These are the ten most read articles on FOSS Force for the month of October, 2016. 1. We’re From Microsoft and We’ve Been Remotely Watching…
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Users of Fedora 24 might want to put any update plans on hold until this bug issue is resolved.
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A warning was published Tuesday by Adam Williamson on the Fedora website against running dnf update in a graphical environment in Fedora 24. The warning was issued after numerous users began reporting “duplicated packages” and “kernel updates not working” error messages after running the update.
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These are the ten most read articles on FOSS Force for the month of September, 2016. 1. Discord at Libreboot Over GNU Withdrawal by Christine…
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These are the ten most read articles on FOSS Force for the month of July, 2016. 1. The Windows Zealot by Ken Starks. Published July…
These are the ten most read articles on FOSS Force for the month of June, 2016. 1. Why I’m Unlikely to Ever Return Microsoft’s Love…
Phoronix, the website published by Michael Larabel and his team, is having its twelfth birthday today. And while websites can’t eat cake, the people who keep them up and running can, so we’re hoping that Larabel and his friends partake of some cake and ice cream today to celebrate all of the great work they do through the site.
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These are the ten most read articles on FOSS Force for the month of May, 2016. 1. A Truly Easy New User Linux Distro? Let’s…
A familiar face to open source conference goers, Jono Bacon has left his post as director of community at GitHub after only six months.
Jono Bacon is no longer the director of community at GitHub. We wouldn’t fret for him too much. Something tells us he’ll land on his feet.
The only thing we know for sure right now is that there seems to be a bit of a shake-up going on at the popular code repository that he’s left behind. He made the announcement Monday in a post on his blog which leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
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“Friday was my last day as a hubber,” he wrote, “and I wanted to share a few words about why I have decided to move on.”
After taking down the controversial DevShare program in early February, the new owners of popular software repository, SourceForge, have begun scanning all projects it hosts for malware in an attempt to regain trust that was lost by Dice Holdings, the site’s previous owners.
It appears as if the new owners at SourceForge are serious about fixing the mistakes made by the site’s previous owners. FOSS Force has learned that as of today, the software repository used by many free and open source projects is scanning all hosted projects for malware. Projects that don’t make the grade will be noticeably flagged with a red warning badge located beside the project’s download button.
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According to a notice posted on the SourceForge website this afternoon, the scans look for “adware, viruses, and any unwanted applications that may be intentionally or inadvertently included in the software package.” Account holders with projects flagged as containing malware will be notified by SourceForge.