Giants of the Open Source Community

This feature pays homage to individuals which, in our opinion, have made the most important contribution to the world of open source. It’s true that open source is collective power in action. The most important open source projects are frequently coded by a collection of experts, that build, share, and improve the software together, then make it available to everyone. But this does not diminish the importance of an individual’s contribution to the popularity of open source software. Without open source, many of the systems and applications we take for granted simply would not be around. All the key players in computing come from, or owe a huge creative debt to, the open-source community, and continue to rely on its talent and expertise when developing new products. The availability of free open source software has huge potential benefits, allowing users to share their collective experience to improve the software as its developed, as well as giving access to essential software to those who couldn’t otherwise afford it. Obviously limiting the selection to only 10 open source giants made for some really difficult decisions. There are so many others who play key contributions to the development of open source. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below.

Tilix brings powerful terminal emulation to Fedora

A couple of days after Fedora 26 was released on July 11, I began installing it on my herd of computers. Many of the improvements that Fedora 26 brings to the table are under the covers, such as improvements to the kernel and glibc. However, I noticed two updates right away.

Linux Mint 18.2 MATE and Ubuntu MATE 17.10

• [Video] Linux Mint 18.2 MATE Edition – See What’s New

  Linux Mint 18.2 MATE Edition has been released and announced by Linux Mint project, include the latest MATE Desktop 1.18 as default desktop environment. MATE 1.18 desktop environment is now based on the latest GTK+ 3 technologies. GTK+ 3.14 or latest is required to install MATE 1.18, which is no longer compatible with the GTK+ 2 series. All the included applications and components were successfully ported to GTK+ 3.

• [Video] What's New In Linux Mint 18.2

• Ubuntu MATE 17.10 (Artful) - Call for Testers

  Ubuntu MATE 17.10 is nearing Alpha 2, and we need as many people as possible playing with the new version and running into bugs so we can Squash them early!

• What video player should Ubuntu MATE 17.10 ship by default?

• Ubuntu MATE Is Asking Users to Vote on Its Default Video Player

  Which video player should Ubuntu MATE 17.10 ship by default? That’s precisely the question posed to users of the distro by its project lead Martin Wimpress, He’s launched a poll over on Google+ (because apparently people still use it) asking users to help him decide which media player should ship out of the box. Right now Ubuntu MATE ships with VLC by default.

Red Hat Financial News

• Risk Malaise Alert in Option Market: Red Hat Inc Implied Price Swing Hits A Depressed Level

• Could Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT) bite your fingers?

• Barings LLC Has $557000 Stake in Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT)

• Red Hat, Inc. (RHT) Shares Bought by Creative Planning

• Pine River Capital Management LP Raised Its Red Hat (RHT) Position, Surmodics Has 0.98 SentimentPine River Capital Management LP Raised Its Red Hat (RHT) Position, Surmodics Has 0.98 Sentiment