The last year or so was already a wild ride for the open source instruction set architecture RISC-V, then Intel stepped in, took a top tier membership, a seat on the board, pledged to spend a billion dollars on the architecture, and began partnering with key RISC-V vendors.
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We wonder what the crew from the Enterprise would think of 21st century Earthlings giving up Gnome, KDE, or Xfice for the official desktop environment of Star Fleet.
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Until now the AlmaLinux OS Foundation has been operating with a board of directors that was fully appointed. That's getting ready to change with an election that's getting ready to happen.
With SCaLE getting ready to celebrate its 20th birthday in a few weeks, we decided to take a deep delve into one of the best known community-focused Linux conferences.
The banks foot the bill for the platform, which keeps detailed eyes on a vendor's financials to satisfy regulatory requirements. Bank customers involved in the legal cannabis business get access for free.
Rocky Linux, a Linux distribution intended to be a drop in replacement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has released version 8.6, which puts it on par with the latest and greatest from Red Hat.
The 48 hour turnaround is looking like the norm for AlmaLinux, a feature-by-feature clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
According to Red Hat's CEO, pandemic caused logistical changes such as remote working were already a part of the open source ecosystem, which has helped put FOSS further ahead of the curve moving forward.
Friday's beta release of AlmaLinux 8.6 means the project is currently actively working on two separate versions of its RHEL clone.
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