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In Bookmarks today, Microsoft Linux may be in the works and Oracle is designing a nuclear-powered data centre.
The attempt to insert a secret backdoor into XZ Utils “may not be an isolated incident”.
Linux is gaining ground on the desktop as it becomes easier to use and as Microsoft’s attention shifts towards cloud services.
Open-source software may well be the greatest “public good” the market economy has ever produced.
China has released its first homegrown open-source desktop operating system, named OpenKylin.
In episode 3 of season 2 of Everything PC, hosts Duncan McLeod and Gerhard Pretorius have a look at the world of open-source software and Linux.
Linux, the free operating system that brought professional-grade computing to the lowly PC, has come a long way since doing something as simple as switching off meant performing secret handshakes or offering arcane prayers to the computer gods such as computername ~ # shutdown -h now. Today, practically all Linux distributions
For people who don’t use Windows, the day that Microsoft’s grip on the desktop is broken can’t come soon enough. The reason is simple: the technical divide created by the dominance of one operating system means that people who choose to use something different face constant discrimination