Mastodon makes a major move amid Musk's multiple messes
Federated social network adds n00b-friendly features to the 'Fediverse'
Software22 Sep 2023 | 46
Open Source
GNU turns 40: Stallman's baby still not ready for prime time, but hey, there's cake
It turned the software industry upside down regardless
Applications20 Sep 2023 | 81
Terraform fork OpenTF renamed and relocated as OpenTofu
Open wide!
Software20 Sep 2023 | 10
NASA wants to believe ... that you can help it crack UFO mysteries
Is there nothing crowdsourcing and open source phone apps can't solve?
Offbeat14 Sep 2023 | 29
Google outlines Outline SDK: Censorship, geo-block-beating tool to drop into apps
Well, when it's finished, anyway
Networks14 Sep 2023 | 3
NixCon drops Palmer Luckey's AI combat drone maker Anduril as sponsor due to military ties
NixOS event organizers say community unhappy about funding from Pentagon contractor
AI + ML08 Sep 2023 | 8
BROADER TOPICS
NARROWER TOPICS
Linux distros drop their feelgood hits of the summer
A quiet period for the IT industry is a good time to rebuild and refresh, apparently
OSes07 Sep 2023 | 12
The world seems so loopy. But at least someone's written a memory-safe sudo in Rust
Turns out we can have nice things?
Software02 Sep 2023 | 141
antiX 23: Anarchic for sure, but 'design by committee' isn't always the best for Linux
Still, it's blisteringly fast and systemd-free too
OSes01 Sep 2023 | 58
Chinese vendor apologizes for claiming Microsoft open source code was its own product
CEC-IDE is re-skinned Visual Studio Code with added censorware to spot terms like ‘Taiwan Independence’
Software31 Aug 2023 | 15
FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds
On AWS Firecracker – but there are other new micro-VM engines around, too
Applications29 Aug 2023 | 80
OpenTF forks Terraform, insists HashiCorp is the splinter group
Dude, stop hitting yourself
Devops28 Aug 2023 | 13
Amazon Linux 2023 virtual machine images still MIA
Enterprise Linux users question web giant's commitment to hybrid cloud
Cloud Infrastructure Week25 Aug 2023 | 13
Bodhi Linux 7 brings Enlightenment to Ubuntu
With a choice of kernel versions, and even a 32-bit edition
OSes25 Aug 2023 | 47
Big Tech pumps $235M into AI model depot Hugging Face
Upstart now valued at $4B after Salesforce, Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and pals dish out dosh
AI + ML24 Aug 2023 |
Rocky Linux backer CIQ rejects lawsuit's claims it was founded on stolen IP
Brands allegations as 'meritless' after being sued by HPC software provider Sylabs
HPC24 Aug 2023 | 10
Xebian is the Marie Kondo of Linux distros – it's here to declutter
Clean, simple, quick, and an example of how less can give you more
OSes24 Aug 2023 | 19
G20 digital ministers sign up for Digital Public Infrastructure push
They've also thought of the children, and the poor SMEs trying to stay secure
Software21 Aug 2023 | 3
A license to trust: Can you rely on 'open source' companies?
Opinion Sometimes nothing fails like success
OSes18 Aug 2023 | 27
SUSE to flip back into private ownership after just two-and-a-bit years
Buyout offer is at €16 per share, compared to €30 at its 2021 IPO
Software18 Aug 2023 | 16
India's digital public goods diplomacy scores wins around the world
France likes its payment system, Saudi Arabia is close to co-operating, and the Caribbean is calling
Software18 Aug 2023 | 6
30 years on, Debian is at the heart of the world's most successful Linux distros
August 16 was an especially big day for this island of stability
OSes17 Aug 2023 | 88
OpenZFS 2.2 is nearly here, and ZFSBootMenu 2.2 already is
A menu-driven, snapshot-enabled bootloader for Linux with root on ZFS
Storage16 Aug 2023 | 18
Not call: Open source gurus urge you to dump Zoom
In footsteps of GiveUpGitHub, campaign follows AI ToS fiasco
Software15 Aug 2023 | 70
Veilid: A secure peer-to-peer network for apps that flips off the surveillance economy
DEF CON ‘It’s like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing’
Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2023 | 35
HashiCorp's new license is still open source-ish, just with less free lunch
Software house transitions to BSL, and fundies are furious
Software11 Aug 2023 | 23
Linux project's first full version has all the subtlety of a Rhino in a China shop
An option if Ubuntu interim releases are too slow, easy and stable for your liking
OSes11 Aug 2023 | 5
GNOME 45 beta: Less buggy, more colorful, and still not your grandma's desktop
Codenamed Riga after the venue for this year's GUADEC conference
OSes10 Aug 2023 | 20
India launches contest to build homegrown web browser
Almost certainly based on a FOSS engine, but with tweaks for the nation's particular needs
Software10 Aug 2023 | 21
RIP Bram Moolenaar: Coding world mourns Vim creator
Obit :wq buddy
Software07 Aug 2023 | 56
Lacros rescues Chromebooks by extending their lifespans
'Play sports and live longer' apparently now applies to ChromeOS as well as sedentary geeks
Software03 Aug 2023 | 32
Middleweight champ MX Linux 23 delivers knockout punch
Debian 12-based version should be your first choice for a non-systemd distro
OSes03 Aug 2023 | 77
Soft-reboot in systemd 254 sounds a lot like Windows' Fast Startup
Where does Agent P work again?
OSes02 Aug 2023 | 127
Creator of the Unix Sysadmin Song explains he just wanted to liven up a textbook
When you get to Chapter 15 of a Unix book you're ready for a laugh
Sysadmin Month28 Jul 2023 | 18
OctoX is a radical Rust implementation of a very old OS for RISC-V
There's still life in the wider Version 6 Unix family – and 9front too
OSes28 Jul 2023 | 19
Slackware wasn't the first Linux distro, but it's the oldest still alive and kicking
Who needs a graphical desktop manager anyway?
OSes20 Jul 2023 | 58
Mint 21.2 is desktop Linux without the faff
Nifty new features mostly go to Cinnamon users, though
OSes19 Jul 2023 | 82
Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market
Opinion It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't
OSes18 Jul 2023 | 239
AlmaLinux project climbs down from being a one-to-one RHEL clone
Comment A worrying concession means that the shape of the marketplace is changing
OSes17 Jul 2023 | 47
Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux
May be about to join systemd as the new tech for graybeards to scorn... but adopt anyway
OSes13 Jul 2023 | 120
China's openKylin 1.0 arrives. Our verdict? Not a bad-looking, er, Ubuntu remix
It's certainly not the country's 'first homegrown open source desktop operating system'
OSes07 Jul 2023 | 17
Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in
Opinion Big Blue's top brass either don't get it or don't care
OSes07 Jul 2023 | 115
Rocky Linux details the loopholes that will help its RHEL rebuild live on
When you're on the wrong side of Red Hat, these could be subject to change
OSes04 Jul 2023 | 95
Linux Mint cuts slice of 'Victoria' as 21.2 beta lands with dash of fresh Cinnamon
Desktop Ubuntu, but without the nonsense
OSes29 Jun 2023 | 51
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge
Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds
OSes28 Jun 2023 | 221
Linux 6.4 debuts after literally unremarkable development push
Latest cut of the kernel gets RISC-ier, moves towards Wi-Fi 7, ejects PCMCIA cards
OSes26 Jun 2023 | 9
Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI
Opinion Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does
Sysadmin Month23 Jun 2023 | 92
US government extends software security deadline because vendors aren't ready
This from the Administration that made infosec a priority
Software13 Jun 2023 | 4
Google snubbed JPEG XL so of course Apple now supports it in Safari
Chocolate Factory under pressure to reverse decision to abandon image format
Applications07 Jun 2023 | 54
Oh Snap... Desktop Ubuntu Core to arrive in 2024
Changes are happening in Fedora and openSUSE immutable distros, too
OSes06 Jun 2023 | 65
Debian 12 'Bookworm' is the excitement-free Linux you've been waiting for
If Ubuntu is getting you down, check out its grandad
OSes05 Jun 2023 | 54
This malicious PyPI package mixed source and compiled code to dodge detection
Oh cool, something else to scan for
Security02 Jun 2023 | 11
XFS bug in Linux kernel 6.3.3 coincides with SGI code comeback
G.N.U. Silicon Graphics: a company is not dead while its name is still spoken
Security31 May 2023 | 12
Absolute mad lad renders Doom in teletext
Sure is '90s in here
Offbeat31 May 2023 | 34
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it
Opinion Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you
Personal Tech30 May 2023 | 93
Red Hat promises AI trained on 'curated' and 'domain-specific' data
Opinion Says it'll keep track of what it hoovers up at post-layoff summit
Applications26 May 2023 | 17
Alpine Linux 3.18 fixes DNS over TCP issue, now ready for all the internet's problems
Small but mighty update will help its many users – even the unwitting ones
OSes16 May 2023 | 6
EU's Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill for open source developers
Opinion The road to hell is paved with good intentions
OSes12 May 2023 | 82
Ubuntu 23.04 welcomes three more flavors, but hamburger menus leave a bad taste
Official Cinnamon, Edubuntu reborn, and an updated Kylin
OSes11 May 2023 | 48
Open source AI makes modern PCs relevant, and subscriptions seem shabby
Column Why sign up for ChatGPT when LLaMA and a multicore beast can do as well?
AI + ML11 May 2023 | 36
Open source at America's famous Los Alamos Lab: Pragmatism as its nucleus
Its 20,000-node cluster uses outdated MariaDB – for very good reasons
HPC10 May 2023 | 10
India bans open source messaging apps for security reasons. FOSS community says good luck
One banned tool is already working on Android-to-Android meshes that survive internet outages
Software09 May 2023 | 37
Biting the hand that feeds IT
