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64 articles
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When the Cathedral Ate the Bazaar: How Corporate Power Consumed Open Source
Eric Raymond predicted the open bazaar would beat the corporate cathedral. For a while it did. Then the cathedral bought the stalls. How acquisitions, license changes and platform lock-in reshaped open source, what the…
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2025 State of Tech Talent Report
The Linux Foundation surveyed more than 500 hiring and training leaders. They expect AI to add value, they're short of people who can build it, and most would rather train their own staff than hire. The key numbers and…
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We Are Now Powered by the FAIR Package Manager
LinuxExpert.org now gets its WordPress plugins and themes through FAIR, the Linux Foundation's new federated package manager. What FAIR is, why a WordPress site would want it, and what it changes for us.
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Supercharge Your Workflow
A free, GPL-licensed set of Bash scripts for the jobs Linux admins repeat every week, backups, log rotation, updates, users, services and a basic security audit, written to work across distributions. What's in it and…
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From Licenses to Liberation
I started out on Banyan VINES, NetWare and Windows NT, and came to Linux in 1996 to get out of a licensing problem. A look back at how Linux grew from a workaround into the thing everything runs on, what's still weak…
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Why LinuxExpert.org Is Permanently Leaving Facebook
Meta has said it will end third-party fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, starting in the US. That was the last push. LinuxExpert.org is leaving Facebook for good, and putting its effort into open, federated places…
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OPINION: Why Linus Torvalds’ Decision to Exclude Russian Contributors is Justified
Last week about a dozen maintainers tied to sanctioned Russian companies were removed from the Linux kernel's maintainers list, and Linus Torvalds refused to reverse it. What actually happened, what it does and doesn't…
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Is Red Hat the New SCO?
SCO tried to make money from Linux by claiming to own part of it, and sued until it went bankrupt. Red Hat hasn't sued anyone. But its move to put RHEL's source behind a subscription agreement uses contracts to restrict…
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Repercussions of Closed Sourcing in Open Source Realms
Last week Elastic, which closed its license in 2021, added an open source one back. Three years of relicensing by MongoDB, Elastic, HashiCorp, Redis and now CockroachDB have produced enough evidence to judge the…
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Introduction to OpenCTI
OpenCTI is an open source platform for organizing cyber threat intelligence: who's attacking whom, with what, and how to spot them. What threat intelligence actually is, how OpenCTI models it with STIX, how it compares…
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Debian turns 31!
On August 16, 1993, a Purdue student named Ian Murdock announced a new Linux distribution built in the open by volunteers. Thirty-one years later Debian is the foundation of Ubuntu, Mint, Raspberry Pi OS, Kali and…
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OPINION: How Politics Threaten Innovation
Open source only works because code crosses borders freely and someone pays the people who maintain it. Three political currents are pushing against both: markets that reward taking without giving back, nationalism that…