“Asahi Linux for Apple M1 Macs is moving closer to reality,” writes Slashdot reader TroysBucket.
An Asahi developer posted a detailed status update on Twitter. Linux enthusiast Bryan Lunduke offers this succinct summary:
– The Asahi Linux team has …
Torvalds Merges Support for Microsoft’s NTFS File System, Complains GitHub ‘Creates Absolutely Useless Garbage Merges’
“Linux creator Linus Torvalds has agreed to include Paragon Software’s NTFS3 kernel driver, giving the Linux kernel 5.15 release improved support for Microsoft’s NTFS file system…” reports ZDNet, adding that the driver “will make working with Windows…
The Open Source Initiative Names Stefano Maffulli As Its First Executive Director
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has finally named its first Executive Director, Stefano Maffulli. ZDNet’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports: Maffulli is a long-time developer community manager. He co-founded and led the Italian chapter of Free Softwar…
Torvalds: GPLv2 ‘A Big Part’ of Why Linux Spread, Companies Getting Involved ‘Hugely Important’
Five years ago Linus Torvalds commemorated Linux’s 25th anniversary in an interview with ZDNet’s Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. Now that Linux is celebrating its 30th birthday, Vaughan-Nichols interviewed Torvalds again, who makes an important philosophica…
ByteDance, TikTok’s Parent Company, Joins the Open Invention Network
ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), the world’s largest non-aggression consortium that protects Linux and related open-source software and the companies behind them from patent attacks and patent trolls. ZDN…
Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation 2.13 Facilitates Quick Reaction To Kernel/User-space Instrumentation Hits
LTTng has been called “the killer app for system-level debugging and performance tuning.” And now long-time Slashdot reader compudj writes: It’s the official release of LTTng 2.13 — Nordicité! LTTng is a kernel and user-space tracer for Linu…
ElasticSearch Keeps Fighting Open Source Fork by Amazon AWS
In January ElasticSearch made what it calls “an incredibly hard decision” — to change the licensing on its scalable data-search solution. They called this an effort to “stand up to” Amazon’s AWS for offering ElasticSearch functionality as a servi…
Paragon Is Working To Get Its nfs3 Filesystem Into the Linux Kernel
Jim Salter writes via Ars Technica: In March of last year, proprietary filesystem vendor Paragon Software unleashed a stream of anti-open source FUD about a Samsung-derived exFAT implementation headed into the Linux kernel. Several months later, Parago…