Every week, we tally the numbers and listen to the buzz to bring you the best of last week's open source news and stories on Opensource.com, this week October 27 - 31, 2014.
Top 5 articles of the week
5. What software defined storage means for OpenStack
David Hurley interviews Sage Weil, founder and chief architect of Ceph. Sage tells David in this interview that he "started working on Ceph in 2004 as a way to solve the file system metadata scaling challenges for supercomputers,” Fast forward to 2012, he and his team started Inktank to productize Ceph and earlier this year joined Red Hat.
Speaking of OpenStack Summit, our very own Jason Baker, the OpenStack editor at Opensource.com, will be in Paris attending the conference from November 3-7.
4. Linux computer program brings a smile where it's least expected
Ken Starks is the founder of a non-profit organization known as Reglue that helps bring Linux computers to kids for free who need them. To hear Ken tell it, these kids start out disadvantaged, without enough money to own a laptop or computer, and wind up advantaged because they are learning how to use Linux when many other kids are not. This story will bring a tear to your eye when you hear about Ricky, an autistic kid who had an amazing response to his new laptop.
Ken is also a writer for the online publication FOSS Force and has a blog where you can read about the work he's doing to spread FOSS far and wide.
3. Iron Man costume made on the shoulders of giants
Jason Hibbets, the Open Sourcerer, scored this great interview with Jeremy Hansen, software engineer and web developer at Red Hat about how he made his Iron Man costume, for last year's Red Hat Halloween contest. We dive into the costume play, or cosplay, world for a bit. Check out the article for those details, and be sure to watch the video at the end of the post.
2. Has the time come to rebrand open source?
Robert Lindh is the CEO of a web design firm specializing in TYPO3, an open source content management solution, and is very often asked about the safety and stability of open source. He thought we were past these myths but thinks we might not be. Is there a solution? Can open source be better branded? See what name change Robert suggests and join the ongoing and lively discussion on the site.
1. Test drive Linux with nothing but a flash drive
Scott Nesbitt gives readers a cool way to test drive Linux... by creating a live USB. It’s a USB flash drive that contains an operating system that can start from the flash drive. He says it doesn’t take much technical ability to create one and gives readers a how-to in this article.
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