goes Open Source,” about how companies, like Intel, are funding software research at universities.
- The H reported on the UK government’s new website, built mostly with open source: “The open source behind gov.uk revealed.”
- Julian Horsey’s article on Geeky Gadgets discussed details around the new open source tablet, Spark: “$265 Spark Linux Tablet Detailed And Launch Dates Revealed.”
For those of you who enjoy clever rap song remixes, do I have a treat for you?! If you <3 Drupal (and Kanye West), you’ll love “‘Drupal, Drupal, everybody Drupal’.” And if you’re as anxious excited about Sunday’s Super Bowl as I am, I have a couple of fun tunes to pump you up before the big game – We’re gonna turn Indy into “Pat City”, cause “We’re the Patriots and You Know It!” Go Pats! (Sorry Giants fans)
