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According to analytics data for tens of millions of website visits, as many as 10% of you are still running Windows 7. Rather than speculate on the reasons why, I've put together a poll. If you're still on Windows 7, please share your reasons.
Raspberry Pi: Five handy home office projects to try
Take your remote working game to the next level with these Raspberry Pi home office projects.
Linux vs. Windows: It's a matter of perspective
From my perspective, Linux is the operating system that doesn't get in your way of doing the work you need to do. It's there, ready to help you get things done, instead of being a hurdle, ready to trip you up.
Seeed Studio’s Odyssey is a mini-PC for big projects and small wallets
You can also buy the Odyssey without the Windows 10 license if you prefer a Linux desktop.
Red Hat and CentOS systems aren’t booting due to BootHole patches
Early this morning, an urgent bug showed up at Red Hat's bugzilla bug tracker—a user discovered that the RHSA_2020:3216 grub2 security update and RHSA-2020:3218 kernel security update rendered an RHEL 8.2 system unbootable.
How to enable Firefox WebRender for faster page rendering
WebRender has been in the works for some time now. Built as a GPU-based 2D rendering engine written in Rust, the purpose of WebRender is to make the rendering of pages both faster and smoother. Although that feature has been in the planning for a while, it has yet to be rolled out full scale
What’s Pushing More and More Windows Users to Linux?
As everybody knows already, Linux has recently recorded massive growth, with its market share increasing pretty much every single month as more users decided to give the platform a shot.
TrueNAS Core will soon replace FreeNAS—and we test the beta
ZFS features—with no command-line management. Earlier this week, network-storage vendor iXsystems announced the release of TrueNAS 12.0-BETA1, which will replace FreeNAS later in 2020.
Linux Is Becoming the Windows Alternative Microsoft Never Wanted
The Linux market share keeps growing and growing.
This Linux OS Looks Exactly Like Windows 10
Linuxfx can run executable files, and it’s based on Ubuntu 20.04 with the Cinnamon desktop, and overall, it’s pretty clear that the goal of building a familiar home for Windows 10 users in the Linux world has pretty much succeeded.
A decidedly non-Linux distro walkthrough: Haiku R1/beta2
1995’s finest operating system in 2020—plus, our $140 EVOO laptop rides again.
FLOSS Weekly 582: Open Source Initiative
Doc Searls talks with Simon Phipps and the president of OSI, Joshua R. Simmons. They discuss the past, present, and future of OSI and how this global non-profit has advanced in the past twenty years as well as how they continue to raise awareness and adoption of open-source software.
Brave Open-Source Browser Caught Adding Referral Codes to Typed-in URLs
Open-source browser Brave, which has become famous for its focus on user privacy, has been caught adding referral codes to typed-in URLs in the address bar.
Ubuntu Linux Overtakes Windows XP, Only Sky Is the Limit Now
Linux keeps growing, and growing, and growing, as third-party statistics show that the adoption of this Windows alternative keeps improving. Ubuntu is by far the most popular Linux distro right now.
Linux Keeps Growing and Growing and Growing
Linux keeps growing, according to new market share data, and if the same trend is continued in the next few months, it’s likely to overtake Apple’s macOS and become the second most-used desktop platform worldwide.
TrueNAS isn’t abandoning BSD—but it is adopting Linux
The company's in-development TrueNAS Scale project is based on Debian 11.
Linux Lite 5.0 “Emerald”: Everything You Need to Know
Linux Lite has just received a highly-anticipated update in the stable channel, so anyone who wants to give this distro a try can now download version 5.0.
Raspberry Pi: Here's what's new in latest operating system update
New updates have been rolled out to Raspberry Pi's 32-bit operating system, which is now simply called Raspberry Pi OS.
Review: Pop!_OS 20.04
Pop!_OS (or simply Pop, as I will refer to it throughout most of this article) is an Ubuntu-based distribution created by System76.
Windows Package Manager: Linux Users Will Love It
Microsoft used this year’s edition of the Build developer conference to announce the Windows Package Manager, a concept that Linux users will find very familiar and which is supposed to make app installation much more seamless.