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https://lwn.net/Articles/1044496/

https://lwn.net/Articles/1021827/

https://lwn.net/Articles/1002044/

https://news.itsfoss.com/cockcroachdb-no-open-source/

As you may know, Ubuntu is gatekeeping security updates in their "universe" repository. It will show your system is vulnerable and will only allow you to fix those security holes if you purchase Ubuntu Pro.They claim that the universe repository was always unsupported and now they are offering in-house patches for those packages, but they are intentionally unclear if they are upstreaming those...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-2023-Revenue-Numbers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/VirtualBox-7.1-Beta

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-RHEL-AI

https://lwn.net/Articles/974488/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-R560-Open-Default

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rocky-Linux-Upstream-Kernels

For a developer workstation who needs to often spin different OSs to test stuff, which one is easier to setup and use?In my limited experience, VirtualBox takes the crown, followed by GNOME Boxes. But GNOME Boxes is too simple and misses some important features. And Virtualbox, in spite of it's amazingly easy UI, has an out of kernel module with "taints" the kernel and can cause strange issues...

OnlyOffice is a free and open-source (AGPL license) office suite that seems more polished and easier to use than LibreOffice. LibreOffice, compared to OnlyOffice, feels clunky, harder to use and dated.Why hasn't it seem more adoption compared to LibreOffice, especially by Linux distros?Why is LibreOffice favored over OnlyOffice?

https://lwn.net/Articles/961086/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Encrypt-Corrupt

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/critical-vulnerability-affecting-most-linux-distros-allows-for-bootkits/

I'm a DevOps and need to up my container game. I plan to become an expert in Docker but Podman is a serious contender. It looks like Podman might have a bright future since Red Hat is investing a lot of money in it while Docker is still scratching their heads looking for a business model that the community won't reject. Podman seems to have a better financial future outlook since it's...

In your experience packaging applications, is it easier to create RPMs or DEBs? What makes one easier or the other more complicated? What about the documentation and associated tools for creating the packages?Is there one easier and simpler than the other or are both complicated beasts?

In upstream Apache httpd and most other distros Apache configuration is so simple, with few files and a simple directory structure for its configuration.Meanwhile, in Debian and its derivatives, we got it split into many files and directories, with a whole system of symlinks and helpers that exist only in Debian, like a2enmod, a2dismod, a2ensite, a2dissite, and a2enconf, a2disconf.I've even...

https://linuxiac.com/debian/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/20/appflowy-open-source-notion-alternative/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-LTS-Fully-Netplan

I've been using a network printer with Ubuntu for many years, many releases, without any problems, and since updating to 23.10 printing stopped working. It's broken. Won't print and will crash. I have other computers at home that were upgraded to Ubuntu 23.10 and are having the same problem.I tested my printer with Fedora 39, Debian 12 and openSUSE Tumbleweed and it works flawlessly.It seems...

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/17mmren/canonical_and_their_disrespectful_interviews/

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/sanity_returns_to_mariadb_plc/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.10-Released

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Snap-Store-Malicious-Apps