AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change' Interview Apache Foundation president David Nalley on Amazon Linux 2023, Free software, and more PaaS + IaaS04 Dec 2023 | 23
EU lawmakers finalize cyber security rules that panicked open source devs Infosec in brief PLUS: Montana TikTok ban ruled unconstitutional; Dollar Tree employee data stolen; critical vulnerabilities Security04 Dec 2023 | 17
Cinnamon and KDE sync version numbers in desktop sibling rivalry Expect the former in a Linux Mint point release later this year OSes01 Dec 2023 | 9
Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org Firefox 121, freshly in beta test, will default to the protocol too OSes29 Nov 2023 | 49
Microsoft opens sources ThreadX under MIT license The 'Azure RTOS' used in millions of Raspberry Pis is now FOSS OSes28 Nov 2023 | 22
Trio of major holes in ownCloud expose admin passwords, allow unauthenticated file mods Mitigations require mix of updating libraries and manual customer action Patches27 Nov 2023 | 8
Data-destroying defect found after OpenZFS 2.2.0 release Updated Earlier and later versions may be affected – worth your while reading the advisories OSes27 Nov 2023 | 32
FFmpeg 6.1 drops a Heaviside dose of codec magic You may never have heard of it, but you almost certainly use it, possibly many times a day Software24 Nov 2023 | 49
India diplomatically debuts digital public infrastructure repository with international contributions Russia's Unified Digital Platform could be yours, along with many other less controversial projects Software23 Nov 2023 |
Xen Project improves the art of virtual machine maintenance with annual hypervisor release Version 4.18 brings first ports to RISC-V and PowerPC, support for next-gen datacenter CPUs Virtualization20 Nov 2023 |
Canonical shows how to use Snaps without the Snap Store Ubuntu Summit Despite what you may have heard, it's not as proprietary as the trolls think OSes10 Nov 2023 | 73
GhostBSD makes FreeBSD a little less frightening for the Linux loyal Traditional Unix sanity plus your choice of MATE or Xfce OSes07 Nov 2023 | 106
Open source license challenges part 461: Element plots move to AGPLv3 Exclusive Getting contributions out of freeloaders Networks06 Nov 2023 | 8
OpenELA flips Red Hat the bird with public release of Enterprise Linux source Technical Steering Committee also formed OSes03 Nov 2023 | 36
Trinity desktop's latest release snaps into action on Q4OS 5.3 It's already available on this lightweight Debian spin OSes02 Nov 2023 | 12
Mozilla treats Debian devotees to the raw taste of Firefox Nightly Handle with care, but a native package is still a good sign Software01 Nov 2023 | 19
Wayland heading for default status as Mint devs mix it into Cinnamon 6 bun Plus Linux Mint 22 to be based on Ubuntu 'Noble Numbat' OSes27 Oct 2023 | 21
The battle between open source and 'sort of' open source is as old as software Opinion There's nothing new about HashiCorp leaving the principle behind OSes27 Oct 2023 | 34
GNOME Foundation's new executive director sparks witch hunt Holly Million faces scorn despite proven job record OSes24 Oct 2023 | 82
FreeBSD 14's RC2 dances to the tune of OpenZFS 2.2 The last version to support x86-32 is currently expected early in November OSes24 Oct 2023 | 28
Ubuntu unleashes Mantic Minotaur with 23.10 build The bull has escaped Minos' labyrinth, and El Reg follows the thread Software14 Oct 2023 | 8
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 | 10
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 | 20
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 | 113
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 | 54
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 | 25
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