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…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read MoreThis 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…
Read MoreFedora 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…
Read MoreA 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.
The pos…
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…
Read MoreAll 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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Edubuntu is a forgotten member of Ubuntu family focused on educators, schools & students. Now, 9 years on from its last release, it’s heading back to class.
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You will be able to register to attend the revived Ubuntu Summit from September 1, 2022. A webpage to promote the 3-day in-person conference (which folks will be able to follow along with online) is live, ahead of the event itself being held in Prague,…
Read MoreThe GNOME project is set to receive a $10,000 boost from Microsoft. But before anyone gets their underwear twisted there aren’t any strings attached. No acquisitions, no conditions, and certainly no embracing. So what’s the deal? Well, Micr…
Read MoreGitHub is ‘sunsetting’ the Atom text editor later this year. No further development on the app is planned, and encourages users to seek out alternatives.
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I think most of us can agree that the Firefox Snap included in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS doesn’t start up nearly as fast as it could (or arguably should). Now, Canonical wants us to know that — and it wants us know that it’s doing something to fix i…
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