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July 14, 2022
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Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Want to bring your old PC or Mac back to life? You can revive it from the dead with Google ChromeOS Flex. The next-generation IBM z16 comes with an IBM Telum processor for real-time AI insights. Microsoft has its own … Continue reading →

July 14, 2022
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Rocky Linux 9 arrives with everything you need to replicate the distro on your own

Hybrid working will fail if employers keep ignoring the needs of disabled workers Read now A little over a year ago, Rocky Linux arrived, and it was an instant hit. Rocky Linux, the brainchild of CentOS co-founder and high-performance computing … Continue reading →

July 13, 2022
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Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days

Opinion In the beginning, Microsoft was The Evil Empire. In 2001 then CEO Steve Ballmer declared: “Linux is a cancer.” Later, Microsoft sponsored SCO’s copyright attack on Linux; claimed that Linux violated unnamed Microsoft patents; and forced…Read More