The FreeBSD Foundation will organize and manage the projects that STF is funding, which mainly focuses on security.
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Windows might not rule the day at Microsoft anymore, but it’s still a moneymaker and desktop Linux is still the competition.
The post What Microsoft’s Borking of Grub Says About Redmond’s ‘Love’ of Linux appeared first on FOSS Force.
Great news! Linux has reached a new milestone in desktop market share. As of July 2024, Linux has achieved a 4.45% market share for desktop operating systems worldwide.
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Does Wayland becoming the defacto standard display server for Linux serve to marginalize BSD?
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If you’re still running CentOS 6, you know for a fact that you need to get to another operating system pronto. The folks CloudLinux/AlmaLinux know this, and have made changes to their open-source lift-and-shift tool, ELevate, so that you can now easily…
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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Sometimes Linux drains battery life for no good reason, which shouldn’t be confused with “The Linux way.”
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In this guide, we will take a look at a list of top operating systems you can use for your Internet of Things projects.
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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.
The post FOSS Week In Review: ‘Madd…
With Red Hat helping Asahi Linux develop software for porting Linux to run on Apple’s Arm silicon, how long before Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports Apple hardware?
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It’s a debate that’s been going on since Android came onto the scene: Does simple use of the Linux kernel qualify an operating system to be a bona fide Linux operating system?
The post The Paradox of Being (or Not Being) a Linux Operating System appear…
On Thursday, the AlmaLinux Foundation made public its plans to continue to develop and maintain its RHEL clone without access to Red Hat’s source code.
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Warning! The percent symbol (%) is used a lot in this article, which is known to cause headaches in some readers.
The post Wowie Zowie! Linux Use Hits 3%! The Year of the Linux Desktop Is at Hand! appeared first on FOSS Force.
As Canonical readies a new Snap-driven version of Ubuntu desktop, Flatpak downloads keep growing and growing and growing…
The post Snap-Based Immutable Ubuntu Coming as Flathub Downloads Pass the Billion Mark appeared first on FOSS Force.
Ubuntu 23.04 not only brings many new features to the table for enterprise users, it has plenty of features to please its home-user base as well.
The post Ubuntu 23.04 ‘Lunar Lobster’ Desktop Released: Focuses on Enterprises and Everyday Li…
On Sunday, Scale made its first keynote reveal for 2023 with Arun Gupta, former CNCF chairperson, governing board member at OpenSSF, and VP and GM for Open Ecosystem at Intel. On Tuesday, Scale made its second keynote announcement: Ken Thompson, the cr…
India’s new Android-based mobile operating system, BharOS, was publicly tested on Tuesday. It’s part of a project to make India less dependent on technology developed outside the country.
The post India’s New Indigenous BharOS Is Basically DeGoog…
With the release of Nitrux Linux 2.6.0, the distribution moves further from the mainstream.
The post Why Nitrux Linux 2.6.0 Isn’t for Everybody and Doesn’t Try to Be appeared first on FOSS Force.
The post The Most Used Operating Systems in the World first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Brief: This article explores some of the most popular and widely used operating systems in the world. If you have ever used a PC, Macbook…
There’s been an upsurge in the number of users switching from Windows to Linux. Here are the reasons to make that switch from Windows to Linux.
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