Oregon Live: “Thousands of software developers will converge on Portland this week for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, or OSCON. The conference, one of the largest gatherings of its kind, runs Monday through Friday at the Oregon Convention Center.”

With all the hundreds of Linux distributions already available for practically every niche and purpose, users of the open source operating system are accustomed to having a wealth of choices. Recently, however, the set of options got even bigger thanks to a brand-new, security-focused Linux distribution from none other than the U.S. Department of Defense.

Linux Planet: Some ideas and debates on the Linux Planet and open source sphere just don’t seem to ever die or go away. One such debate is around contributor license agreements for open source projects, including Linux distributions.

Open source hacker community Gizmo For You is developing a Linux-based controller and separate receiver device to remotely control a model airplane or other vehicle.

TechCrunch: A decade ago, the open-source LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python) stack began to transform web startup economics…the same thing is now happening with Hadoop and Big Data.

IT World: “That’s right folks, another ten best! But this time I’ll wager you’re not familiar with any of them, or at best one or two.”

It’s hard to keep up with all the companies joining The Linux Foundation these days, but recently one jumped on board whose name threw a collective hush over the Linux blogosphere. Toyota, that is — none other than the planet’s largest automobile manufacturer in terms of both sales and production. Is there really anything else [...]

Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions, today announced it has joined the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and standardizing Linux by providing the resources and services needed for open source to compete with closed platforms.