Himelstein will not be replaced by another CTO. RISC-V International is currently looking for a VP of technology, which will be their highest ranking technology officer going forward.
FOSS Force
Another fork of Redis has arrived, and this one might end up making the Redis suits wish they had never even considered abandoning open-source. It has the support of The Linux Foundation, big tech, and many of the project's long-time contributors.
Redis is only the last in a line of companies that have lately dropped open-source licenses in favor of proprietary open-source lookalike licenses. In this case, a fork has already happened that just might end up being real competition for Redis.
A few weeks ago the Kubernetes-helper SaaS platform Acorn Runtime was happily in beta, and was set to go GA in the near future. Now, the platform is in mothballs and Acorn Labs is betting its future on GPTScript, an open-source scripting language for generative AI.
Are you a Fedora user or contributor? Would you like to give a talk at this year's Flock to Fedora which will happen in early August in Rochester, New York? Submissions are being accepted between now and late April -- and we'll tell you how to apply.
Time to put on your birthday hat and sing Happy Birthday. Today the AlmaLinux OS Foundation turns three!
Acorn Labs CEO announces that the company is suddenly dropping its flagship product to focus on GPTScript, an AI scripting language.
Oregon's "right to repair" bill, which now only needs the governor's signature before it becomes law, has teeth not found in similar legislation from other states.
While the alpha release of the new scratch-built-in-Rust Cosmic desktop has been pushed back by a couple of months, that's not expected to delay the launch of the production ready version that will be the default DE in Pop!_OS 24.04 later this year.
If you think it's no fun being a Facebook user today, just thank you're stars that your not technical staff at Meta.
An article in which we ponder desktop Linux's rising usage numbers, and debate ChromeOS's status as a Linux operating system.