1+ week, 1+ day ago  (749+ words) Politics and coding don't mix. Actually, since some people make the case that everything is political, perhaps I should reframe that: most of us don't want partisan fights mixed into coding " or any other activities that need us to play well…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (541+ words) Drat! Something else I've been meaning to try has been taken off my list. The calendar app " some call it a scheduling app " Cal. com announced on Tuesday that after five years it's dropping open source licensing and going forward…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (657+ words) This week we thought we'd let our hair down " what little there is of it, for me anyway " and have a little fun. We're test-driving Fun OS, a lightweight Linux distribution based on the latest Ubuntu LTS, but with Ubuntu's…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1009+ words) Rofi is a handy little Linux keyboard launcher. Any chance I can get to make Linux a bit more efficient, I'm going to take it. Sometimes that's simply a matter of configurations, while other times it requires the installation of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (418+ words) It appears that Anthropic isn't just willing to go eye-to-eye with the US military, it's also willing to throw some bucks into the kitty to support open source. On Tuesday, the Apache Software Foundation announced that Anthropic, the AI company…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (337+ words) Open Invention Network, the organization that seeks to protect Linux and related software from patent aggressors, announced on Tuesday that it's created a new position that's being filled by Shane Coughlan. The new position is "global ambassador," which the announcement…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (332+ words) Are you a Fedora user? If so, would you want to help the project prepare for the release of Fedora 44, which is scheduled to roll out the door on April 14. This would get you a little time with the new…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (446+ words) Just in time for Saint Paddy's day, Alma Linux announced on Tuesday that Alma Linux OS Kitten 10 is now available for the RISC-V architecture. This is far from the first Linux distribution to support the open source instruction set architecture....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (466+ words) System76, the "made in the USA" computer company out of Denver that specializes in hardware pre-installed with Linux, has announced a complete redesign of Thelio Mira. It's now positioned as the "professional" desktop sitting above Thelio Prime, topping its Thelio desktop…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (473+ words) You might remember that we told you last May about a tech preview of a project CIQ was calling Rocky Linux from CIQ AI. It now looks like that project has finally reached general availability. Today CIQ announced the launch…...