The battle between Red Hat and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone distributors takes another turn as the Open Enterprise Linux Association announced that it’s made the source code openly available for RHEL 9.4 and RHEL 8.10. I know what … Continue reading →

For more years than I care to recall, Linux users have hated NVIDIA, the world’s leading Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) company. Why? Because years after all the other companies open-sourced their drivers, NVIDIA refused to do so. Nor would it … Continue reading →

The latest Linux kernel, 6.10, is out. Linus Torvalds wasn’t happy about how the last days running up the Linux 6.10 release went. In the end, though, “it also wasn’t noisy enough to warrant an extra rc [release candidate].” So, … Continue reading →

In its latest State of Application Security Report, Cloudflare paints a sobering picture of the internet’s threat landscape in 2024. How sobering? Try 6.8% of internet traffic is malicious, up a percentage point from last year’s study. What’s driving…Read More

Opinion A “Youth and Open Source” panel was held at the United Nations (UN) Open Source Program Office (OSPO) for Good conference in the UN building in Manhattan. There was only one little problem with it. To quote Ruth Ikegah, … Continue reading →

How big a deal is open source? According to a January 2024 Harvard Business School study, rebuilding open-source software (OSS) would cost $8.8 trillion if companies had to develop equivalent technology. Of that cost, “96% of the demand-side value is…Read … Continue reading →