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Posts published by “Christine Hall”

Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux

Former Wikimedia CEO, Katherine Maher, Takes Reins at Web Summit to Do Damage Control

New CEO comes to helm as companies like Google, Meta, and TikTok pull out of the Lisbon-based mega-conference in response to accusations from the event's founder and former CEO that Israel is committing "war crimes."

Roundup: War’s Effect on Gaza Tech, Microsoft’s Howto for Installing Linux; California’s Right to Repair Law, and More

This week FOSS News Roundup also includes a list of some goodies coming to KDE Plasma 6.

Ubuntu Releases 23.10 ‘Mantic Minotaur,’ Then Makes it Unavailable

Although the "live" version Ubuntu 23.10 remains temporarily unavailable while Canonical works out problems with hate speech in the Ukrainian translation, we can tell you what you can expect when it's finally available.

Roundup: Red Hat Shuts Down Another Service, Layoffs at Brave Browser, and More…

Also included in this week’s FOSS Week in Review: OpenPubkey goes to Linux Foundation, Adding vector support to MySQL for AI, and the results of last weeks rolling release poll.

Celebrating “All Things Open’s” First Ten Years in Ten Days

Has it really been 11 years since All Things Open first opened its doors, which made Raleigh, North Carolina the home for what's become one of the most vital open-source events on the planet? Indeed it has, and during the next ten days we're going to take a look at each and every year's All Things Open.

RMS’s Cancer, Linux’s Shrinking Support, Goog’s ‘Privacy Sandbox’, Naming OpenSUSE, and More

Also included in this week's FOSS Week in Review: Gnome's new due date, readers say Red Hat's changed for the worse under IBM, and a new poll asks how you like your distros released.

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