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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
On Sunday, Scale made its first keynote reveal for 2023 with Arun Gupta, former CNCF chairperson, governing board member at OpenSSF, and VP and GM for Open Ecosystem at Intel. On Tuesday, Scale made its second keynote announcement: Ken Thompson, the creator of Unix and Go, will be a speaker.
India's new Android-based mobile operating system, BharOS, was publicly tested on Tuesday. It's part of a project to make India less dependent on technology developed outside the country.
Red Hat's community Fedora distribution handily wins in the reboot of our annual "Best Linux Distro" poll, followed by Pop!_OS and MX Linux. Thanks to generous contributions from All Things Open and SCALE, the winning project gets conference tickets, t-shirts, and hats!
All Thing's Open's expansion into North Carolina's largest city will be begin with a free Meetup by podcast host Mike Bifulco, and will be followed in March by this year's Open Source 101.
In the next several weeks, the preinstalled Linux computer maker, System76, will have a brand new and much improved version of its popular Pangolin laptop on its shelves and ready to ship.
The folks at OpenMandriva say that with this release, the new rolling release option, ROME, is ready enough for most use cases, although production users should wait for the "all clear."
With the release of Nitrux Linux 2.6.0, the distribution moves further from the mainstream.
This look at the open source Brave Browser is the first of five articles that FOSS Force will be running in January that will look at five web browsers that are alternatives to the dominate browsers, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. Next week we'll be taking an in-depth dive into Vivaldi.
System76 adds the availability of Intel's and AMD's latest while it's in the middle of a Halloween sale, sweetening the pot for those in the market for a high quality Linux computer.
Although Ubuntu 22.10, "Kinetic Kudu," is an interim release that will only be supported for nine months, it includes enough new features to perhaps cause some to drop the LTS they're using long enough to at least give it a try.