7 Biggest Stories of the Week, January 4-8
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Ian Murdock, the founder of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system, was reported dead on December 30 at the age of 42. The open source community has since taken to the web to honor Murdock's legacy and recall his part in bridging the gap between the Free Software Foundation and the Linux kernel in the 90s.
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Google announced it plans to include OpenJDK in the next version of its Android operating system, meaning Android users will have official access to an open source version of the platform for the first time.
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The RetroBSD project announced it has successfully run the BSD operating system on modern embedded hardware, more than 20 years after the system emerged as a competitor to Unix in the 80s.
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Cisco recently completed its acquisition of Lancope, adding continuous visibility and traffic analysis to the company's network security portfolio.
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Amazon has lowered the price of its EC2 cloud hosting service in certain regions, including a 5 percent reduction in the cost of Linux cloud servers on several configurations.
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A group of open source hackers called fail0verflow has altered Sony's Playstation 4 hardware, giving it the ability to run Linux.
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Amazon WorkMail has entered general availability after the company unveiled its email and calendar platform last year.
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Amazon WorkMail has entered general availability after the company unveiled its email and calendar platform last year.
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With the holiday season behind us, the IT channel is back up and running this week, which means there were tons of great stories to sift through to get you ready for a happy and successful 2016. Check out some of the heaviest hitters on The VAR Guy for the week of January 4-8.
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