‘Servo’ engine will be made from scratch using the new ‘Rust’ programming language

Two open source giants collaborate on Big Data tools

Google has promised not to sue open source developers and distributors over a list of 10 patents related to MapReduce, implemented in Apache Hadoop amongst others

Enteprise investment in Linux has grown for the third consecutive year, with rapidly increasing adoption leading to fears of a skills shortage, according to the Linux Foundation

Hispalinux demands an investigation into the use of UEFI Secure Boot protocol in Windows 8

PayPal puts OpenStack virtualisation platform to virtualise 10,000 servers. Will the rest of eBay follow?

Chinese government looking to create a new OS for its people

Defense Distributed wants to destroy copyright, and dreams of a revolution

Rackspace's new OpenCenter dashboard fronting OpenStack-based software aims to ease deployment

Intel continues its big data move by offering its own Hadoop platform, optimised for Xeon server chips