Two months after Holly Million tendered her resignation -- and a month-and-a-half after leaving -- the financially strapped Gnome Foundation announces that the search is on for a new executive director.
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A new SIG now helps server manufacturers certify that their hardware works as it should on AlmaLinux, and will soon do the same for software vendors.
Bluesky, which runs on open source software and is based on an open protocol for social platforms, has lately seen it's user base take a 10-fold increase as Brazil shutters TwitterX.
If you have to do research online you might want to bookmark this set of online tools that make exploring Mastodon's federated world easy.
As you might expect from the folks at the eFoundation, the new Parental Controls do a better job of protecting child users than the controls that Google ships with Android.
Rather than handing more censorship powers to moderators, Bluesky devs are looking to make design changes to encourage its users to be civil.
The FreeBSD Foundation will organize and manage the projects that STF is funding, which mainly focuses on security.
Among other things, this newest version of LibreOffice will let you choose whether to allow or disallow a hyphen at the end of the last line on a page.
Natron Energy's sodium-ion batteries are non-flammable and have more energy density than lithium-ion batteries. Right now, they're primarily being used as emergency backup in data centers, but expect to see them powering EVs soon.
What Microsoft’s Borking of Grub Says About Redmond’s ‘Love’ of Linux
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Windows might not rule the day at Microsoft anymore, but it's still a moneymaker and desktop Linux is still the competition.