August 22, 2023 CIQ, SUSE, and Oracle have formed the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA), a trade association that will provide source code compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The alliance was formed in response to Red more...
August 21, 2023 Debian, the oldest and most popular free Linux distribution, is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The distro was founded by Ian Murdock in 1993 and has since become the foundation for many other popular distros, including more...
August 2, 2023 Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds has suggested disabling AMD's fTPM firmware-based TPM module altogether, due to ongoing issues with the module causing intermittent stuttering. TPMs are used to securely create and store cryptographic keys, certificates, more...
July 28, 2023 A group of major technology companies, including Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and TomTom, have announced the launch of the Overture Maps Foundation. The foundation's goal is to create a free and open source map more...
July 24, 2023 Meta has released a large language model called Llama 2, which the company claims is open source. The license for Llama 2 however contains restrictions that prevent it from meeting the definition of open source more...
July 18, 2023 AlmaLinux, a free and community-supported enterprise Linux distribution, has announced that it is shifting its goal from being one-to-one, bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to being application binary interface (ABI) compatible. This more...
June 27, 2023 Open-source AI models, which allow anyone to view and manipulate the code, are growing in popularity. This is due to variables like cheaper costs for developing high-quality AI models, enhanced openness and auditability of open-source more...
June 26, 2023 Red Hat has announced that it will no longer provide public access to the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Under the new policy, only the source code of CentOS Stream will be more...
May 15, 2023 Despite concerns of job losses in the computer industry, new study from the Linux Foundation shows that 57% of firms are adding their staff this year, with a concentration on the open source and Linux more...
May 8, 2023 The introduction of open-source AI technologies has posed a serious threat to industry heavyweights such as Google and OpenAI. The publication of Meta's LLaMA model represented a watershed moment in the open-source AI movement, sparking more...
