According to a new survey, Oracle's been bleeding Java JDK customers since it got greedy with its pricing in 2023.
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
Does Wayland becoming the defacto standard display server for Linux serve to marginalize BSD?
We're probably not going to find a solution to mass data mining by advertisers and others, as long as privacy issues are handled in a siloed manner by the individual platforms.
We can file this as a plug if we wish, Christine said. "I'm basically writing it because… well, you can color me impressed by an Enterprise Linux distribution that listens to its users and is quick to action. That's a little old fashioned for the digital age, isn't it?" We're filing it as an interesting trip down the rabbit hole that's Christine's mind.
According to Dell'Oro's report, CoolIT Systems, Boyd, and Motivair were the top three earners in the Data Center Liquid Cooling arena in 2023.
Maybe it's just an oversight, but the European Commission's draft of projects for next year fails to mention the NGI Zero Commons Fund, an important source of funding for FOSS projects.
Would openSUSE by any other name still have Tumbleweed and Leap? We've looked at the openSUSE name-change controversy and have decided there's nothing to see here -- move on.
People close to GitLab have told Reuters that the DevOps pipeline service is looking for a buyer and that cloud monitoring company Datadog is expressing an interest.
It's become clear to many that Red Hat's recent missteps with CentOS and the availability of RHEL source code indicate that it's fallen from its respected place as "the open organization." SUSE seems to be poised to benefit from Red Hat's errors. We connect the dots.
Professional shaman Holly Million, who became Gnome's executive director in October, has evidently participated in a banishing ritual and will disappear from Gnome at the end of this month.
For Good Reason, Apache Foundation Says ‘Goodbye’ to Iconic Feather Logo
Commentary, Community, News Analysis and Organizations
The Apache Software Foundation is making changes in an attempt to right a wrong it unintentionally created when it adopted its name 25-years ago.