With the generation that founded the free software and FOSS movements rapidly aging, the push is on by FOSSDA to collect open sources oral history, straight from the mouths that made it.
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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
In January, FOSS Force's Christine Hall was the guest on Doc Searls' FLOSS Weekly podcast. Here's what she learned from that appearance.
There are something like 300 Linux distributions. Thankfully, the list of Linux desktop environments is much shorter, but there are still plenty.
Somebody should make a movie of this story, with Red Hat as the damsel who finds her power, and Oracle cast as the volatile leading…
The Open Source Initiative is planning on making a few changes to how they do things. They think they've got it figured out, but first they want to know what you think.
A free webinar being presented this week by Social Movement Technologies might be just the thing for disgruntled Twitter users making the move to Mastodon.
While content moderation on Mastodon is far from perfect, it may be miles ahead of what's in second place.
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.