This was a big week for Linus Torvalds. He was awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for creating the Linux kernel (sharing the award with Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, a stem-cell development innovator). Dr. Ainomaija Haarla, president of the Technology Academy of Finland, said Torvalds’ work “has kept the Web open for the pursuit of knowledge and for the benefit of humanity—not simply for financial interests.” Not too shabby!
More Linus and open source news below:
- “US Navy Buys Linux to Guide Drone Fleet” was published on The Register by Iain Thomson about the US Navy contracting with Raytheon to install Linux software into its drones.
- Simon Phipps published, “Open and Humanitarian,” on his ComputerWorldUK blog, including a great video interview with one of the OpenRelief project founders, Shane Coughlan.
- On The H, DJ Walker-Morgan reported on the new Linux Training Scholarship Program: “Linux Foundation Launches 2012 Scholarship Program.”
- Matt Asay published, “For FORK’S Sake: GitHub Checks out Windows Client,” on The Register, discussing Github’s new Windows app.
- eWeek.com’s Nathan Eddy reported on Linus Torvalds winning the Millennium Technology Prize for creating the Linux Kernel: “Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Splits $1.5 Million Tech Prize.”
- Linus Torvalds was also featured in the first installment of Linux.com’s “30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Linus Torvalds,” by Jennifer Cloer.
- On ZDNet.net, Paula Rooney covered the VMware announcement of the open source Serengeti project: “VMware Launches Project Serengeti to Make Hadoop Virtual-aware.”
Even Judaism is now going open source! Check out the Open Siddur Project at opensiddur.org.
