In the age of computers, 30 is a ripe old age. Happy birthday, Debian.
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"I wanted to know about how the folks at Alma felt about the recently formed cartel that includes never to be trusted Oracle; SUSE, which is recovering from a case of Stockholm syndrome that was brought about by several decades of abuse by Novell and the other owners that followed; and Kurtzer's Rocky Linux, which might be a fox or might be a lamb, I haven't yet decided."
In this week's news roundup we look at the release of three Linux-based operating systems -- one focused on privacy, one on the desktop, and the third for going mobile.
About a month after Canonical pulled LXD from Linux Containers, with the 'LXD community experiment' evidently being labeled internally as a 'failure' by Ubuntu, the code is forked and almost immediately accepted as a project at Linux Containers.
In this week's news roundup, our Christine Hall tells you what she thinks has gone wrong at Red Hat, and again tries to wrestle Elon Musk to the floor. In between, she covers some more of this week's FOSS news.
With Red Hat helping Asahi Linux develop software for porting Linux to run on Apple's Arm silicon, how long before Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports Apple hardware?
Friday saw the first new version in two-and-a-half years of GnuCOBOL, and on Sunday, a new version of the venerable Emacs was announced.
Wong tells a story of burnout caused by understaffing, which is similar to what we've heard from other important but under-the-radar projects.
4MLinux 43.0 is available. A new version of a utility distro that focuses on server, multimedia, system rescue, and games. There’s a new 4MLinux in…
Released last week, Zorin 16.3 has two paid Pro editions, two free editions for everyday Linux users, and two educational editions.