His dream of writing an operating system never came to fruition. The operating system kernel project, GNU Hurd, remains unfinished. But, inspired by his idea that the proprietary software social
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Linux Updates
Why open source is the cradle of artificial intelligence
According to some people, today’s AIs can already do this. I don’t agree, but we’re clearly on our way. In 1960, computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term “artificial intelligence”
It’s 2030, and digital wallets have replaced every card in our purses and pockets
As Marie Austenaa, Visa’s head of digital identity, said in her keynote discussion, “You have everything now on your mobile phone, your tickets, your cars, your boarding pass, your loyalty
Long-term support for Linux kernel to be cut as maintainence remains under strain
Maintainers face numerous obstacles to doing their jobs. Obstacle one: Many maintainers aren’t paid to maintain. They maintain code in addition to their day jobs. On top of that, they
Google extends Chromebook lifespan to ten years
June Wan/ZDNET I love Chromebooks, but there’s always been one annoying thing about them. While they can run for years and years — I have several over ten years still
OpenSUSE seeks a Leap replacement, but will distro community rise to the challenge?
Linarite: This would be a traditional release desktop distribution, albeit with a potentially smaller package selection than Leap. It’s expected to be based on a SUSE project known as “Granite,”
Linux 6.5 kernel arrives with exciting new features
To that end, he encourages developers to give “this final release one last round of testing.” So, before you get too wrapped up in building new releases on top of
Now you can run any Windows app on your Chromebook, thanks to this partnership
June Wan/ZDNET Over the years, ChromeOS has become quite popular. After all, most people these days really don’t need anything more than a web browser to access their work. Software-as-a-service
Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock would have been amazed at its legacy
Stephen Shankland/CNET Let’s go back to 1993. Bill Clinton is president, Jurassic Park is selling out movie tickets, UB40’s redo of Can’t Help Falling in Love is number one on the
New CrossOver 23 out for better Windows gameplay on MacOS, ChromeOS, and Linux
These gaming advances are the result of years of focused development, and the team is committed to aggressively expanding support for additional DirectX 12 games. In particular, it supports geometry
Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ go after Red Hat with the Open Enterprise Linux Association
This made it much more difficult for RHEL clone vendors, such as AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and Oracle Linux, to create perfect RHEL variant distributions. AlmaLinux elected to try to work
AMD and Intel CPU security bugs bring Linux patches
AMD will tell you it’s not that big a deal: The chip giant believes this vulnerability is only potentially exploitable locally, such as via downloaded malware. Nevertheless, AMD “recommends customers
Fedora Linux on M-powered Macs will be here shortly
They were pleased, therefore, when Gompa and Fedora knocked on their virtual door. Besides making Linux on modern Macs more accessible, Martin said that the Ashai team could focus “on
CIQ spins out its own Red Hat Ansible interface take: Ascender
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AlmaLinux discovers working with Red Hat isn’t easy
As AlmaLinux chairperson benny Vasquez explained, the precise goal is “ABI compatibility [which] in our case means working to ensure that applications built to run on RHEL (or RHEL clones)