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8 months ago
Analysis sjvnLinux and open-source documentation is a mess: Here's the solution
Simply telling someone to RTFM is not an answer when the manual is outdated, unreadable, or nonexistent. We need to improve the quality of our documentation, and the way to do that is simple.
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8 months ago
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AlmaLinux Adds New Hardware Certification Program
AlmaLinux wants to be taken seriously by enterprise hardware vendors.
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8 months ago
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8 months ago
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How open source is steering AI down the high road
At Open Source Summit China, Jim Zemlin highlights the Linux Foundation's most significant contributions to AI development.
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8 months ago
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Was your Social Security number leaked to the dark web? Use this tool to find out
A recent breach involving nearly 3 billion personal records included many Social Security numbers. Was yours one of them? Here's how to check and what to do to protect yourself.
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9 months ago
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AlmaLinux Makes In-Place Upgrades Easier for CentOS Users
Thanks to the AlmaLinux OS Foundation's ELevate project, disgruntled CentOS users can easily migrate to AlmaLinux and even Scientific Linux.
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9 months ago
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'Logical, beautiful, perfect' WordStar rises again: How you can type faster with this old tech
Older than the floppy drive and long favored by writers and typists alike, WordStar makes a comeback thanks to the efforts of this Hugo-winning sci-fi author. Here's how to try it.
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9 months ago
Comment sjvn
Is this thing on? Taps keyboard. Helloooo...
Posted in: What's up with Snapzu?
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9 months ago
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Russ Cox Steps Down as Tech Lead of Go Programming Language
No great changes are expected as Russ Cox turns over the leadership baton to Austin Clements.
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9 months ago
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Will OpenAI's new AI detection tool put an end to student cheating?
OpenAI claims its new method can identify - with 99.9% accuracy - when someone uses ChatGPT to write an essay or research paper. Here's why I'm skeptical.
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9 months ago
Analysis sjvn
Can AI even be open source? It's complicated
AI can't exist without open source, but the top AI vendors are unwilling to commit to open-sourcing their programs and data sets. To complicate matters further, defining open-source AI is a messy issue that has yet to be settled.
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9 months ago
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A new White House report embraces open-source AI
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration supports open-data models - but acknowledges the risks. Here's how it plans to navigate the technology's pros and cons.
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9 months ago
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New OpenTofu Release Challenges Terraform's Dominance
OpenTofu 1.8 introduces early variables/locals evaluation, which was the most highly anticipated feature of the release, among other requested features.
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9 months ago
Current Event sjvn
Microsoft 365 goes down - again
UPDATED: It's not just you (or Crowdstrike) - Microsoft 365 really is going through an outage. Here's what we know.
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9 months ago
Analysis sjvn
CrowdStrike meets Murphy's Law: If it can go wrong, it will
And boy, did last Friday's Windows fiasco ever prove that yet again
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9 months ago
Analysis sjvn
Could eBPF Save Us From CrowdStrike-Style Disasters?
In the aftermath of the CrowdStrike Windows security fiasco, security experts and developers alike are looking for a safer way to run low-level security programs. One possible solution is eBPF.
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9 months ago
Analysis sjvn
Open Source is not a business model; it never was
It never will be. But, it's a great development model.
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9 months ago
Review sjvn
I've tried a zillion desktop distros - it doesn't get any better than Linux Mint 22
Linux Mint's latest release continues its tradition of excellence. It's easy to learn and use, faster than Windows, and runs on a thrift-store PC. What more can you ask for?
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9 months ago
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Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.
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9 months ago
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Meta inches toward open source AI with new LLaMA 3.1
Is Meta's 405 billion parameter model really open source? Depends on who you ask. Here's how to try out the new engine for yourself.
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9 months ago
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OpenELA Liberates Red Hat Enterprise Linux Source Code
OpenELA has automated its process so that new enterprise Linux sources are available just days after each release of new versions of RHEL.
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9 months ago
Analysis sjvn
The workers have spoken: They're staying home.
And companies can't make them come into the office. Really.
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9 months ago
Analysis sjvn
7 Urgent Lessons From the CrowdStrike Disaster
What can IT organizations learn from the software update that brought the world to its knees this week? Spoiler: a lot of things they should already know.
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9 months ago
Current Event sjvn
Put not your trust in Windows — or CrowdStrike
Who in the world would trust Windows for any mission-critical work?