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The AlmaLinux OS Foundation has announced the general availability of AlmaLinux 8.10, a community-owned open-source alternative to CentOS.

The world's second-biggest open source company, SUSE, has a solution to offer those firms that are using CentOS 7, an enterprise Linux distribution that reaches its end of life on 30 June.

The Debian GNU/Linux project, which produces a free Linux distribution, does not appear to be interested in taking a position on allowing contributions generated through AI.

Veteran open source advocate Bruce Perens, creator of the open source definition that has provided the rules for open source software for the last 26 years, has proposed a new licence known as the Post-Open Zero-Cost Licence which, he says, will address existing problems faced by this genre of software.

In some ways, Andreas Tille is an unusual person to take over as leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project. Unusual because of his age, unusual because of the fact that he acknowledged the negatives about the position.

The original maintainer of the xz Utils package, which was backdoored and almost distributed to production Linux systems, is yet to make any public comment about the incident, saying he first needs to understand the situation thoroughly.

The Debian GNU/Linux project has begun voting for a leader to head the project for 2024-25. Voting began on 6 April and is expected to wind up on 19 April.

A new version of the free office suite, LibreOffice 7.6 Community, has been released and can be downloaded right away.

As the Linux kernel gets set to mark 32 years since its public announcement, a senior developer from German open source firm SUSE has reminded the world at large that it is the de-facto standard for running business-critical workloads.

The GNOME Desktop project, which develops one of the two main user interfaces for Linux, is once again trying to reinvent the wheel, this time to create a new window management system.

Samba co-founder Jeremy Allison has likened the current move by Red Hat, to restrict access to the source code of its enterprise Linux distribution, to the way Sun Microsystems reacted to the threat from Linux.

German open source vendor SUSE says it will not be making any changes to its policies on source code access, emphasising "that the freedom to access, modify, and distribute software should remain open to all".

Linux creator Linus Torvalds says a discussion over removing support for i486 was triggered by something not directly related, but that just touched on a similar area.

The Debian GNU/Linux Project is set to start voting on a general resolution which outlines a way to solve the issues it faces in providing proprietary firmware on its install media.

South African developer Jonathan Carter has been elected as the leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project for a third year, defeating two others in the poll which concluded on 16 April.

The maintainer of the node-ipc package, a node.js module for local and remote inter-process communication, added code to some of its nested dependencies, resulting in files on computers with Russian or Belarussian IPs being wiped, a security firm claims.

Three developers have put their hands up to contest for the post of leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project, an annual exercise for the community GNU/Linux distribution.

A developer who had more than two decades of service in the Debian GNU/Linux project was stripped of his status in December leading to him deciding to leave the project.

The first advanced desktop environment for Linux users, KDE, has completed 25 years in existence, a testimony to the fact that free software is very much alive and kicking.

Paragon Software's NTFS driver has been included in the 5.15 release of the Linux kernel, bringing reliable read and write functionality for this filesystem to the kernel.