The Apache Software Foundation is making changes in an attempt to right a wrong it unintentionally created when it adopted its name 25-years ago.
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Maybe it’s just an oversight, but the European Commission’s draft of projects for next year fails to mention the NGI Zero Commons Fund, an important source of funding for FOSS projects.
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Would openSUSE by any other name still have Tumbleweed and Leap? We’ve looked at the openSUSE name-change controversy and have decided there’s nothing to see here — move on.
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The Free Software Foundation might be getting itself back on track as the radical watchdog for copyleft and free software with the appointment of free software activist and pioneer John Gilmore to its board of directors.
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Fancy rubbing shoulders with the great and the good in the Ubuntu community, learning new things, seeing cool demos, and perhaps getting a bit merry with your fellow geeks? If so, make a date to attend the Ubuntu Summit, which this year is being held i…
In a move towards self-improvement, the creator of ReiserFS and a current resident at California’s Soledad prison, asked for a change to be made in the software’s README file before support for the software is removed from Linux next year. A Linux kern…
In a move towards self-improvement, the creator of ReiserFS and a current resident at California’s Soledad prison, asked for a change to be made in the software’s README file before support for the software is removed from Linux next year. A Linux kern…
This years Fedora Flock event was slated to take place in Mexico City. Then organizers hit a roadblock that made it a bridge too far.
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We’re inclined to subtitle this “A Camera’s Eye View of the Death of a Social Platform.”
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Foundation members will be voting to elect a total of three board members. One will be to fill a seat that was vacated when its holder stepped down. The others are completely new seats.
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Lordy! Lordy! Lordy! Gnu’s turning 40! The Free Software Foundation is pulling out all of the stops for a birthday celebration hack day on October…
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In the age of computers, 30 is a ripe old age. Happy birthday, Debian.
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Join me in hearing an imaginary drum roll as I reveal the date and location of the next Ubuntu Summit. This year, Riga in Latvia will host Ubuntu’s in-person soirée, from November 3rd to November 5th at the The Radisson Blu Latvija Hotel. Interes…
Fedora is looking for a few good testers.
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Remember when Ubuntu said it was getting serious about gaming? Well, it hasn’t forgotten entirely — it’s once again asking gamers to take part in a fresh bout of testing for its Steam snap. Steam is available on Ubuntu through traditional p…
A seemingly unintentional factual error in a get-out-the-vote email sent by Open Source Initiative to its members could result in some members waiting until after the polls close to vote in the organizations current board of directors election.
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If this is March, it must be election time at OSI. This year, two individual seats and one affiliate seat are in the running.
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Here’s a dozen reasons, in the form of a dozen items that are on this year’s schedule, to go to this year’s SCALE, which starts Thursday in Pasadena, California.
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Flatpak will no longer be available “out-of-the-box” in any of Ubuntu’s official flavors. In a surprise move, Ubuntu flavors have agreed to stop shipping Flatpak, preinstalled Flatpak apps, and any plugins needed to install Flatpak ap…
All Thing’s Open’s expansion into North Carolina’s largest city will be begin with a free Meetup by podcast host Mike Bifulco, and will be followed in March by this year’s Open Source 101.
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