Since they print my picture with this column, I have little hope of concealing my age, so I’ll just come out and say that I remember Ronald Reagan’s first year in office in 1981 – in fact, I was already a young adult at that time and was living in Reagan’s home state of California, working my first professional job after college. Reagan became known as “the great communicator” for the hypnotic optimism with which he could render his own point of view. In a speech somewhere around that time, the new president made a comment that was something like “We have come a long way since before we knew we had a problem with racism.”

Partnership
• Red Hat and Dell combine for hard/software IT solutions
• Fedora 17 released
• News Bites

A little over a year ago, I wrote a column about a Nokia memo that appeared a little over a year ago. The famous “Burning Platform” memo made the case for Nokia bailing out of the open source MeeGo project as a last-ditch effort to save the company.

Some clever marketing people have started issuing USB drives loaded with their promotional information in lieu of the usual pamphlets and swag.

Cloud News
• CloudStack moves toApache
• Red Hat Data Grid 6 beta released
• News Bites

Kubuntu Sponsored
• Blue Systems sponsors Kubuntu
• IBM PowerLinux Solutions
• Spyrus Pocket Drive

Ubuntu News
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for desktop launched
• Ubuntu 12.10 flies with Quantal Quetzal
• Coverity 6.0 released

Red Hat Announces OpenShift Origin

OpenMAMA 2.1 Now Available

Tizen Association Releases Larkspur

Yocto Project 1.2 Released

LF Grows
• The Linux Foundation welcomes four new members
• Gnome 3.4 released
• News Bites

New Releases
• Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 2
• Vector Linux 7.0 Light
• Linux 3.3
• XBMC 11.0

Canonical’s MAAS
• Metal-as-a-service provisioning tool
• Knoppix 7.0 with kernel 3.2.4
• SUSE milestones

Tech Tools
• MythTV 0.25 out
• Android emulator improved
• Qt 5 Alpha source only release

Annual Future of Open Source Survey points out market opportunities.