Congress Considers Stepping on Rights, Windows Mobile Share Nil & Whose DNA...
Friday FOSS Week in Review With the Black Hat Conference going on in Las Vegas, and with Congress messing around where they shouldn’t, this has been a busy week in the FOSS world. Some of the news is...
View ArticleHappy Belated Birthday, Mageia
I absolutely have to stop for a moment to wish a big happy birthday to the folks at Mageia. A year ago, when I wrote about a group of Mandriva former employees and contributors who’d decided to create...
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Saying Goodbye To PCLOS
The bull doesn’t seem to be part of PCLinuxOS anymore, as it was in 2010 when I first started using it. The distro changes its look with each new release and nowdays the logo is something akin to a CPU...
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Some Prominent Open Source Forks
Penguinistas used to worry about the dreaded fork, especially of Linux. “What if Linux forks and becomes like Unix?” was a question often being posed in the open source media. Linus Torvalds would do...
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Best Newbie Distro? You Say Linux Mint.
According to our “Newbie” Distro Poll, someone considering moving from Windows or Mac to Linux should consider taking Linux Mint for a spin. The poll asked the question, “What Linux distro would you be...
View ArticleAnd Your First Linux Distro Was…
Back on June 23, when we asked you to name the first Linux distro you ever used, we pretty much knew that the choice “Other” would take the day. That’s because we wanted to be completely neutral, so...
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Recommending Linux to a Friend
It was the summer of 2008 and it was hot. Big surprise for Texas, right? I stepped in from the back porch and snagged a towel from the rack. As I wiped away the sweat, the phone rang and I hustled in...
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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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Mandriva 1998-2015
Mandriva S.A., the French company behind Mandriva, the distribution that long time Linux users will remember as Mandrake, died this week at the age of sixteen. The announcement came in the form of a...
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OSVDB Shuts Down, Firefox Add-ons Unsafe & More…
FOSS Week in Review Bubbling beneath the headlines in this week’s FOSS news review: ownCloud gets a new release, the Linux kernel grows by a half million lines since January 1, a new OS for the Pi 3...
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