Our delve into the numbers presented by Distrowatch indicate that although there have been some notable changes over the last serveral years, the Linux ecosphere is mostly stable from a distro perspective.
Posts published by “Bruce Byfield”
Bruce Byfield has been involved in FOSS since 1999. He has published more than 2000 articles, and is the writer of "Designing with LibreOffice," which is available as a free download here.
Although the numerous approaches to open source sometimes seem at odds with each other, users and developers of open source software -- whether licensed "copyleft" or "permissive" -- are travelling similar roads.
With Stallman's recent exit from the FSF, has the time come to put ideological correctness aside and just let Linux be Linux?
Even if you're a liberal arts major with no background in technology or science, using Linux and other free software can empower you to take control of your computing environments.
Is it time for the Free Software Foundation to consider some new directions for the free software movement in the post-Stallman era?
Although the consensus seems to be that it was time for the founder of the GNU project and the Free Software movement to step down, we shouldn't forget his many contributions aimed at keeping tech free.
The last decade or so has seen Debian largely repositioned as an upstream distribution, making it an essential component of the desktop Linux infrastructure. Does your distro have "Debian Inside"?
Since the demise of Geek Feminism and the Ada Initiative, who's supporting efforts to progress women's rights in the open source community?
As open source hardware becomes a real thing, companies work to redesign the keyboard from the ground up using open designs.
Although changes made to Linux desktop environments over the last decade have given innovation a bad name, some, like KDE's Activities, show promise.
The user revolts against KDE 4, GNOME 3, and Unity have left desktop Linux developers with a fear of innovation, exactly when that's what's needed.