Reliving the glory days of the GNOME 2 desktop is but a browser tab away – well, kinda. The personal website of Benny Powers, a software developer at Red Hat, is not a traditional vertical column of text. Nor is it a slop-soup of purple gradients, roun…
Read MoreWith Richard Stallman back on the road and FSF backing 46 community-focused LibreLocal meetups worldwide, the free software movement looks anything but finished.
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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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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.
The post When Your Xorg Fork Is More About DEI Than Display Servers appeared first on FOSS Forc…
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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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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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.
The post Alpine Linux Turns Equinix Metal Exit Into an Infras…
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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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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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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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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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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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…
Read MoreFreeBSD 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.
The post It’s CoreOS Test Week for Fedora 42 and Fedora Users are Needed …
Christine promises that she’s going to write about this year’s SUSECon conference, but she started with this…
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