An article in which we ponder desktop Linux’s rising usage numbers, and debate ChromeOS’s status as a Linux operating system.
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On Valentine’s day a developer for the popular open-source web server platform Nginx announced a fork of the project to create FreeNginx. Here’s what you need to know about the fork, and what it means to the future of Nginx.
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Last week Mozilla’s $7 million dollar CEO Mitchell Baker announced that she was stepping away from the C-suite, although she’ll remain onboard as chairperson of both Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation.
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For the first time in its three year’s of existence, AlmaLinux didn’t release its new version within hours of a new RHEL release. That’s because AlmaLinux is no longer just a copy and paste RHEL clone.
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DoorDash thinks we’re supposed to be impressed that it’s working to keep its drivers safe. We ask, isn’t that just what they should be expected to do? We have a suggestion about something they should do if they really want to impress us with their effo…
The cryptocurrency funded Brave Browser has a new proprietary AI assistant; new versions of Kali, KDE Gear, and LibreOffice; with changes on the way in The Document Foundation’s versioning scheme.
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Canadians in wildfire ravaged areas can’t swap important and potentially life saving news stories on Facebook as a result of the country’s recently passed news link law.
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About a month after Canonical pulled LXD from Linux Containers, with the ‘LXD community experiment’ evidently being labeled internally as a ‘failure’ by Ubuntu, the code is forked and almost immediately accepted as a project at Linux Containers.
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In this week’s news roundup, our Christine Hall tells you what she thinks has gone wrong at Red Hat, and again tries to wrestle Elon Musk to the floor. In between, she covers some more of this week’s FOSS news.
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In this week’s column we wish Slackware a happy 30th birthday, look forward to the soon to be landing Mageia 9, and get the bugs out of LibreOffice 7.5.5.
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A large number of open-source organizations are saying that if this act is enacted into law, it will do damage to open-source, both in Europe and globally.
The post Bad News for Open Source: EU Committee Approves the Cyber Resilience Act appeared first…
With Ikey Doherty again taking a central role within the Solus Project, it’s a fair question to ask how long he will stay before abandoning Solus for the third time.
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On Sunday Linux Mint announced the release of Linux Mint 21.2 across all three of its mainstream editions. Like other releases in the 21.x series, this release will be supported until 2027.
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After seven years, we’re reviving our Friday FOSS Week in Review column. This week we’re covering Istio’s graduation at CNCF, Oracle’s attempt to take the moral high ground against Red Hat, and Elon Musk’s latest adventure.
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Warning! The percent symbol (%) is used a lot in this article, which is known to cause headaches in some readers.
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As Red Hat’s reputation as an example to the corporate world on how to do open-source right fades, will SUSE’s new CEO, Kirk-Peter van Leeuwen, pick up the mantle?
The post SUSE Promises to Fork RHEL and Make It Publicly Available appeared first on FO…
The New York Stock Exchange doesn’t like it when your stock dips below a dollar.
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As Canonical readies a new Snap-driven version of Ubuntu desktop, Flatpak downloads keep growing and growing and growing…
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After spending eight years as a Linux Containers project, Canonical says it wants to bring the project back home to Ubuntu.
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Like the Energizer Bunny, TweetDeck keeps loading and loading and loading…
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