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Much like Linux had trouble gaining users back in the day because the general public didn’t know about it, independent online radio stations like The Barrel of Rock are having trouble finding an audience because potential listeners can’t wade through tens of thousands of music radio stations to find them.

The software industry plays a large role in Ukraine’s economy, with many Ukrainian developers working remotely from Ukraine for software vendors located in the EU, UK, and US. Training manuals in the Ukrainian language will help veterans of Ukraine’s military struggles against Russia take advantage of this opportunity.

Unlike the company’s eponymous flagship distribution for servers that has been available for years, EuroLinux Desktop was introduced in September for companies wanting to move their employees from Windows or Mac Workstations to Linux.

Not long after updating its Pangolin laptop line, System76 is at it again, with a new updated version of its Gazelle laptop with your choice of Ubuntu or Pop!_OS preinstalled.

As Red Hat slowly loses its open culture under IBM’s ownership, SUSE might be set to finally become an important global open-source player, but only if its board allows the former Red Hatter who will take the helm on May 2 to bring “the open source way” to a secretive and “top-down” corporate culture.

Pushing the end of voting back by one day assures there will be no confusion about when the polls close, which could have cost some OSI members their votes.

A seemingly unintentional factual error in a get-out-the-vote email sent by Open Source Initiative to its members could result in some members waiting until after the polls close to vote in the organizations current board of directors election.

Although Open Source 101 (which will be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina for the first time on Thursday March 23) primarily targets those new to open source, veteran open sourcers can find benefits from attending, too.

Basil Cousins, the co-founder and director of OpenForum Europe has died after a long illness.

If this is March, it must be election time at OSI. This year, two individual seats and one affiliate seat are in the running.

Here’s a dozen reasons, in the form of a dozen items that are on this year’s schedule, to go to this year’s SCALE, which starts Thursday in Pasadena, California.

Nextcloud announced on Wednesday that it now has a SharePoint replacement ready for production use, and that Deutsche Telekom has made Nextcloud Office available to the users of MagentaCLOUD.

At an online media event held in early February, Red Hat’s former CEO talked about investing, open source, open governance, and of course, Red Hat.

With the generation that founded the free software and FOSS movements rapidly aging, a new group called FOSSDA plans to collect open sources oral history, straight from the mouths that made it. Funding and infrastructure is already largely in place and work is already being done.

In January, FOSS Force’s Christine Hall was the guest on Doc Searls’ FLOSS Weekly podcast. Here’s what she learned from that appearance.

When Xfce 4.18 was released in December, many of the desktop environment’s users might not have noticed many changes. That’s because most of the changes were under the hood, and its popular file manager, Thunar, went through a major overhaul.

The Gnome desktop is an excellent choice for new users, although it offers a user experience that’s a little different than the traditional desktop experience. This guide will demystify Gnome, which is essentially an easy-to-use desktop.

KDE’s Plasma desktop environment, once considered something of a resource hog, has more features than ever and is Linux’s most configurable desktop, yet it’s as easy on resources as relatively lightweight desktops such as Xfce.

A fun quiz to test your knowledge of Linux DEs. It’s down-and-dirty — kind of like a pop quiz — and because we believe in privacy, nothing is going on your permanent record.

There are something like 300 Linux distributions. Thankfully, the list of Linux desktop environments is much shorter, but there are still plenty.