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On November 7th, 2019 with 15 comments
The latest version of Chrome OS, version 78, adds separate browser and device settings, click-to-call, and picture-in-picture support for YouTube. It also...
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On September 20th, 2019 with 238 comments
Freshly Exhumed shares a report from Phoronix, detailing a new set of systemd capabilities shown off by lead developer Lennart Poettering at the annual All...
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On August 13th, 2018 with 47 comments
fstack writes: Linus Torvalds has released Linux 4.18 as the newest kernel bringing a Steam Controller kernel driver, Spectre updates for ARM64, power...
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On March 29th, 2016 with 87 comments
prisoninmate quotes a report from Softpedia: Git 2.8 has been released on March 28, and we have to admit that it comes as a huge surprise to us all. Prominent...
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On January 15th, 2016 with 85 comments
Joey Amanchukwu is co-founder and CEO of Transforia, a company that leases computers pre-loaded with Red Hat Enterprise Linux -- a distro choice that may have...
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On November 24th, 2015 with 112 comments
The device is called the Turris Omnia, and its Indiegogo page says it's a "hi-performance & open-source router." Their fundraising goal is $100,000. So...
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On November 10th, 2015 with 93 comments
Nigel Dessau has written a book titled Become a 21st Century Executive: Breaking Away from the Pack. One thing he mentions both in his book and in conversation...
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On July 1st, 2015 with 187 comments
Last Thursday you had a chance to ask Linus Torvalds about programming, hardware, and all things Linux. You can read his answers to those questions below. If...
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On December 19th, 2014 with 21 comments
Their website says, 'Come for the code, stay for the people! We have awesome attendees and electrifying parties. Check out the robotics club, the automated...
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On May 19th, 2014 with 293 comments
How do we know Linux sucks? Because Bryan Lunduke says so. How did he become a Linux authority? By using Linux, of course. He has also written a kids Linux...
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On May 7th, 2014 with 47 comments
You know who maddog is, right? He's one of our favorite speakers on what we might call the Linux/FOSS circuit. So you know, despite the Noel Coward song that...
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On May 6th, 2014 with 12 comments
We last interviewed LinuxFest volunteer Jakob Perry in January, 2013, when he and the rest of the crew that makes this event happen were gearing up for their...
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On April 17th, 2014 with 72 comments
This is an interview with Graham Morrison, who is one of four people behind the shiny-new Linux Voice magazine, which is printed on (gasp) paper. Yes, paper,...
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On September 19th, 2013 with 29 comments
Twelve years ago, Slashdot interviewed Brad Kuhn in his then-role as VP of the Free Software Foundation. Kuhn is still involved with the FSF, but has gone on,...
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On September 18th, 2013 with 50 comments
Brad McCredie is an IBM VP, and head of IBM's Power Systems development. (He's also one of the mere few hundred IBM Fellows that have been named in the past 50...
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On September 16th, 2013 with 369 comments
Slashdot's Timothy Lord is attending LinuxCon in New Orleans this week and writes in with the following.
"Valve
co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell...
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On June 25th, 2013 with 26 comments
It's been over 13 years since we did a Q&A with Linux International executive director Jon "maddog" Hall. For decades, maddog has been one of the highest...
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On June 19th, 2013 with 21 comments
The OIN (Open Invention Network) site's front page starts out by saying, "Open source software development has been one of the greatest sources of innovation....
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On May 16th, 2013 with 112 comments
Linus Torvalds, Jon 'maddog' Hall, and many other names closely associated with Linux are also closely associated with beer. (Ed. note: I have personally...
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On May 9th, 2013 with 106 comments
"CrunchBang Linux is a Debian based distro with the Openbox window manager on top of it. So it is Debian under the hood with Openbox on the surface," says...
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On February 26th, 2013 with 28 comments
This is a Google Hangout interview with Keith Bergelt, Chief Executive Officer of the Open Invention Network (OIN), which was jointly founded by IBM, NEC,...
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On February 11th, 2013 with 25 comments
The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is a venerable and-well regarded volunteer-run, regional Linux conference that draws over 2000 attendees and an...
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On January 28th, 2013 with 43 comments
Jakob Perry, today's interviewee, is a volunteer who helps make LinuxFest Northwest happen. This is an event produced by the Bellingham Linux Users Group that...
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On December 3rd, 2012 with 96 comments
Yes, you can now have full remote access to your home computer or a server at work that's running Ubuntu Linux. Really any Linux distro, although only Ubuntu...
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On November 29th, 2012 with 177 comments
This is what we asked Jason Perlow. He wrote a Linux Magazine column for many years and now writes for ZDNet. The ZDNet blurb describes him as "a technologist...
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On October 8th, 2012 with 460 comments
Linus Torvalds was (and still is) the primary force behind the development of the Linux kernel, and since you are reading Slashdot, you already knew that. Mr....
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On July 27th, 2012 with 170 comments
CowboyNeal writes "Last week, Oracle announced
that they were making Oracle Linux available free of charge,
and also provided a script that makes...
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On April 5th, 2012 with 79 comments
SJVN is, of course, the well-known nickname and abbreviation for Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols, who has been covering technology as a journalist since... since...
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On July 8th, 2003 with 116 comments
Officially, the theme of this year's Open Source
Software Convention (OSCON) 2003 is "Embracing and Extending
Proprietary Software," and to that end...
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On June 9th, 2003 with 212 comments
LinuxLasVegas writes "SuSE announced a new release today titled "SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0". The distro is built on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8.x technology...
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