What is Google doing with its open source teams? Opinion Nothing good – the recent layoffs hit its best and brightest leaders hard Software27 Jan 2023 | 20
Sorry seems to be tech execs' favorite word as DB player Aiven lays off 1 in 5 Finnish open source biz joins elite in correcting pandemic hiring frenzy Databases23 Jan 2023 | 3
For password protection, dump LastPass for open source Bitwarden Opinion After the security breach last summer, staying put is playing with fire Cyber-crime16 Jan 2023 | 131
Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name Open source org called out for ignoring own code of conduct Software11 Jan 2023 | 279
Haiku beta 4: BeOS rebuild / almost ready for release / A thing of beauty Open source reimplementation could be even better than the original in its prime OSes11 Jan 2023 | 120
Debian-based siduction gains snapshots, new recovery tools and more Where you want to be for the latest and greatest, but not for the faint of heart OSes05 Jan 2023 | 9
Calculate Linux: It's like Gentoo, but for businesses Russian distro transforms source-based rolling release into stable, versioned product… theoretically OSes04 Jan 2023 | 10
PyTorch dependency poisoned with malicious code System data was exfiltrated during attack, but an anonymous person says it was a research project gone wrong Security04 Jan 2023 | 22
Vanilla OS 22.10: An Arch and Fedora-compatible Ubuntu Despite its name and looks, this is quite the radical departure for a Linux distro OSes03 Jan 2023 | 17
Should open source sniff the geopolitical wind and ban itself in China and Russia? Opinion Can it even do that? And does FOSS deserve an exemption to sanctions? Software01 Jan 2023 | 213
What's in Santa's sack? New Linux Mint, EndeavourOS and postmarketOS updates A last-minute dose of festive FOSS freshness OSes21 Dec 2022 | 12
Malicious PyPI package found posing as a SentinelOne SDK Security firm tagged with malware misrepresentation Security21 Dec 2022 | 8
Pine64 takes another shot at an open tablet after chip shortages killed first PineTab Updates for multiple devices including PinePhone Pro and keyboard incoming Personal Tech21 Dec 2022 | 15
SystemRescue 9.06 is here with the shiny new Xfce 4.18 It also boasts MemTest86+ 6, which now can boot and run on UEFI machines OSes20 Dec 2022 | 29
GCC 13 to support Modula-2: Follow-up to Pascal lives on in FOSS form Niklaus Wirth's lesser known programming language still kicking around Software16 Dec 2022 | 49
Need a video editor, FOSS fans? OpenShot and Kdenlive both refreshed Cross-platform so you can run it on a Windows box, too Applications15 Dec 2022 | 43
Google debuts OSV-Scanner – a Go tool for finding security holes in open source Witness the awesome power of this somewhat operational bug-buster Devops15 Dec 2022 | 7
You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108 Don't worry, there are some other improvements thrown in too Software14 Dec 2022 | 35
NixOS 22.11 'Raccoon': Like a proof of concept you can do things with Another Linux OS – but this time it's all about the software packaging OSes13 Dec 2022 | 15
Brit chip company picks RISC-V for next-gen microcontrollers RISC-V Summit Fabless maker goes for open-source chip architecture, with actual chips schedueld to ship late 2023 Systems12 Dec 2022 | 31
Desktop OpenSolaris fork OpenIndiana shoots fresh version – Hipster Latest offshoot of Illumos project continues development of FOSS version of Solaris OSes07 Dec 2022 | 10
Linux 6.1 gets an eighth release candidate and Linus Torvalds is OK with that Kernel devs offer emperor penguin early gifts of code for version 6.2 OSes05 Dec 2022 |
openSUSE makes baseline CPU requirements a little friendlier than feared Tumbleweed rolling-release distro to need v2 of x86-64 – and drop x86-32 edition OSes30 Nov 2022 | 20
Redox OS version 0.8 is both strange and very familiar 'Experimental operating system' it may be, but it's still Unix/Linux-like OSes29 Nov 2022 | 41
Still using a discontinued Boa web server? Microsoft warns of supply chain attacks Flaws in the open-source tool exploited – and India's power grid was a target Research23 Nov 2022 | 10
Open source community split over offer of 'corporate' welfare for critical dev tools Special report Linux Foundation presents IT and help to key volunteers – and some wonder if this is a deal with the Devil Software16 Nov 2022 | 20
GitHub sets up private vulnerability reports for public repos to avoid 'naming and shaming' No need for ignominy when a flaw is found Security14 Nov 2022 | 5
Twitter is suffering from mad bro disease. Open thinking can build it back better Opinion We must immunize the Mastodon Personal Tech14 Nov 2022 | 199
Mozilla Foundation launches ethical venture capital fund An unexpected move, but we suspect that Carl Sagan might have approved Software04 Nov 2022 | 6
Nitrux 2.5: The latest update to a radical Linux Also one of the first distros we've seen with Kernel 6.0 OSes03 Nov 2022 | 18
Version 252 of systemd, as expected, locks down the Linux boot process The init system that everybody loves to hate OSes03 Nov 2022 | 170
9front releases new version of Plan 9 OS fork: The Golden Age of Ballooning Prepare to be confused OSes02 Nov 2022 | 12
Zorin OS 16.2: Shapeshifting desktop to help the Linux-wary feel more at home Pining for Windows XP? Update to the last major release can do that OSes02 Nov 2022 | 15
Linux Lite 6.2: Latest release from distro with a misleading name One of the more popular Ubuntu-based flavors for new migrants from Windows OSes01 Nov 2022 | 22
Google kills forthcoming JPEG XL image format in Chromium And just for balance nixes version 2 of its own format, WebP, as well Software31 Oct 2022 | 65
KDE 5.26 gets a second point release (yes, already) It's worth it, though. And it's easy to install the latest KDE on the latest Kubuntu OSes27 Oct 2022 | 16
Microsoft's Lennart Poettering proposes tightening up Linux boot process Building your own initial RAMdisk? That's insecure! OSes26 Oct 2022 | 187
Teen dream team reboots Rolling Rhino into Rhino Linux Well, these distros are all about continual reinvention, after all OSes26 Oct 2022 | 5
Update time for Ubuntu: Last version of Linux kernel 5.19.17 hits Only just installed? You may need another upgrade all the same OSes25 Oct 2022 |
Lash#Cat9: A radical new Linux UI for keyboard warriors Comment Arcan sub-project reinvents command lines and GUIs at once Software25 Oct 2022 | 73
Ubuntu 22.10 is out, with an extra remix in the family: Unity Linux wunderkind's project now an official flavor as 'Kinetic Kudu' brings nine months of updates OSes20 Oct 2022 | 26
FOSS digital audio workstation Ardour reaches version 7 An open source rival to Ableton OSes18 Oct 2022 | 4
Zinc: An Ubuntu remix that dares to be different Impressive distro is somewhere between a tech demo and a power user's tool OSes13 Oct 2022 | 14
Oracle VirtualBox 7.0 is here – just watch out for the proprietary Extension Pack Latest version of FOSS hypervisor boasts support for new 3D acceleration tech and encrypted virtual machines Virtualization11 Oct 2022 | 37
Plop. That's the sound of a boot manager booting PCs off media they can't start from Friday Freeware Fest … Including virtual machines as well as physical ones OSes07 Oct 2022 | 23
Canonical makes Ubuntu Pro free for up to five machines Kernel live-patching and a full decade of software updates OSes06 Oct 2022 | 3
OpenStack ends requirement for six-monthly upgrades with ‘SLURP’ plan As version ‘Zed’ debuts, project slows down a little Software06 Oct 2022 |
IceWM reaches version 3 after a mere 25 years And it's not the only venerable window manager still in development Applications05 Oct 2022 | 28
VideoLAN to India: If you love FOSS so much, why have you blocked our downloads? Activists help pen letter to New Delhi demanding answers Software05 Oct 2022 | 10
You thought you bought software – all you bought was a lie Comment Isn't code something worth paying for? Well, frankly, no Software04 Oct 2022 | 216
Big changes coming in Debian 12: Some parts won't be FOSS Vote result good news for new users, but might be bad for remixes OSes03 Oct 2022 | 27
OpenAI opens doors to DALL-E after the horse has bolted to Midjourney and others Ironic that an ML lab with so many accelerators is such a slowpoke AI + ML29 Sep 2022 | 7
Late but lustrous, a fresh remix of Ubuntu emerges UbuntuDDE 22.04 is colorful, and with slightly less Chinese flavor than Ubuntu Kylin OSes28 Sep 2022 | 10
Removing an obsolete AMD fix makes Linux kernel 6 quicker Performance-killing workaround rediscovered after 20 years OSes27 Sep 2022 | 80
Is it a bird? Is it Microsoft Office? No, it's Onlyoffice: Version 7.2 released The other open-source productivity suite gets a version bump Applications27 Sep 2022 | 69
Serious surfer? How to browse like a pro on Firefox Mozilla may seem like it has forgotten, but this is the most customizable browser going Software26 Sep 2022 | 96
Linux Foundation launches European division Open Source Summit Plans to drive more open source – and more transparency – into public sector Software20 Sep 2022 | 9
Document Foundation starts charging €8.99 for 'free' LibreOffice Only in the Mac App Store, as part of FOSS-for-biz strategy software org admits may not quickly deliver results Applications20 Sep 2022 | 96
Open standards body for digital wallets announced Open Source Summit No, not the dodgy cryptocurrency kind Off-Prem16 Sep 2022 | 5
Food security group, Linux Foundation working on crop data standard 'Sharing of agricultural data can help develop solutions to some of the food system's most pressing challenges' Software15 Sep 2022 | 9
Nearly one in two industry pros scaled back open source use over security fears Log4j being the main driver, this data science poll claims Security14 Sep 2022 | 17