Open Source trends in Software & Hardware

A brief history of free, open source software and its communities 

FOSS4G 

Open BOM

Open Source Initiative

Open Source movement 

Short History of Open Source 

The innovations of Open Source

Did Amazon just kill Open Source?

NASA's open access software library

The rise of the Open Source platform

Doubts surface in Open Source survey

How to fix the Internet of Broken Things

Open Source driving devops automation

Critical infrastructure goes Open Source

Overview of the Open Source movement

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation     

Licensing reform movement gathers steam

EU Open Source software project launches

'Community-based' Open Source on the rise

Open Source flaws found in security software

OSC releases Open Source HPC access portal

'API economy' gets boost with open spec initiative

'Open season on Open Source,'  supply chain suvey warns

Communities of communities: the next era of Open Source software 

Tech leaders launch OpenCAPI consortium and release new specification

The White House releases policy to help US government agencies go Open Source

Open Compute Project Foundation announces the OCP future technologies initiative   

HPC:

Risc V and PULP platform

ARM will be part of OpenHPC 1.2 Release

AMD promoting freedom of choice in HPC

HPC leadrers unite to develop Open Source framework

Quantun computing is real, and D-Wave just open-sourced it

ACCELERATORS:

OpenACC expands community, reveals roadmap details

Researchers navigate advantages and disadvantages of open source GPU technology for supercomputers 

DATABASES: 

SQL Server supports Linux

Kafka spawns open-sourced KarelDB

Apple's FoundationDB goes Open Source

2013 - the flourishing open source ecosystem

ArongoDB reaping fruits from multi-modal labor

AWS, others seen moving off Oracle databases

Postgre:

Postgre overview

PostgreSQL manual   

PostgreSQL website   

MySQL:

MySQL overview    

MySQL website   

MySQL manual   

OPERATING SYSTEMS:

Linux:    

Linux website

Linux overview     

Linux Foundation   

The Linux kernel archives

Microsoft's embrace of Linux draws ire

Linux Foundation open source hyperbvisor for IoT devices

What does IBM's acquisition of Red Hat mean for Open Source?

Estimating the total development cost of Linux Foundation's collaborative projects

Ubuntu:

Ubuntu

CLOUD OS:

Apache CloudStack   

GitHub/apache/cloudstack

What HP gains in Eucalyptus cloud deal

The Eucalyptus open source private cloud

Stack wars: OpenStack v. CloudStack v. Eucalyptus

OpenStack    What is OpenStack?    The Open Stack Foundation    In defense of OpenStack

Open Stack Newton seeks scale, easier deployment.   The progress of Open Stack in technical computing

SaaS (Software-as-a-Service):

Cloud backlash grows as open source gets less open

WORKFLOW:

Yahoo's new Pulsar: a Kafka competitor?

Yelp open souces data pipeline that saved it $10M

Banks, tech firms back open transaction framework

Altair to open source PBS Professional HPC technology

Open HPC pushes to prove its openness and value at SC'16

Univa contributes Universal Resources Broke to the Open Source community

HTML5:

Dive into HTML5

Details from W3C

HTML5 developers guide

HTML5 test - how well does your browser support HTML5?

WEBGL:

Helloracer demo

WebGL developers guide

WebGL overview and specifications

LANGUAGES:

Cavium joins OpenMP effort

Python eats into R as SAS dominance fades

NETWORKING:

AT&T networking code goes open source

Open SNAPI - enabling open, data-centric computing architectures

WORLD WIND:

NASA's World Wind

ANALYTICS:

Democratizing analytics

Dremio data preparation tools

Can Hadoop be simple again?

Charting a course out of the big data doldrums

The Linux Foundation announces big data platform for network annalytics

AI & MACHINE LEARNING:

Linux Foundation launches open AI effort

Databricks open sources MLflow to simplify machine learning cycle

DISASTER MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE:

Sahana EDEN

BIOMEDICAL SOFTWARE:

Open-source software tracks neural actvity in real-time

Open collaboration for farm and field data to advance sustainable food production

HARDWARE:

Open Power reboot

Proprietry versus open instruction sets

Microsoft releases cloud hardware specs

Open compute switches flood datacenters

IBM OpenPOWER to join Linux Foundation 

RISC-V startup aims to democratize custom silicon