The Luminosity of Free Software, Episode 11
Channel: Aaron Seigo
Date: 2013-04-25

Riak: a distributed key/value data store inspired by the CAP theorem that strives for eventual consistency rather than ACID. 

FLP paper: http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/arvind/cs425/doc/fischer.pdf
Brewer's CAP conjecture: http://lpd.epfl.ch/sgilbert/pubs/BrewersConjecture-SigAct.pdf
Cluster-based Scalable Network Services paper: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~brewer/papers/TACC-sosp.pdf

Little Boxes: We all know how fun the Raspberry PI is and the utility one can get out of an Arduino. What would be possible with higher-spec devices? Let me know in the comments below!

Klyde: An attempt to produce a light-weight configuration and packaging profile for KDE's Plasma Desktop by SUSE developers. 

Work-in-progress SUSE Studio image: http://susestudio.com/a/pRvzFf/minimal-klyde

Q&A: Spotify, sanboxed apps on Linux, web browsers written in Qt and more!