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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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First Look at Ubuntu 23.10 on Raspberry Pi 5

My Raspberry Pi 5 finally arrived yesterday, so the first thing I did after I set it up was to try various GNU/Linux distributions, ending up with Canonical’s latest Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) release. Expect this to be a review of both software an…

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Doordash Does a Thing for Safety and Wants Credit for Doing What Should Be Expected

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…

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Nextcloud Unveils Hub 6: More than a FOSS Replacement for Microsoft 365 Business Standard

Saturday morning at the Nextcloud Conference in Berlin, Nextcloud announced the release of Nextcloud Hub 6, which is the latest and greatest version of the…
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FOSS Week In Review: ZFS’s Ubuntu Return, the Nigerian Prince Goes AI, Stolen Passwords, Torvalds Does Hutton, and More

In this week’s roundup we look at ZFS’s return to Ubuntu as an install option (and why it was removed in the first place), how the Nigerian Prince is adopting AI for phishing, Linux Torvalds fabulous impersonation of E.F. Hutton, and more.
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FOSS Week in Review: LibreOffice Fixes Bugs, KDE Release Plans, Automakers ‘F’ on Privacy, and more…

In this week’s roundup, we look at the winding down of LibreOffice’s 7.5 series, how KDE’s getting it together for Plasma’s upcoming 6.0 release, Mozilla’s look at privacy issues and modern automobiles, and more.
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KDE Gear 23.08 Arrived With Plenty of Changes: Here’s What’s New

In many ways, KDE Gear’s apps supply the backbone on the Linux desktop experience. Newly released KDE Gear 23.08 brings many changes to these apps, and we look at them here.
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FOSS Week in Review: Kali Cleans House, Kalendar Becomes Merkuro, Brave’s Unfree Assistant, & More…

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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Fork of LXD Lands Almost Immediately as Linux Containers’ Newest Project

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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FOSS Week in Review: Slackware Turns 30, Mageia 9 Coming Soon, & LibreOffice 7.5.5

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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MariaDB’s Stock Exchange Woes For Dummies

The New York Stock Exchange doesn’t like it when your stock dips below a dollar.
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Red Hat’s Impact on Free Software and Open Source Values

In this in-depth review of Red Hat’s recent move, learn about its impact on free software and open source values.
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Snap-Based Immutable Ubuntu Coming as Flathub Downloads Pass the Billion Mark

As Canonical readies a new Snap-driven version of Ubuntu desktop, Flatpak downloads keep growing and growing and growing…
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Mirantis Pushes Security With Its New k0s 1.27 Kubernetes Release

Mirantis has released k0s 1.27 as the latest and greatest version of its open-source Kubernetes distribution. With this release, the focus seems to be on security.
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