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• The 5 best Linux distros for the enterprise: Red Hat, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and more

  A variety of high-quality Linux distributions allow you to expand your Linux OS deployments beyond the data center. Here are five that fit the bill.

• Why Ansible is the future of Red Hat—and automated devops

  OpenShift gets all the attention, but the Ansible configuration automation for devops shows how to moving to the future seem boring

• Red Hat's Boltron snaps together a modular Linux server

  The Fedora Modular Server project experiments with a new way to deliver multiple versions of packages side-by-side, each with their own development lifecycles

• Linux at 25: How Linux changed the world

  A devoted practitioner offers an eyewitness account of the rise of Linux and the open source movement, plus analysis of where Linux is taking us now

• What’s behind the odd couple Microsoft-Red Hat partnership

  In a collaboration that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, Microsoft – the purveyor of the mainstream and proprietary Windows OS – has partnered with Red Hat, the champion of an enterprise-class iteration of Linux.

• Red Hat should double down on containers

  As Red Hat homes in on VMware, investing development resources in Kubernetes, Project Atomic, and other container-related efforts will pay off far more than propping up OpenStack

• Standards are coming for containers

  A list of leading cloud, storage and virtualization companies are backing a new effort named the Open Container Project, which aims to create a set of standards for the fast-growing technology.

• Big names like Google dominate open-source funding

  <em>Network World's</em> analysis of publicly listed sponsors of 36 prominent open-source non-profits and foundations reveals that the lion's share of financial support for open-source groups comes from a familiar set of names.

• Hiring managers advise job seekers to contribute to open-source projects

  Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals.

• The firm behind Healthcare.gov had top-notch credentials -- and it didn't help

  CGI Federal, the lead contractor at Healthcare.gov, is a veritable black belt in software development, with the highest possible certification from CMMI. So what does the website's flawed rollout say about how useful CMMI is?

• Cloud computing's big debt to NASA

  IBM's decision this week to base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish this open source platform as the standard in enterprises.

• How 10 Famous Technology Products Got Their Names

  Coming up with a great technology product or service is only half the battle these days. Creating a name for said product that is at once cool but not too cool or exclusionary, marketable to both early adopters and a broader audience, and, of course, isn't already in use and protected by various trademarks and copyright laws is difficult--to say the least.

• The challenge of managing mixed virtualized Linux, Windows networks

  The sprawl of management consoles, the proliferation of data they provide and the rising use of virtualization are adding challenges to corporations looking to more effectively manage mixed Linux, Windows and cloud environments.