Linux Weekly NewsBytes : 1421

This is my first Linux Weekly NewsBytes post. You will find here the latest, most happening events and news items from the Linux World. Keep reading to find out what's making the most noise around Linux

Linus Torvalds [ the man who created Linux ] awarded Computer Pioneer Award by IEEE Computer Society

• The press release by IEEE Computer Society mentions that "Computer Pioneer Award" of 2014 was presented to Linus Torvalds, the man who created Linux. I see this as a recognition of his new approach to create software using open source culture. It actually show cases to the world the real way of creating software. Collaborative and free for anyone to contribute.

Munich City Council migrates 15,000 workers from Windows to Linux

• This is one news that I loved reading the most this week. It is a great success story that has a great potential to be replicated. And India is certainly the biggest market for such a migration. This initiative was called : LiMux [ Linux in Munich ]. The detailed information in the article shows that it takes a lot of time [ almost 10 years for Munich ] and some real hard Political backing for such a thing to happen. Interestingly enough the deciding factor for this was not Money !!! It was rather a concern for security and a willingness of the Government to promote local companies. They decided that it was much better to send the money to local companies instead of sending it overseas :-)

Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS released

• This is the first Ubuntu release that I downloaded and I am still trying it out. I will update more on my learnings from this in some other articles later. Its server image boasts of coming loaded with the latest OpenStack release. This seems to be a good strategy of Ubuntu to move into the Enterprise audience.

[ Since this is my first ever newsletter about Linux, I took the liberty to pick from articles that are earlier to the previous week as well. ]