Debian has gotten some good press thanks to Federico Vaga and Nikos Tsipinakis, who presented a talk at MiniDebConf Winterthur this past weekend. The two CERN engineers laid out why the organization is moving its particle accelerator control computers onto Debian 13,
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Gaming on Linux keeps getting better, Wine and the Proton compatibility layer keep opening up more of the Windows catalog, and community projects continue filling the gaps that big publishers leave behind. Take Xodus, for instance. The open source effort is looking
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My history with Vanilla OS goes back to 2022, when I covered its debut stable release, just a month after I landed this gig at It’s FOSS (yapping about open source and Linux). Since then, my focus has moved to other distros
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Auke Kok spent eight years working on Clear Linux OS at Intel. Now he thinks he knows exactly what broke it, and he’s trying to fix that by himself. In a LinkedIn post this week, Auke, now a Linux Distribution Architect at
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In a very low-key manner, Firefox 155 has arrived as the latest stable release for the popular privacy-focused web browser. While there are a range of refinements with this release, we will be focusing on two technical ones that change how Firefox
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Zack Bartel is a developer who switched to Linux full time and hasn’t really looked back at his earlier daily driver, macOS, as something he would return to. There is, however, an exception. Continuity. That is Apple’s catch-all term for how iPhone,
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If the past few weeks are any indication, more and more open source projects are drawing lines around how much AI they will let into their workflow and codebases before it’s too much. Debian just voted to allow generative AI in project
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Debian has now officially voted to allow the use of generative AI in project contributions. And as you can expect, such a decision doesn’t go well with everyone. There are people who are indifferent to the decision, and then there are people
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TDF and Collabora have been at odds since April, when TDF’s Membership Committee kicked out every Collabora staffer and partner in one move, with more than 30 people dropped. That didn’t stop Collabora from shipping a range of new releases, with Collabora
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Multikernel Technologies has put out mklinux v7.0-mk2, the first public release of the multikernel Linux tree it’s been building since last year. The basic premise of the project is that one physical server can run several independent Linux kernels side by side,
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