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.
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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
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.
AlmaLinux is turning into the RHEL clone with a difference, by patching RHEL security holes that are given a low priority by Red Hat.
Cory Doctorow will be playing emcee, and writer and security expert Tarah Wheeler will be offering last minute down-and-dirty tips on how to play the game. Have fun; maybe win a little money; maybe lose some. It's for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a good cause that benefits us all.
The Free Software Foundation might be getting itself back on track as the radical watchdog for copyleft and free software with the appointment of free software activist and pioneer John Gilmore to its board of directors.
Although Sunday will be the last day that CentOS 7 will be officially supported, you don't have to move to something else right away. There are plenty of support services you can use to keep your workloads safe and secure until you're ready to migrate.
In a move towards self-improvement, the creator of ReiserFS and a current resident at California's Soledad prison, asked for a change to be made in the software's README file before support for the software is removed from Linux next year. A Linux kernel programmer honored the request.
If you're still running CentOS 6, you know for a fact that you need to get to another operating system pronto. The folks CloudLinux/AlmaLinux know this, and have made changes to their open-source lift-and-shift tool, ELevate, so that you can now easily move from CentOS 6 to land on the latest version of just about any RHEL look-alike that you want.