You can keep your Windows 11 and macOS Ventura on your PCs. On my desktop, what I want is open-source Linux. In particular, I want Linux Mint. Why? Because, it’s free, easy to use, and far more secure than its … Continue reading →

Opinion With the quick one-two punch of FTX and Binance, crypto is finally losing its luster as the next revolution in money. I was recently in Manhattan at the Linux Foundation and Fintech Open Source Foundation’s (FINOS) Open Source in … Continue reading →

Just what every Linux system administrator wants just before the holidays: A serious Linux kernel security bug. The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), a zero-day security research firm, announced a new Linux kernel security bug. This hole allows…Read More

You’d think we’d be done with this infamous bug. You’d be wrong. A year ago, if you’d asked someone what open source Java logging library Apache Log4j was, you’d get a lot of blank glances. Sure, it was used in … Continue reading →

Well, that’s annoying! For years, the Gorilla Web Toolkit was a popular, open source Go toolkit for web-based applications. It consists of packages that augment Go’s base libraries to add important features such as parameterized routing and session…Read More

Elon Musk, CEO of Twitter and a whole lot of other companies, literally asked Twitter’s users, “Should I step down as head of Twitter?” And, following this, he declared, “I will abide by the results of this poll.” The results … Continue reading →