A small miracle happened at 3:31am ET on Monday morning. Ingenuity, a tiny NASA helicopter, became the first powered aircraft to fly on another planet, Mars. This engineering feat was
Category: Linux Updates
Linux Updates
Canonical’s mini-Kubernetes, MicroK8s, has been optimized for Raspberry Pi
To say Kubernetes, everyone’s top container orchestration pick, is hard to master is an understatement. Kubernetes doesn’t have so much as a learning curve as it does a learning cliff.
Inspur, China’s largest cloud hardware vendor, joins open-source patent protection consortium
The Open Invention Network (OIN) defends the intellectual property (IP) rights of Linux and open-source software developers from patent trolls and the like. This is a global fight and now
The FSF doubles down on restoring RMS after his non-apology apology
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) re-admitting its founder Richard M. Stallman (RMS) to its board in late March caught everyone, including FSF members and staff, by surprise. Many — both outside
AWS’s Shane Miller to head the newly created Rust Foundation
Sources tell ZDNet that the Rust Foundation will announce on April 12 that Shane Miller, Amazon Web Services (AWS) senior engineering manager, has been elected the first chairperson of the newly
What Google’s API copyright win over Oracle means
If you listen to Oracle, then the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) deciding that application programming interfaces (API) can’t be strictly copyrighted because fair use applies was an
The Free Software Foundation’s leadership crisis worsens
According to some defenders of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board’s decision to put founder Richard M. Stallman (RMS) back on its board, the people demanding that RMS be removed
Linux Foundation and OpenTreatments Foundation team up to fight rare genetic diseases
About a decade ago, I lost my lovely, barely teenage niece Sarah to a rare childhood brain cancer. When I first found out, I’d assumed there was surely some treatment
CloudLinux Launches AlmaLinux, CentOS Linux clone
When Red Hat, CentOS‘s Linux parent company, announced it was “shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead
Free Software Foundation leaders and supporters desert sinking ship
When the Free Software Foundation (FSF) allowed disgraced founder Richard M. Stallman (RMS) to rejoin its board, the FSF board members clearly had no idea how others would see the
Open Source Initiative election hacked
The Open Source Initiative (OSI)‘s recent board election was hacked. The organization will re-run the election once the voting process’s vulnerability has been analyzed and fixed. Deb Nicholson, the OSI’s
Return of Stallman to FSF sparks outrage among open-source and free software leaders
Richard M. Stallman (RMS) has always been a polarizing figure. There are people who love him and those that hate him. For example, RMS often clashed with Linus Torvalds. RMS
Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux
Linux is the poster-child for the C language. But times change. The Rust language has been slowly gathering support for use as a system language in Linux. For example, at
Fedora Linux 34 beta rolled out
Fedora Linux has always been Red Hat’s leading-edge distribution. While CentOS Stream is now a “rolling preview” of what’s next for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Fedora remains the real
Richard M. Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation Board of Directors
In the aftermath of the Me Too movement and his defense of the behavior of the late Marvin Minsky, AI pioneer and associate of notorious billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,