The folks at Nextcloud have upped their game again with this release of Nextcloud Hub 10. Most impressive are the improvements made to the platform's AI Assistant.
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Larry Cafiero is a journalist and a Free/Open Source Software advocate and is involved in several FOSS projects. Follow him on Twitter: @lcafiero
"Musk needs to be arrested with no bail until he accounts for the information that he has stolen and tells where it has been stored and located," Perez said. "Unfortunately, that is very unlikely to happen."
After Asahi Linux's founder and lead developer abruptly quit on Thursday, the project moves forward with seven developers sharing the lead role.
Lordy, lordy, lordy, FSF is turning 40. What we want to know is, how is that even possible?
Relatively unknown in the US, the European Digital Rights organization is a big deal in the EU. In this article, we look at many of the more than 50 organizations that lend their support and guidance to the organization.
This spring, the Linux kernel will begin supporting the "Copilot key" which Microsoft added to Windows machines about a year ago.
Larry the BSD Guy It’s a sad day at the FOSS Force office. Larry Cafiero says goodbye and walks off into the sunset. This weekend,…
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Should UbuntuBSD be officially tied to the Canonical family of operating systems?
Our good friends at Softpedia reported last week that the fledgling UbuntuBSD variant could be seeking the imprimatur from Canonical and become an official Ubuntu “flavor.”
Jon Boden, the lead developer of UbuntuBSD, submitted a post on the Ubuntu developers’ discussion list to let them know that he would “like to contribute all my work to Ubuntu Community and, if you think it is worthy, make ubuntuBSD an official Ubuntu project like Xubuntu or Edubuntu.”
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While the entire BSD world has been buzzing over Ubuntu’s BSD release, the FreeNAS project has been busy releasing version 9.10 as a major precursor to version 10.
Most of the attention this week has been around the release of UbuntuBSD, which in and of itself is a noble effort for those who want to escape from systemd, as the developers have dubbed it according to Phoronix. This manifestation joins Ubuntu 15.10 Wile E. Coyote — sorry, Wily Werewolf — to the Free BSD 10.1 kernel.
To its credit, UbuntuBSD uses Xfce as its default desktop. It also joins a list of other marriages between Linux distros and the BSD kernel: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, ArchBSD (now PacBSD), Gentoo/BSD and others along the FOSS highway. It’s worth a look and we’ll be giving it a test drive sometime soon.
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But for now, there’s a more interesting and significant development in the BSD realm rising on the horizon.
Larry the BSD Guy
Sometimes you have to quit cleaning your code long enough to clean your room. The people at the FreeBSD Foundation have already been doing some spring cleaning. They’ve even called the decorator.
Drumroll, maestro…
There’s a new look at the FreeBSD Foundation, with a new logo and website. The changes are intended to highlight “the ongoing evolution of the Foundation identity and ability to better serve the FreeBSD Project,” according to the post announcing the changes.
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