1. Monitoring OpenStack Swift With Opsview
(Learn Linux/Linux How to and Tutorials)

This is a quick how-to for Opsview users who need to monitor an OpenStack (Essex) Swift installation. Monitoring OpenStack Swift With Opsview This is a quick how-to for Opsview users who ...

2. How to Bring More Women to Free and Open Source Software
(Featured Blogs/Libby Clark)

... talk about why there weren't more women in technology, though, believing the attention would only make things worse. That attitude has changed over time, however, as she experienced sexism more directly. ...

3. Red Hat's John Mark Walker: The Open Cloud Needs Open Storage
(Featured Blogs/Libby Clark)

... platform that's agile enough to support their data center's rapid growth.   Historically, compute was the sexy part of cloud computing, while storage was the backwater that nobody really cared ...

4. Enterprise Software Makeover: 4 Things To Borrow From Consumer Apps
(Software/Applications)

Long undervalued, Enterprise software businesses are now enjoying their day in the sun. On Wall Street, enterprise is the new sexy – but how did they manage to wrestle the spotlight from the consumers ...

5. Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian Calls Out 'Fellow Geeks' for Ostracizing, Sexist Behavior
(Enterprise Computing/Business News)

... after Adria Richards tweeted a picture of several men who made childish, sexual jokes behind her... Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has taken to his blog to call out "fellow geeks" — from tech ...

6. JBoss is Juicy, but Vert.x Could Bring Sexy Back to Red Hat
(DistributionCentral/Distribution News)

Seven years after Red Hat snatched JBoss out from under Larry Ellison’s nose, the enterprise Linux distributor is continuing to squeeze the juice from the open-source application server. Linux shop ...

7. The People Who Support Linux: SysAdmin Tony Atkinson Admits to a Luddite Streak
(Featured Blogs/Libby Clark)

... tablets. Tony Atkinson’s technical expertise runs deep as a Linux systems administrator for a telecommunications company in Essex, England. He works with the Asterisk PBX (private branch exchange) ...

8. With Ubuntu Server 12.10 OpenStack Users Can Stay on the Cutting Edge
(Enterprise Computing/Cloud Computing)

... run Essex on Ubuntu 12.04, but if they want to be more current with the latest technology, they can do that and pull down Folsom or even release candidates of future versions,” Baker explained. “A lot ...

9. Cisco Delivers Its Own OpenStack Distribution
(Enterprise Computing/Cloud Computing)

... services for the Essex and Folsom releases, along with installation scripts and other open source components to make it easier to install and run in production.  Not to be outdone by ...

10. Quotes from the Kernel Panel at LinuxCon in San Diego
(Featured Blogs/Amanda McPherson)

...  Sarah: "There are misconceptions about the kernel community. Younger people don’t see linux as sexy, but perhaps Android makes it more of interest. Some people have the misconception that we yell all ...

11. CloudOpen Keynote Q&A: OpenStack's Maffulli Says Open Cloud is New Frontier of Innovation
(Featured Blogs/Jennifer Cloer)

... Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu, in addition to emerging players like Piston and StackOps. We had more than 200 individuals from 55 different companies contribute to our latest software release, called Essex, ...

12. Dell Expands OpenStack Cloud Efforts, and Other Open Source Programs
(Enterprise Computing/Cloud Computing)

... is now available with additional server, networking and services options, and in additional regions including the U.K., Germany and China. Along with OpenStack Essex, customers can... This week PC ...

13. The ARM-Powered Cloud Comes To OpenStack
(Enterprise Computing/Cloud Computing)

... the choice to launch instances in two TryStack zones: an x86 zone running standard hardware and a new ARM-powered zone, both running the latest OpenStack Essex software release. And it ...

14. In Response to Jon 'maddog' Hall: Diversity is Everything in Linux
(Business of Open Source/Governance)

... want to stop reading now." And so begins Jon "maddog" Hall's beautiful, brilliant essay on being homosexual, and the terrible high price paid by LGBT people even today just for being who they are. Acceptance ...

15. Fedora 17 Enterprise Preview
(Learn Linux/Linux How to and Tutorials)

... Web Services. Fedora 17 includes Essex, the most current OpenStack release. Essex has a number of excellent new and improved goodies such as an improved, more integrated management dashboard, and the ...

16. Open Cloud Roundup: Top Stories of the Week
(Featured Blogs/Jennifer Cloer)

...  Joab Jackson reports on the release of Fedora 17, which includes a new version of the OpenStack platform. Code-named "Essex," Red Hat is expected to adopt it in future releases of RHEL. Microsoft to ...

17. Open Cloud Roundup: Top Stories of the Week
(Featured Blogs/Jennifer Cloer)

... in Big Data, but that's just the sexy, Silicon Valley way of articulating the shift toward information-driven businesses. Those businesses can only afford to be so information-driven, however, because ...

18. Why We Need to Keep Talking About Women in Tech
(Enterprise Computing/Business News)

The conversation about getting women into the tech industry is far from over, and unfortunately, vicious sexism is still alive and well. Don't get complacent, folks. It's still bad out there. [Read more]... ...

19. Piston Cloud, the Red Hat of OpenStack Cloud Computing?
(Featured Blogs/Libby Clark)

... 2011 and pentOS went general availability in January of this year. Our goal for the year is we’re going to have a great release of OpanStack Essex around the middle to the end of the third quarter. We ...

20. Weekend Project: Discover Linux Astronomy Tools
(Learn Linux/Linux How to and Tutorials)

... entries, such as SExtractor, and Montage. But don't worry if the high-end tools seem intimidating at first glance; there are "amateur" applications as well, such as uniMap (mentioned ...