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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
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.
Uptime Institute's survey shows that corporations are taking a hybrid approach, but that on-premises data centers remain the mission critical centerpiece of their IT environment. Following on-prem in importance are colocation facilities and public cloud.
The percentage of outages caused by cooling issues is expected to rise as server density increases.
On August 30, 2024 the Free Software Foundation will close its office for the last time as the organization goes all remote.
Data center operators recognize that AI is the future, but also recognize that the future won't arrive until the present is past.
What Microsoft’s Borking of Grub Says About Redmond’s ‘Love’ of Linux
Business, Commentary and Operating Systems
Windows might not rule the day at Microsoft anymore, but it's still a moneymaker and desktop Linux is still the competition.