Practical Technology

First things first. There really is such a thing as a numbat. It’s a pocket-sized marsupial anteater (see above). And now, it’s also the mascot for Canonical’s latest Linux distro, Ubuntu 24.04. I’ve been running Noble Numbat on my 2020 vintage Dell…Read More

Seven years ago, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under President Donald Trump’s hand-picked Chair Ajit Pai, a former Verizon in-house lawyer, killed off net neutrality. In a decisive move, the now Democrat-controlled FCC has restored net…Read More

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SEATTLE — At The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America, Linus Torvalds and his good friend Dirk Hohndel, Verizon’s Head of the Open Source Program Office, once more had a wide-ranging conversation about Linux development and related…Read More

SEATTLE — SPDX, the open standard for “System” Bill of Materials, takes a major step forward. For years, we needed a standard way for companies to standardize their license and component information (metadata) in software bills of material (SBOM) to…Read More

Opinion Since its founding, the Linux Foundation has been a vendor-neutral supporter of Linux and open source software. Now, though, it’s actively promoting such open source projects as OpenTofu and Valkey. The Linux Foundation started in 2007 when…Read More