A year on, Valkey charts path to v9 after break from Redis
Interview Fork focuses on stability and inclusion as it preps for more ambitious changes
Databases15 May 2025 |
Open Source
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart
Community fork picks up where TrueNAS CORE left off
Storage12 May 2025 | 8
GNOME Foundation's new executive director is Canadian, a techie, and a GNOME user
Steven Deobald certainly talks the talk
OSes08 May 2025 | 19
From Russia with doubt: Go library's Kremlin ties stoke fear
Easyjson library's presence in numerous open source projects alarms security biz
Software06 May 2025 | 10
Commodore OS 3 is the loudest Linux yet
One distro has to be the most extra – and here it is
OSes06 May 2025 | 51
Oregon State University's Open Source Lab is running on fumes
Shakeup in US higher education funding means FOSS incubator is short a quarter of a million bucks
Software02 May 2025 | 20
NARROWER TOPICS
NATS custody battle ends with CNCF, Synadia sharing nicely
Trademark, domain name, GitHub repos stay under control of open source foundation – no word on any forking off for now
PaaS + IaaS02 May 2025 | 4
Open source AI hiring bots favor men, leave women hanging by the phone
Easy fix: Telling LLMs to cosplay Lenin makes 'em more gender blind
AI + ML02 May 2025 | 67
KDE 3 lives to fight another day as Trinity Desktop 14.1.4 hits the shelves
Good news, everyone: 15 years on, TDE still pushes pixels
OSes01 May 2025 | 19
The State of Open Source in 2025? Honestly, it's a mess but you knew that already
The good news: everyone's using it. The bad news: have you seen how they're using it?
Software29 Apr 2025 | 38
CNCF tells main NATS contributor Synadia that it's free to fork off
But what it can't do is 'unilaterally claw back a community project and its infrastructure, assets, and branding'
Software28 Apr 2025 | 2
Return of Redis creator bears fruit with vector set data type
LLM query caching also lands soon
Databases10 Apr 2025 | 6
FreeDOS 1.4: Still DOS, still FOSS, more modern than ever
The 1990s called – they're impressed
OSes09 Apr 2025 | 36
Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival
Thunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more
Software02 Apr 2025 | 69
RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory
Modern 64-bit-only chips are leaving the original Arm operating system behind
OSes01 Apr 2025 | 64
FaunaDB shuts down but hints at open source future
Capital costs of creating document-relational serverless database take their toll
Databases24 Mar 2025 | 2
GNOME 48 lands with performance boosts, new fonts, better accessibility
Tweaks mean smoother operation even on low-end kit
OSes24 Mar 2025 | 44
Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0
Meanwhile, open source video codec Ogg Theora stirs in its crypt
Software20 Mar 2025 | 300
Too many software supply chain defense bibles? Boffins distill advice
How to avoid another SolarWinds, Log4j, and XZ Utils situation
Security20 Mar 2025 | 10
SystemRescue 12 lands with added bcachefs support
You might need that – the file system has some hard-to-squish bugs
OSes20 Mar 2025 | 7
Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware
Updated Dev behind the GNU-free distro says boards too slow for serious work
Systems19 Mar 2025 | 31
Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust
It's easier to replace bits of userland than the kernel
OSes19 Mar 2025 | 99
GitHub supply chain attack spills secrets from 23,000 projects
Large organizations among those cleaning up the mess
Cyber-crime17 Mar 2025 | 34
Flang-tastic! LLVM's Fortran compiler finally drops the training wheels
Another all-FOSS option – just don't confuse it with all the other Flangs
OSes17 Mar 2025 | 26
Dash to Panel maintainer quits after donations drive becomes dash to disaster
Tin rattling earns rebuke from GNOME extension's original developer as well as dozens of everyday users
Software14 Mar 2025 | 70
Nextcloud puts out fire after data leak panic
Community calls for off-by-default data sharing setting
Software13 Mar 2025 | 3
Free95 claims to be a GPL 3 Windows clone, but it's giving vaporware vibes
Don't, don't, DON'T believe the hype
OSes12 Mar 2025 | 57
eBPF. It doesn't stand for anything. But it might mean bank
Meta says it cut CPU usage by 20% through kernel-level profiling. Just FYI
OSes09 Mar 2025 | 23
Essential FOSS tools to make macOS suck less
Friday FOSS fest Moved from Windows or Linux? Smooth some of the rough edges
Software07 Mar 2025 | 43
Worry not. China's on the line saying AGI still a long way off
Instead of Turing Test, subject models to this Survival Game to assess intelligence, scientist tells The Reg
AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 42
Free Software Foundation rides to defend AGPLv3 against Neo4j license add-ons
FOSS bods file amicus brief in hope of preserving core GNU tenet of freedom forever
Software04 Mar 2025 | 25
Open Source Initiative defends disallowing board candidate after timezone SNAFU
Here's another thing AI can do: Cause conflict around whether it's compatible with the very idea of open source
Software28 Feb 2025 | 28
FYI: An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license
Updated Defense of FOSS licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia
Databases27 Feb 2025 | 78
OBS-tacle course: Fedora and Flathub's Flatpak fiasco sparks repo rumble
Dispute settled, but not the causes
OSes25 Feb 2025 | 23
How's that open source licensing coming along? That well, huh?
State Of Open When a vendor and a community stop loving each other, things can get very forked up
OSes24 Feb 2025 | 14
Docker delays Hub pull limits by a month, tweaks maximums, stalls storage billing indefinitely
Image fetches to be capped on hourly basis for Personal, unauthenticated use, paid-for plans get unlimited access
Devops22 Feb 2025 | 11
Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code, says its rise is inevitable
Final update Nobody wants memory bugs. Penguinistas continue debate on how to squish 'em
OSes21 Feb 2025 | 178
KDE Plasma 6.3 released – and 6.3.1 is already here
A year on from the big overhaul of Plasma 6, more functionality appears
OSes19 Feb 2025 | 13
GNOME 48 beta is another nail in X11's coffin
Our first look at the default desktop for Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 'Plucky Puffin'
OSes18 Feb 2025 | 73
Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze
State Of Open Overworked, under pressure, and subjected to abuse – is it really worth it?
Software16 Feb 2025 | 80
Why do younger coders struggle to break through the FOSS graybeard barrier?
FOSDEM 2025 The hurdles are higher than you might imagine
Software14 Feb 2025 | 111
After clash over Rust in Linux, now Asahi lead quits distro, slams Linus' kernel leadership
I fought the Torv and ... the Torv won
OSes13 Feb 2025 | 158
LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
FOSDEM 2025 Standard FOSS office suite continues to evolve in interesting new directions
Applications13 Feb 2025 | 145
WordPress war latest: Ploy to trademark Hosted WordPress, Managed WordPress derailed
Updated Objection from open source community heralded as 'great victory for the ecosystem'
Software13 Feb 2025 | 8
'Key kernel maintainers' still back Rust in the Linux kernel, despite the doubters
Rustaceans could just wait for unwelcoming C coders to slowly SIGQUIT...
OSes11 Feb 2025 | 44
Microsoft open sources PostgreSQL extensions to muscle in on NoSQL
Analysis But will it set a real standard for MongoDB alternatives?
Databases11 Feb 2025 | 12
Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer
Updated Some worry multiple languages will make it harder to maintain this open source uber-project, others disagree
Software05 Feb 2025 | 127
Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers
Popular community site became unmentionable – the irony is thick enough to compile
Personal Tech28 Jan 2025 | 58
WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference
New double-digit vintage goes well with all sorts of things
OSes24 Jan 2025 | 76
Better power management, security, and scheduling in Linux kernel 6.13
But no changes to bcachefs
OSes22 Jan 2025 | 6
Linux Mint 22.1 Xia arrives fashionably late
Both the Ubuntu and Debian-based editions get Cinnamon 6.4 and other goodies
OSes20 Jan 2025 | 59
Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day
Turns out tool does both file transfers and security fixes fast
Patches17 Jan 2025 | 21
Debian 12.9 arrives, quickly followed by MX Linux 23.5
The eighth point-release of Bookworm – yes, you read that right – and the latest MX with new Xfce
OSes16 Jan 2025 | 37
WordPress drama latest: Leader Matt Mullenweg exiles five contributors
WordPress.org accounts cancelled, dissidents told to fork off
Applications14 Jan 2025 | 29
Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform
Exclusive Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy to make migration a mission
Virtualization13 Jan 2025 | 37
Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club
Right as Uncle Sam pushes for Chrome sell-off, eh?
Applications10 Jan 2025 | 14
Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL
On the Fritz: German router maker AVM lets device rights case end after coughing up source code
Software10 Jan 2025 | 41
To save the energy grid from AI, use open source AI, says open source body
Linux Foundation Energy argues rapidly decentralizing electricity sector can't succeed with silos
AI + ML09 Jan 2025 | 5
Just when you thought terminal emulators couldn't get any better, Ghostty ships
HashiCorp co-founder's side project reaches 1.0 – er, 1.0.1
Applications08 Jan 2025 | 91
Chinese RISC-V project teases 2025 debut of freely licensed advanced chip design
Third-gen Xiangshan may be close to performance of Arm’s made-for-HPC Neoverse 2
Systems08 Jan 2025 | 11
Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school migrators
New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA
Science05 Jan 2025 | 12
Honey co-founder's Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL'd uBlock Origin files
And, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution
Personal Tech04 Jan 2025 | 32
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