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The recipes that Carla Shroder shares here only begin to scratch the surface of what’s to be found in the Second Edition of her classic guide to Linux. If it was up to us, however, we would have called it “The Joy of Linux”.

Since Open Source Summit Japan will be all virtual again this year, meaning live access anywhere, we’ve made some picks and suggestions, as well as some observations.

A dozen years ago, the notion of Microsoft doing anything to make it easier for Windows users to find and install open source software would’ve been unthinkable.

Users can download now for on-premises and edge installations. Images for AWS, Azure, GCP and other clouds will be available soon.

Two seats on the board at openSUSE are up for grabs. Candidates will be announced on November 22, and voting begins on December 13.

In the beginning it was The HeliOS Project, and just getting donations of equipment was a challenge to say the least. But by 2012 we had morphed into our own nonprofit with our own facility, and a pool of over 100 volunteers who made Reglue.org the success it became. Since then, Reglue.org has placed 2,237 computers into financially-disadvantaged homes of students, ranging from middle school kids to graduate students.

The Raspberry Pi Foundations latest project, Code Club World, turns learning to code into fun games and challenges.

“2021 State of the Onion” will be online on November 17 and will be available for viewing on Tor’s YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter accounts.

Spoiler alert: “Most tech authors don’t write to make money. We write to share cool stuff.”

System76’s CEO told FOSS Force that the company is in the early stages of putting a desktop project together, and cited 2023 as a potential release date.

The online event is free-to-attend, although those living on the West Coast might find the start time to be a little early.

The exploit, patched since April, only affects customers running on-premises versions of GitLab and doesn’t affect GitLab.com.

Project Trident’s default Lumina desktop environment is unaffected by this development and will continue to be developed and maintained for Linux and BSD users.

Changes to Firefox’s add-on policies that were announced on Wednesday, focus on privacy and security and will go into effect on December 1, 2021.

The enterprise focused FOSS cloud platform released a beta version of a backup app for Nextcloud that’s designed specifically for home users.

The Firefox browser, which has been experiencing declining use for more than a decade, is the only open source brand included in Fact Company’s ‘Brands that Matter.’

Microsoft discovers that no matter how much control it wants over .NET, an open source foundation is ultimately controlled by its community.

Apache Software Foundation says goodbye to its system of mirrors that have been serving downloads of its software for more than 20 years.

At this year’s All Things Open conference, IBM unveiled a new cloud guide focused on open source and hybrid cloud deployments.

It’s now easier to migrate from CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8, Oracle Linux 8, or Rocky Linux 8, thanks to a new project from AlmaLinux.