About a month after Canonical pulled LXD from Linux Containers, with the 'LXD community experiment' evidently being labeled internally as a 'failure' by Ubuntu, the code is forked and almost immediately accepted as a project at Linux Containers.
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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
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.
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.
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.