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Debian Tops Our Community Distro Poll
The results have been tallied and Debian got the most votes in our Community Distro Poll. We would call them the “winner,” but this wasn’t about winners and losers. It was about trying to reach a...
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How Many Linux Distros Are On the Top Ten?
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the number of GNU/Linux distros there are out in the wild. This is nothing new, as this has been an ongoing discussion among Linux users for at least as long...
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Ubucon Slated for SCALE 14X, Bassel Offered MIT Job & More…
FOSS Week in Review I don’t say enough good things about Ubuntu, so when they give me reason to, I’m on it. I also don’t talk enough about openSUSE either; good, bad or indifferent. Not that I’m...
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Redesigning Tor, Goodbye OpenOffice & More…
Also included: Remembering Vernon Adams, Red Hat vs. VMware, a new distro release, openSUSE Leap and ransomware that deletes files. FOSS Week in Review The summer of ’16 is all but over. Good riddance....
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No, OpenSUSE and SUSE Downloads Haven’t Been Hacked
No matter what you might have heard or read, it appears as if last week’s defacement of openSUSE’s news site didn’t affect download images of either openSUSE or SLES. Screenshot courtesy...
View ArticleOpenSUSE is Looking for Candidates to Run for Its Board
Two seats on the board at openSUSE are up for grabs. Candidates will be announced on November 22, and voting begins on December 13. The post OpenSUSE is Looking for Candidates to Run for Its Board...
View ArticleSlowroll: openSUSE’s New Take on the Rolling Release Model
Currently an experimental project, Slowroll is a hybrid distro that seeks to meld the stability of a fixed release distro like openSUSE Leap with the advantages of a rolling release like openSUSE...
View ArticleRMS’s Cancer, Linux’s Shrinking Support, Goog’s ‘Privacy Sandbox’, Naming...
Also included in this week's FOSS Week in Review: Gnome's new due date, readers say Red Hat's changed for the worse under IBM, and a new poll asks how you like your distros released. The post RMS’s...
View ArticleOMG! SUSE Wants to Take the ‘SUSE’ Out of openSUSE?
Would openSUSE by any other name still have Tumbleweed and Leap? We've looked at the openSUSE name-change controversy and have decided there's nothing to see here -- move on. The post OMG! SUSE Wants...
View ArticleRegistration Opens for openSUSE’s ‘Early Adopter Tech Summit’
Registration is open and a call for papers is out for openSUSE's Early Adopter Tech Summit which will take place on the heels of SUSECON in March. The post Registration Opens for openSUSE’s ‘Early...
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