Opinion If you count Android and Chrome OS as Linux, which I do, the Linux desktop accounts for 44.98 percent of the end user market. But if your idea of the “Linux desktop” has a front end of Cinnamon, GNOME … Continue reading →

Seriously! It seems like every time I blink, the popular JavaScript package manager, Node Package Manager (npm), has had a new security violation revealed. Last year, WhiteSource, a leading open source security provider, declared a playground for…Read More

When Red Hat announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s (RHEL) source code would no longer be easily available, it transformed how the RHEL clones like AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, and Rocky Linux create their distros. While Oracle and Rocky plan on…Read … Continue reading →

Opinion Meta’s newly released large language model Llama-2 is not open source. Yes, I know Meta AI people proclaim: “Llama 2 [is] the next generation of our open source LLM available for research and commercial use.” So what? It’s not. … Continue reading →

The new Linux Mint 21.2, codenamed “Victoria,” is a refreshing update to my favorite Linux desktop distribution. It continues to build on the solid foundation of Ubuntu 22.04 Long Term Support (LTS) and the Linux kernel 5.15, offering a stable … Continue reading →

I was a database administrator and developer for Adabas/Natural on IBM mainframes; Datatrieve Rdb on VAX/VMS; and the xBase database management system (DBMS) language family when I was much younger. It was some of the most painful work I’d ever … Continue reading →