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The article reports that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is hosting seven different open-source projects as part of a wider roster of initiatives that aim to facilitate cloud native applications. Topics covered include the OpenTracking project joining the CNCF in October 2016 to provide a cloud native approach to application tracing that can help improve performance and availability and the Linkerd service mesh project being added in January 2017.

The article evaluates the LibreOffice 5.1 open-source office suite from the Document Foundation; and outlines several features of the software.

The article reviews open-source tools OpenSUSE 42.2 based on SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) from SUSE Linux GmbH.

The article discusses the release of the GNOME 3.22 open-source desktop environment for multiple Linux distributions.

The article offers information on the LinuxCon North America conference held in the U.S. from August 22-25, 2016. Topics discussed include benefits of Linux operating system due to open-source technologies; declaring Linux as the most successful software project in history by Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation; and views of Red Hat chief executive officer (CEO) Jim Whitehurst on the uses of Linux.

The article presents information on the seven open-source projects the Linux Foundation is working on. The CORD (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter) Project deals with enabling network operators to manage their operations in a more seamless manner. The Open vSwitch effort officially became a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project on August 9, four years after the effort first was integrated into the Linux kernel.

The article discusses the highlights of the annual Red Hat Summit with the theme of harnessing the power of participation, held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California on June 28-30, 2016. Topics tackled at the summit presentations are the history of innovation, open-source platform for data analytics, and open-source models of innovation for space. Product and project launches at the event include the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7 and MicroProfile Project.

The article announces the 2016 launch of Fedora 24 operating system in desktop, cloud and server editions that has new open-source capabilities and is developed by software company Red Hat's community Linux distribution.

The article discusses the update to the GNOME open-source desktop environment GNOME 3.20, code-named Delhi, and its new features. It includes providing shortcuts to the Linux desktop that provide users with a list of keyboard shortcuts to perform actions in an application, being able to perform a full system update with the software application, and an improvement in the Polari Internet Relay Chat (IRC) which makes it faster to join a chatroom coupled with new image sharing capabilities.

The article evaluates the LibreOffice 5.1 enterprise application from the Document Foundation (TDF).

The article offers brief information on the OpenStack, open-source cloud-computing software platform, from OpenStack.

The article focuses on the Red Hat Summit, conventions hosted by Red Hat, software company providing open-source software products, held in Boston, Massachusetts, in June 2015. Topics discussed include emphasis on the value of open-source technology by Red Hat's chief executive officer (CEO) Jim Whitehurst, launch of the System Z mainframe operating systems from International Business Machines (IBM), and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (RHEL 7.2) Roadmap.

The article discusses the use of K Desktop Environment (KDE) by users of Linux and Unix operating systems, and the development of the KDE Plasma 5. Topics covered include the special features of the KDE Plasma 5, the development of the KDE desktop environment as an open-source project, and the different desktop effects and desktop setting options for the KDE. It also discusses the features of the Dolphin file manager inside of the KDE 5.

The article reports on a user survey conducted by U.S.-based open source cloud platform OpenStack on open space deployments around the world. Findings include the facts that the U.S. is the top country for deployments, that OpenStack users run different OpenStack releases without always updating to the latest version and that the Ubuntu Linux operating system is the top choice for OpenStack clouds in production followed by Puppet as the leading deployment tool and Grizzly.

The article reports that the OpenStack Foundation has officially launched the OpenStack Icehouse cloud on April 17, 2014. The open source software was a joint project by open cloud company Rackspace and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The software is supported by the world's leading technical companies like International Business Machines (IBM), Hewlett Packard (HP), and Intel. Software firm Red Hat is said to be the lead contributing company for the software.

The article offers information on the openSUSE 13.1 Linux distribution open source software.

The article discusses highlights on the series of innovations for Amazon Web Services (AWS) detailed at Amazon's re: Invent conference held in November 2013. The CloudTrail service that logs API calls, the AppStream interactive cloud-powered streaming service, and the addition of global secondary indexes in its DynamoDB NoSQL database are mentioned. Announcements such as the expansion of 30 new Test Drive applications options and the support for the open-source PostgreSQL database are cited.