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Revolt of the Redis Maintainers: New Redis Clone, Valkey, Has Linux Foundation Support

Another fork of Redis has arrived, and this one might end up making the Redis suits wish they had never even considered abandoning open-source. It has the support of The Linux Foundation, big tech, and many of the project’s long-time contributors.
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Redis Goes From Open-Source to Fauxpen and the Forks Have Already Started

Redis is only the last in a line of companies that have lately dropped open-source licenses in favor of proprietary open-source lookalike licenses. In this case, a fork has already happened that just might end up being real competition for Redis.
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Why Acorn Labs Turned on a Dime and Shifted From Kubernetes to AI

A few weeks ago the Kubernetes helper SaaS platform Acorn Runtime was happily in beta, and was set to go GA in the near future. Now, the platform is in mothballs and Acorn Labs is betting its future on GPTScript, a scripting language for generative AI….

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Doordash Does a Thing for Safety and Wants Credit for Doing What Should Be Expected

DoorDash thinks we’re supposed to be impressed that it’s working to keep its drivers safe. We ask, isn’t that just what they should be expected to do? We have a suggestion about something they should do if they really want to impress us with their effo…

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MariaDB’s Financial Worries Go From Bad to Worse

During the last week or so, financially strapped MariaDB has announced that it’s laying off 28% of its workforce and that it’s shutting down two popular projects that are used by enterprise customers.
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Red Hat’s Ex, Jim Whitehurst, Is Now Temporary CEO at Unity Software

Three-and-a-half years after handing over the reins at Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst has the job he likes best again, although only temporarily. It’s been no…
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Roundup: War’s Effect on Gaza Tech, Microsoft’s Howto for Installing Linux; California’s Right to Repair Law, and More

This week FOSS News Roundup also includes a list of some goodies coming to KDE Plasma 6.
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Consequence of Ottawa’s Link Tax Dampens News on Canadian Wildfires

Canadians in wildfire ravaged areas can’t swap important and potentially life saving news stories on Facebook as a result of the country’s recently passed news link law.
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FOSS Week in Review: Happy Sysadmin Day, SEC’s New Cyber Attack Rules, and Musk Steals User Handle

Be nice to your SysAdmin, SEC makes rules for reporting cyber attacks, and Musk purloins a user’s $40,000 Twitter X handle.
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SUSE Promises to Fork RHEL and Make It Publicly Available

As Red Hat’s reputation as an example to the corporate world on how to do open-source right fades, will SUSE’s new CEO, Kirk-Peter van Leeuwen, pick up the mantle?
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MariaDB’s Stock Exchange Woes For Dummies

The New York Stock Exchange doesn’t like it when your stock dips below a dollar.
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Will New CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen Bring ‘Open Source Way’ Magic to SUSE?

As Red Hat slowly loses its open culture under IBM’s ownership, SUSE might be set to finally become an important global open-source player, but only if its board allows the former Red Hatter who will take the helm on May 2 to bring “the open source way…

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Nextcloud Gaining Regulatory Upper Hand Over Microsoft and Google in Germany and the EU

Nextcloud announced on Wednesday that it now has a SharePoint replacement ready for production use, and that Deutsche Telekom has made Nextcloud Office available to the users of MagentaCLOUD.
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3-Years After Red Hat, Is Jim Whitehurst Still the ‘Open-Source Way’ Guy?

At an online media event held in early February, Red Hat’s former CEO talked about investing, open source, open governance, and of course, Red Hat.
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LibreOffice Calc: Pivot Table Made Easy

This tutorial will show you how to create Pivot Table using LibreOffice Calc — the complete, free spreadsheet program for everyone. We will learn with examples and pictures by using a simple sales table to create sales report with multiple pivot tab…

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LibreOffice Writer: Mail Merge Made Easy

This tutorial will help you to create mail merge with LibreOffice explained step by step with pictures and examples. Mail merge is a method of making stuffs consisted of multiple personalized copies like official letters, invitations, envelops, ident…

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Businesses Should Dump Windows for the Linux Desktop

If you care about security, then Linux should be your business desktop.
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Exploring The Immense Benefits Of A Hybrid Workplace

Whether you are an employee or employer, you’ve likely noticed some changes in the workplace as of recent. Maybe you’ve been the one to implement these changes. Maybe you’ve had a hand in forcing these changes, or perhaps, you just walked into work one…

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