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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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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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…
FreeBSD evidently found last year’s Community Survey so useful that they’re turning it into an annual event.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Late last night, when it was early the next afternoon in the land down under, our Christine Hall was virtually down home Australian style!
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Sad news from Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth today: longtime Ubuntu and Debian contributor Steve Langasek has passed away. In a touching post on the Ubuntu Discourse, Mark Shuttleworth shares: “Steve passed away at the dawn of 2025. His time wa…
Although it appears that after a 22-year run that linux.conf.au is now a thing of the past, the folks who brought it to you have launched a new conference that’s about… well, everything open.
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At 2025’s Southern California Linux Fest there will be at least eight colocated open source focused events in addition to the main attraction.
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Those who aren’t familiar with the recent brouhaha between WordPress’s Matt Mullenweg and the hosting site WP Engine need not worry. The story will unfold as we go along. Otherwise, follow the links along the way.
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An open source conference based in Argentina has lately been branching out to include events in Chile and Mexico, with Madrid, Spain in the works for 2025.
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Graham indicates that he might be going to move into more of an editorship position with the column going forward.
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Dollar for dollar matching funds, cool swag, and you get to sleep better at night knowing that the folks at Tor are able to continue working hard to protect your privacy. What’s not to like about that?
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Cory Doctorow will be giving the closing keynote on the first day of the free online-only The Tech We Want Online Summit.
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The Gnome Foundation indicates increased belt tightening in its new budget due to continuing financial woes.
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