Ubuntu unleashes Mantic Minotaur with 23.10 build The bull has escaped Minos' labyrinth, and El Reg follows the thread Software14 Oct 2023 | 7
Squid games: 35 security holes still unpatched in proxy after 2 years, now public We'd like to say don't panic … but maybe? Research13 Oct 2023 | 9
curl vulnerabilities ironed out with patches after week-long tease Updated The coordinated disclosure didn’t quite go to plan, though Patches11 Oct 2023 | 16
Apple antique aficionados can boot to the future with OpenCore Legacy Patcher FOSS Fest Hackintoshing reaches a wider audience – owners of older Macs OSes09 Oct 2023 | 19
After a clean and inclusive Ubuntu-based desktop? Elementary, dear user iPadOS-like distro reaches 7.1 and talks to you on installation OSes05 Oct 2023 | 6
Mint freshens up its Linux garden for Ubuntu and Debian fans One version's edgier than the other OSes04 Oct 2023 | 27
If you want to fund open source code via Patreon with GitHub, well now you can Exploited open source maintainers get broader payment pleading options Devops03 Oct 2023 | 4
openSUSE offers Slowroll distro for those scared by the speed of Tumbleweed Keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' OSes02 Oct 2023 | 8
Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google's weird neighbor Comment Can the sleeping fox ever wake up? Personal Tech29 Sep 2023 | 110
Ubuntu and Fedora clash in beta race, but who wears GNOME better? Big two corporate-backed free distros are nearly ready for their close-ups OSes27 Sep 2023 | 13
Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more Open Source Summit Mozilla gave it the boot, but the Linux Foundation Europe gave it the kiss of life instead Software27 Sep 2023 | 10
Long-term support for Linux kernels is about to get a lot shorter Open Source Summit Despite the OS's success, maintainers are short-staffed and under-appreciated OSes26 Sep 2023 | 47
Mastodon makes a major move amid Musk's multiple messes Federated social network adds n00b-friendly features to the 'Fediverse' Software22 Sep 2023 | 48
GNU turns 40: Stallman's baby still not ready for prime time, but hey, there's cake It turned the software industry upside down regardless Applications20 Sep 2023 | 85
NASA wants to believe ... that you can help it crack UFO mysteries Is there nothing crowdsourcing and open source phone apps can't solve? Offbeat14 Sep 2023 | 29
Google outlines Outline SDK: Censorship, geo-block-beating tool to drop into apps Well, when it's finished, anyway Networks14 Sep 2023 | 3
NixCon drops Palmer Luckey's AI combat drone maker Anduril as sponsor due to military ties NixOS event organizers say community unhappy about funding from Pentagon contractor AI + ML08 Sep 2023 | 8
Linux distros drop their feelgood hits of the summer A quiet period for the IT industry is a good time to rebuild and refresh, apparently OSes07 Sep 2023 | 12
The world seems so loopy. But at least someone's written a memory-safe sudo in Rust Turns out we can have nice things? Software02 Sep 2023 | 141
antiX 23: Anarchic for sure, but 'design by committee' isn't always the best for Linux Still, it's blisteringly fast and systemd-free too OSes01 Sep 2023 | 58
Chinese vendor apologizes for claiming Microsoft open source code was its own product CEC-IDE is re-skinned Visual Studio Code with added censorware to spot terms like ‘Taiwan Independence’ Software31 Aug 2023 | 15
FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds On AWS Firecracker – but there are other new micro-VM engines around, too Applications29 Aug 2023 | 80
OpenTF forks Terraform, insists HashiCorp is the splinter group Dude, stop hitting yourself Devops28 Aug 2023 | 13
Amazon Linux 2023 virtual machine images still MIA Enterprise Linux users question web giant's commitment to hybrid cloud Cloud Infrastructure Week25 Aug 2023 | 13
Bodhi Linux 7 brings Enlightenment to Ubuntu With a choice of kernel versions, and even a 32-bit edition OSes25 Aug 2023 | 47
Big Tech pumps $235M into AI model depot Hugging Face Upstart now valued at $4B after Salesforce, Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and pals dish out dosh AI + ML24 Aug 2023 |
Rocky Linux backer CIQ rejects lawsuit's claims it was founded on stolen IP Brands allegations as 'meritless' after being sued by HPC software provider Sylabs HPC24 Aug 2023 | 11
Xebian is the Marie Kondo of Linux distros – it's here to declutter Clean, simple, quick, and an example of how less can give you more OSes24 Aug 2023 | 19
G20 digital ministers sign up for Digital Public Infrastructure push They've also thought of the children, and the poor SMEs trying to stay secure Software21 Aug 2023 | 3
A license to trust: Can you rely on 'open source' companies? Opinion Sometimes nothing fails like success OSes18 Aug 2023 | 27
SUSE to flip back into private ownership after just two-and-a-bit years Buyout offer is at €16 per share, compared to €30 at its 2021 IPO Software18 Aug 2023 | 16
India's digital public goods diplomacy scores wins around the world France likes its payment system, Saudi Arabia is close to co-operating, and the Caribbean is calling Software18 Aug 2023 | 6
30 years on, Debian is at the heart of the world's most successful Linux distros August 16 was an especially big day for this island of stability OSes17 Aug 2023 | 89
OpenZFS 2.2 is nearly here, and ZFSBootMenu 2.2 already is A menu-driven, snapshot-enabled bootloader for Linux with root on ZFS Storage16 Aug 2023 | 18
Not call: Open source gurus urge you to dump Zoom In footsteps of GiveUpGitHub, campaign follows AI ToS fiasco Software15 Aug 2023 | 70
Veilid: A secure peer-to-peer network for apps that flips off the surveillance economy DEF CON ‘It’s like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing’ Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2023 | 35
HashiCorp's new license is still open source-ish, just with less free lunch Software house transitions to BSL, and fundies are furious Software11 Aug 2023 | 23
Linux project's first full version has all the subtlety of a Rhino in a China shop An option if Ubuntu interim releases are too slow, easy and stable for your liking OSes11 Aug 2023 | 5
GNOME 45 beta: Less buggy, more colorful, and still not your grandma's desktop Codenamed Riga after the venue for this year's GUADEC conference OSes10 Aug 2023 | 20
India launches contest to build homegrown web browser Almost certainly based on a FOSS engine, but with tweaks for the nation's particular needs Software10 Aug 2023 | 21
Lacros rescues Chromebooks by extending their lifespans 'Play sports and live longer' apparently now applies to ChromeOS as well as sedentary geeks Software03 Aug 2023 | 32
Middleweight champ MX Linux 23 delivers knockout punch Debian 12-based version should be your first choice for a non-systemd distro OSes03 Aug 2023 | 77
Soft-reboot in systemd 254 sounds a lot like Windows' Fast Startup Where does Agent P work again? OSes02 Aug 2023 | 128
Creator of the Unix Sysadmin Song explains he just wanted to liven up a textbook When you get to Chapter 15 of a Unix book you're ready for a laugh Sysadmin Month28 Jul 2023 | 18
OctoX is a radical Rust implementation of a very old OS for RISC-V There's still life in the wider Version 6 Unix family – and 9front too OSes28 Jul 2023 | 19
Slackware wasn't the first Linux distro, but it's the oldest still alive and kicking Who needs a graphical desktop manager anyway? OSes20 Jul 2023 | 58
Mint 21.2 is desktop Linux without the faff Nifty new features mostly go to Cinnamon users, though OSes19 Jul 2023 | 83
Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market Opinion It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't OSes18 Jul 2023 | 239
AlmaLinux project climbs down from being a one-to-one RHEL clone Comment A worrying concession means that the shape of the marketplace is changing OSes17 Jul 2023 | 47
Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux May be about to join systemd as the new tech for graybeards to scorn... but adopt anyway OSes13 Jul 2023 | 120
China's openKylin 1.0 arrives. Our verdict? Not a bad-looking, er, Ubuntu remix It's certainly not the country's 'first homegrown open source desktop operating system' OSes07 Jul 2023 | 17
Red Hat's open source rot took root when IBM walked in Opinion Big Blue's top brass either don't get it or don't care OSes07 Jul 2023 | 115
Rocky Linux details the loopholes that will help its RHEL rebuild live on When you're on the wrong side of Red Hat, these could be subject to change OSes04 Jul 2023 | 95
Linux Mint cuts slice of 'Victoria' as 21.2 beta lands with dash of fresh Cinnamon Desktop Ubuntu, but without the nonsense OSes29 Jun 2023 | 51
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds OSes28 Jun 2023 | 221
Linux 6.4 debuts after literally unremarkable development push Latest cut of the kernel gets RISC-ier, moves towards Wi-Fi 7, ejects PCMCIA cards OSes26 Jun 2023 | 9
Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI Opinion Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does Sysadmin Month23 Jun 2023 | 92
US government extends software security deadline because vendors aren't ready This from the Administration that made infosec a priority Software13 Jun 2023 | 4
Google snubbed JPEG XL so of course Apple now supports it in Safari Chocolate Factory under pressure to reverse decision to abandon image format Applications07 Jun 2023 | 54
Oh Snap... Desktop Ubuntu Core to arrive in 2024 Changes are happening in Fedora and openSUSE immutable distros, too OSes06 Jun 2023 | 65