On May 25th, 2021 with 100 comments
Microsoft is making the promised support for Linux graphical user interface (GUI) apps on Windows 10 available to customers as of the next Windows 10 release,...
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On May 21st, 2021 with 38 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: One month ago the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel when it was revealed the...
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On May 20th, 2021 with 32 comments
Linux on Chromebooks is finally coming out of beta with the release of Chrome OS 91, Google said at its developer I/O conference. From a report: The company...
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On May 3rd, 2021 with 125 comments
This week ZDNet dedicated an article to "the most popular Fedora Linux in years."
Red Hat's community Linux distribution Fedora has always been popular with...
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On April 22nd, 2021 with 94 comments
jonesy16 writes: While users have long been able to run Linux GUI apps on Windows by installing a separate X Server, this marks the first time that native...
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On April 21st, 2021 with 257 comments
Greg Kroah-Hartman, who is one of the head honchos of the Linux kernel development and maintenance team, has banned the University of Minnesota (UMN) from...
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On April 8th, 2021 with 188 comments
IBM has announced a COBOL compiler for Linux on x86. "IBM COBOL for Linux on x86 1.1 brings IBM's COBOL compilation technologies and capabilities to the Linux...
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On April 3rd, 2021 with 43 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader xiando quotes the backstory from LinuxReviews.org:
CentOS used to be the go-to alternative for those who wanted to use Red Hat...
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On March 26th, 2021 with 459 comments
nickwinlund77 shares a report from The Register: The chorus of disapproval over Richard M Stallman, founder and former president of the Free Software...
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On March 24th, 2021 with 115 comments
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a ZDNet article, written by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Linux is the poster-child for the C language. But times...
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On March 1st, 2021 with 58 comments
Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has revealed that inclement weather in the USA meant he recently endured six electricity-free days in his Portland, Oregon, home...
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On March 1st, 2021 with 142 comments
AmiMoJo shares a report: Last month, the Linux Mint team published a post on the organization's official blog about the importance of installing security...
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On February 28th, 2021 with 66 comments
Slashdot reader b-dayyy writes: CrowdSec is a massively multiplayer firewall designed to protect Linux servers, services, containers, or virtual machines...
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On February 27th, 2021 with 83 comments
ZDNet brings an update about the future of Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
When Red Hat, CentOS's Linux parent company, announced it was "shifting focus from CentOS...
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On February 24th, 2021 with 53 comments
Worried about the security of Linux and open-source code, Google is sponsoring a pair of full-time developers to work on the kernel's security. From a report:...
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On February 13th, 2021 with 280 comments
When Dave McKay first used computers, punched paper tape was in vogue, "and he has been programming ever since," according to his biography page at How-To...
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On February 6th, 2021 with 13 comments
AlmaLinux describes itself as "an open-source, community-driven project that intends to fill the gap left by the demise of the CentOS stable release." And now...
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On January 11th, 2021 with 93 comments
Charlotte Web writes: With Linux 5.10 having shipped as the latest Long Term Support (LTS) release to be maintained for at least the next five years, a...
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