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[Link] NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems
Read: 6/12/2021 www.theregister.com
For DevOps folk, this was tantamount to clickbait: Nix and Docker are different tools for different jobs, and anyway, it's possible to use Nix to build Docker images. The distro, which hit version 21.11 on the last day of November, was built around the purely functional Nix package manager.
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[Link] Indie dev finds that Linux users generate more, better bug reports
Read: 26/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
An indie developer has found an interesting observation: Though only 5.8% of his game's buyers were playing on Linux, they generated over 38% of the bug reports. Not because the Linux platform was buggier, either.
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[Link] Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision
Read: 25/10/2021 www.theverge.com
Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community.
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[Link] Linux Fu: Globs Vs Regexp
Read: 10/10/2021 hackaday.com
I once asked a software developer at work how many times we called fork() in our code. I’ll admit, it was a very large project, but I expected the answer to be — at most — two digits. The developer came back and read off some number from a piece of paper that was in the millions.
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[Link] Take Note: An E-Ink Tablet From Pine64
Read: 17/8/2021 hackaday.com
Over the years we’ve seen a variety of interesting pieces of hardware emerging from the folks at Pine64, so it’s always worth a second look when they announce a new product.
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[Link] Linux Fu: The Windows X11 Connection
Read: 7/8/2021 hackaday.com
The life of a Linux user can be a bit difficult. Sometimes you have to — or want to — run Windows. Why Windows? Sometimes you have a work computer or a laptop that Linux doesn’t support well. Or it might be software.
[Link] OpSec Says DMCA Notice System Was “Spoofed” To Target Ubuntu Download
Read: 2/7/2021 torrentfreak.com
An anti-piracy company cited as the sender of a DMCA notice targeting an entirely legal copy of Ubuntu says that its notice sending system was spoofed.
[Link] Linux kernel team rejects University of Minnesota researchers’ apology
Read: 27/4/2021 arstechnica.com
Last week, senior Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that all Linux patches coming from the University of Minnesota would be summarily rejected by default.
[Link] Yep, the 'Who owns Linux?' case is back from the dead
Read: 9/4/2021 www.theregister.com
Column It seemed like a classic April The First spoof. Indeed, some tech titles had it on their lists of best pranks of the day. But it's true: the software zombie court case to end all zombie software court cases has woken from its slumber.
[Link] Rocky Linux gets a new sponsor—Gregory Kurtzer’s startup, Ctrl IQ
Read: 2/2/2021 arstechnica.com
Gregory Kurtzer, co-founder of the now-defunct CentOS Linux distribution, has founded a new startup company called Ctrl IQ, which will serve in part as a sponsoring company for the upcoming Rocky Linux distribution.
[Link] Why Red Hat killed CentOS—a CentOS board member speaks
Read: 29/1/2021 arstechnica.com
This morning, The Register's Tim Anderson published excerpts of an interview with the CentOS project's Brian Exelbierd. Exelbierd is a member of the CentOS board and its official liaison with Red Hat.