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Fedora 44 Tips Its Hat With a Virtual Release Party

The Fedora crew has bumped the launch more than once, yet the global, come‑as‑you‑are virtual release party is going ahead right on schedule.
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When Your Xorg Fork Is More About DEI Than Display Servers

A fork created amid claims of censorship and anti‑DEI posturing is now in the news for the same reason: not how it renders pixels, but how it treats people.
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OpenSSF Welcomes New Members as SLSA, Gemara, and AI Security Efforts Mature

At Amsterdam’s SecurityCon Europe, the Linux Foundation’s OpenSSF adds new members and showcases progress on SLSA, Gemara, and AI security.
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Is Manjaro Done? Stick a Fork in It

A rebellion inside the Manjaro project, a community strike, and a threatened fork raise a hard question for users and contributors alike: is it time to rescue Manjaro, or walk away?
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Alpine Linux Turns Equinix Metal Exit Into an Infrastructure Upgrade

With Equinix Metal headed for shutdown, Alpine Linux has secured fresh backing from regional cloud and hosting providers, emerging with more diverse and resilient infrastructure than before.
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What Do You Want to See From Ubuntu in 2026?

What would make 2026 Ubuntu’s best year yet? Share your wishlist wants and must-haves, be it bold changes or resolving long-standing bugs. Sound off!
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Happy 34th Birthday, Linux!

Today is Linux’s 34th birthday so join me in wishing Linux many more awesome years to come and to celebrate its amazing journey.
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Boston-Based FSF Could Use a Few Volunteers on August 11

FSF’s big summer fundraiser is over and it’s now time for rolling up the sleeves to get those orders shipped!
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How My AI Assistants Told Me to Show My Appreciation on SysAdmin Day

Oops! Yet another year that we forgot to write a SysAdmin Day article. Considering that we’ve been around for 15 years, that makes us 0 for 15.
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FSF Summer Fundraiser: Lots of Merch Until July 28

The online store for the Free Software Foundation summer fundraiser is full of really neat stuff… and it’s for a good cause.
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Why Is FOSS Force Reporting on a ‘No Kings’ Event in Elkin, NC

On No Kings Day in a small town in North Carolina, our reporter rediscovers that code, community, and politics are intertwined.
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Fedora 42 Release Party: Join the Celebration on Thursday

You don’t have to use Fedora to attend the Fedora 42 Release Party, but you will have to get up early if you live in the US. The party starts on Thursday at 9 am on the east coast, and at 6 am for those overlooking the Pacific.
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‘End of 10’ to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux

It’s almost like the good ol’ days of install fests and the like! ‘End of 10’ is an organization that’s making it easy for Windows 10 users with computers that can’t upgrade to Windows 11, to install Linux instead of sending good hardware to the landfi…

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FreeBSD Wants to Know a Few Things

FreeBSD evidently found last year’s Community Survey so useful that they’re turning it into an annual event.
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Petition Attempts to Force OSI to Release Complete Vote Count

When it comes to Open Source Initiative’s 2025 board election, we’re reminded of Yogi Berra’s observation that, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.”
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Mirantis Is Giving Two Kubernetes Projects to CNCF

Less than a week after IBM announced that it was donating three open source AI tools to the Linux Foundation, FOSS Force learns that Kubernetes-focused Mirantis is the process of donating a couple of project to CNCF.
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It’s CoreOS Test Week for Fedora 42 and Fedora Users are Needed

The release of Fedora 42 is only a month or so away, so the folks who engineer the project are calling for the user community to help, in a Test Week that starts on Monday.
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Wow! Just Wow! SUSECon’s End-of-Conference Bash!

Christine promises that she’s going to write about this year’s SUSECon conference, but she started with this…
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SCALE Is This Weekend, SUSECon’s in a Couple of Days, and ATO AI Is Only a Week Away

Scale is taking over Pasadena, SUSECon has moved in on Disney’s domain of Orlando for a week, and ATO AI Has an Official Poster (and is close to being sold out). It looks like it’s going to be a good conference year to us!
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Open Letter Urges EU to Not Be Bullied By Trump and His Tech Bros on Cyber Issues

The letter, addressed to the President of the European Commission and signed by 42 organizations, urges EU officials to continue to regulate big US tech companies that are aligning themselves with Trump.
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