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No, LibreOffice Doesn’t Turn 40 This Year, but StarOffice Would if It Were Still Around

It’s like reading the Old Testament: Star Writer begat StarOffice who begat OpenOffice, which begat LibreOffice. All but the standalone version of Star Writer battled with Microsoft’s Office suite in the marketplace arena.
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Mirantis Releases k0rdent for Managing Kubernetes Clusters Across Clouds

Mirantis is calling this, “the first open-source Distributed Container Management Environment,” with “distributed” being the key word.
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ELevate Now Allows No Fuss Migration to CentOS 10

If you’re using CentOS 9 in production and you’re ready to make the move to CentOS 10, AlmaLinux’s ELevate tool can help.
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TuxCare Stops Microsoft From Killing .NET 6.0

For the first time, TuxCare is offering support for Microsoft software that’s no longer supported. .NET 6.0 reached end of life last November.
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Red Hat In-Vehicle Linux Gets Closer to Go With New Certification

The company says that the new functional safety certification for Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System is a key step in its push towards ISO 26262 ASIL-B certification of the entire platform.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: September 2024 Updates

Here’s our September 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Just Released Nextcloud Hub 9 Focuses on Decentralization and Automating AI

Here’s a look at the new features and expanded capabilities in Nextcloud Hub 9 which was released on Saturday.
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MastoGizmos: 11 Free Search Tools for Exploring Mastodon

If you have to do research online you might want to bookmark this set of online tools that make exploring Mastodon’s federated world easy.
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Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund Puts Over $750K Into FreeBSD Infrastructure Projects

The FreeBSD Foundation will organize and manage the projects that STF is funding, which mainly focuses on security.
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It’s Time to Upgrade to LibreOffice’s Latest and Greatest ‘Cause 24.8 Is Here

Among other things, this newest version of LibreOffice will let you choose whether to allow or disallow a hyphen at the end of the last line on a page.
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Thanks to Nextcloud, FOSS Webmail Client Roundcube Now Has Support on Steroids

How Nextcloud came to the aid of a popular open source project, in part by getting three other open source projects involved.
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App for Migrating Away From Dead RHEL Clones Adds Scientific Linux Support

The lift and shift app, ELevate, for easily migrating away from no longer supported distros, adds Scientific Linux support as well as new features. The…
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Snowflake Open Sources Apache Iceberg-related Polaris Data Catalog

Alongside the notification that Polaris Catalog has been made open source, Dremio announced that it was sharing Project Nessie’s capabilities with Polaris.
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Revolt of the Redis Maintainers: New Redis Clone, Valkey, Has Linux Foundation Support

Another fork of Redis has arrived, and this one might end up making the Redis suits wish they had never even considered abandoning open-source. It has the support of The Linux Foundation, big tech, and many of the project’s long-time contributors.
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Wi-Fi Not Working in Linux? Here’s How to Fix It

There are lots of issues getting non-Intel Wi-Fi modules to work well under Linux. Find out how to fix Wi-Fi that is not working on Linux.
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How Nginx Went From Being the Little Engine That Could to Become the Fork of the Day

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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Did You Know That DreamWorks MoonRay Renderer Is Open Source? It Is, and It Just Got Upgraded!

DreamWorks first released its rendering platform as open-source under the name OpenMoonRay in March, 2023. Earlier this week the software received its first upgrade. These…
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Valve Releases Steam Audio as Open Source

Game developers should be happy to learn that Steam Audio SDK, including all of its plugins, are now covered under the Apache-2.0 license.
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Released Today: What’s New in Nextcloud Hub 7

Although officially released today, enterprises will need to wait for about four weeks longer before deploying the enterprise edition, as the software still needs to go through the certification process.
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OwnCloud Dropbox Alternative Merges With Proprietary Kiteworks

Terms of this three-way merger that also includes Dracoon have not been disclosed.
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