Friday saw the first new version in two-and-a-half years of GnuCOBOL, and on Sunday, a new version of the venerable Emacs was announced.
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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
Wong tells a story of burnout caused by understaffing, which is similar to what we've heard from other important but under-the-radar projects.
Released last week, Zorin 16.3 has two paid Pro editions, two free editions for everyday Linux users, and two educational editions.
Be nice to your SysAdmin, SEC makes rules for reporting cyber attacks, and Musk purloins a user's $40,000 Twitter X handle.
A Mastodon server that focuses on left-leaning political activists, recently had an unencrypted copy of its database confiscated by the FBI.
In this week's column we wish Slackware a happy 30th birthday, look forward to the soon to be landing Mageia 9, and get the bugs out of LibreOffice 7.5.5.
A large number of open-source organizations are saying that if this act is enacted into law, it will do damage to open-source, both in Europe and globally.
With Ikey Doherty again taking a central role within the Solus Project, it's a fair question to ask how long he will stay before abandoning Solus for the third time.
On Sunday Linux Mint announced the release of Linux Mint 21.2 across all three of its mainstream editions. Like other releases in the 21.x series, this release will be supported until 2027.
After seven years, we're reviving our Friday FOSS Week in Review column. This week we're covering Istio's graduation at CNCF, Oracle's attempt to take the moral high ground against Red Hat, and Elon Musk's latest adventure.