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eWEEK: Google is doing more than just taking the upstream open-source Kubernetes project as is, to enable its GKE service.

For the first time in four years, the open-source WordPress project is delivering a major new milestone update that will change the way tens of millions of websites are designed and built.

ServerWatch: The modern container revolution started with Docker and its eponymous Docker Engine.

eSecurityPlanet: 500 million people are at risk because of a data breach at Marriott's Starwood hotel chain. What steps can your organization take to limit the risk of suffering the same fate?

eWEEK: Docker CEO Steve Singh, says the container pioneer is growing at a rapid pace and sees the IBM acquisition of Red Hat as an opportunity.

eWEEK: At Dockercon Europe 2018, Microsoft and Docker detail a new specification effort to help manage and deploy distributed applications, across both cloud and on-premises environments.

At Dockercon Europe 2018, Docker reaffirms its commitment to its own Swarm container orchestration, alongside Kubernetes.

eWEEK: While many developers have already embraced the community edition of Docker Desktop, the new Enterprise Desktop integrates additional tools and capabilities to help make it easier to build container applications.

eWEEK: The fourth release of the Kubernetes container orchestration platform in 2018, is highlighted by the general availability of kubeadm management and the Container Storage Interface (CSI) features.

Linus Torvalds: Hmm.. I'd like to say it was a normal week, but I'd be lying.

ServerWatch: New instances include custom Arm processor and new machine learning chip.

ServerWatch: AWS is now in the on-premises cloud service business.

The goal of cregit is to provide token-level blame for a software system whose history has been recorded using Git.

LinuxJournal: The bash man page is close to 40K words.

LinuxInsider: Today's Linux platform accommodates a number of really good financial applications that are more than capable of handling both personal and small-business accounting operations.

eSecurityPlanet: We examine 11 important cybersecurity research reports released in November -- and the controls organizations should consider.

eWEEK: Simply trusting that code taken from an upstream Github project repository is safe, is not a good practice for maintaining application security.

eWEEK: Amazon Web Services open-sources its new Firecracker lightweight hypervisor technology based on KVM, in an effort to help improve serverless security and performance.

Linus Torvalds: The patch stats this week look a little bit more normal than last time, probably simply because it's also a normal-sized rc4 rather than the unusually small rc3.

ServerWatch: Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation outlines some of the key features coming to the open source cloud platform in 2019.

eWEEK: Red Hat is now previewing the next version of its flagship Linux platform, which includes integrated container capabilities and a major boost in the amount of physical memory that a system can support.

ServerWatch: As OpenStack continues to evolve, the server management team and assets used are now changing as well.

OMGUbuntu: Deepin 15.8, the latest version of the Deepin Linux distribution, is now available to download.

LinuxInsider: The LF Deep Learning Foundation on Wednesday announced the availability of the first software from the Acumos AI Project.

eWEEK: The combination of Docker Enterprise and the Mulesoft Anypoint integration platform will enable organizations to more easily bring apps old and new into containers.

eWEEK: Red Hat announced its OpenStack Platform 14 update on Nov. 15, providing users of the open-source cloud platform with an incremental set of new features.

ServerWatch: At the OpenStack Summit in Berlin, Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth doubles-down on his firm's commitment to OpenStack.

eWEEK: The executive management team from the OpenStack Foundation outlines the open-source cloud project's new approach to helping to enable the cloud ecosystem.

ServerWatch: In a press and analyst session at the OpenStack Summit in Berlin, Germany on Nov. 13, Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation, outlined the four pilot projects that are currently in the new open infrastructure effort.

eWEEK: With its $34B acquisition by IBM set for 2019, things continue to move forward for Red Hat's Linux efforts.

eWEEK: While a lot of attention is paid to the big three public cloud providers, OpenStack is continuing to find a broad global audience.

While the U.S. now has the lead in terms of total performance, China actually has more system on the Top 500 list of supercomputers.

eWEEK VIDEO: Thomas Di Giacomo, CTO at SUSE, explains how the three major open-source cloud technologies intersect at his company.

LinuxInsider: What are you afraid off?

LinuxJournal: The goal here is to remove duplicate entries from the PATH variable

LinuxInsider: GalliumOS is a Chromebook-specific Linux variant. It lets you put a real Linux distro on a Chromebook.

Phoronix: Cinnamon 4.0 has been working on a number of performance improvements

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: New report from network performance monitoring vendor ThousandEyes reveals some networking differences between AWS, GCP and Azure.

eWEEK: Docker is adding support on its enterprise platform to help make it easier for Windows and Linux applications to migrate to containers.