Our mission here at OpenLogic is to promote healthy open source growth and adoption in enterprises, and it is very important to us for these endeavors to respect the open source communities. It has been about a year since we started collaborating with Microsoft to provide the CentOS image for Windows Azure. During that time, there have been the expected conversations concerning Microsoft and its relationship with open source.

Hollywood studios use GNU/Linux for making block-busters, but there is no professional grade film editing solution for the GNU/Linux desktop. Lightworks may be the first such solution. Editshare, the company behind Lightworks, has announced the first public beta of Linuxworks. Earlier an alpha was released to a limited audience.

After years of waiting, there is finally a publicly available beta of the Lightworks high-end non-linear video editing software...

While LLVM's Clang C/C++ compiler already has feature complete C++11 support and the developers have already been working on C++14 features, there are some open projects where the GCC alternative is in need of some assistance...