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OpenSUSE has dropped an update to its Linux distro, Leap 15.3, eleven months after the previous release. This new release includes updates to the desktop environments KDE, Gnome, Xfce and Sway; new packages for education, research and health; artificial intelligence packages; improvements to containers and virtualisation. The team at OpenSUSE has been working hard behind the scenes as well. Leap
Linus Torvalds, the developer of the Linux kernel, has approved new terms that will replace the master/slave terminology, and the blacklist/whitelist terminology, ZDNet reported. The newly approved terms are neutral language. The trend to clean-up insensitive language from source code, tools, and tech documentation began after Black Lives Matter protests erupted in the US, sparked by the death of George
For Linux fans, there’s a new version of OpenSUSE Leap out today, bringing the version number to 15.2. OpenSUSE is one of the big Linux distributions so it’ll be a solid release. "Leap" is the distribution's traditional regular release programme, compared with the rolling release of "Tumbleweed". In additional to the 5.3.18 kernel, KDE is bumped to 5.18 and Gnome
Remember that antitrust lawsuit a few years back against Microsoft? The one where Bill Gates said shipping Windows with Netscape preinstalled would be like Pepsi shipping its soda packs with a can of Coca-Cola? That's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the news that certain Linux installations will soon be available thru the online Windows
In business it's a tough decision between Windows and Linux -- we're not talking end-user, Microsoft's operating system has that mostly nailed. We're talking back-end -- the power behind everything else. And, at an increasing rate, that means Linux and the cloud. Today Microsoft is introducing Red Hat Linux on its Azure platform. The company's vice president of cloud and
In the same way as you wait ages for a bus only for two to come along at once, it's the season for new Linux releases. Today Canonical released Ubuntu 14.10, aka Utopic Unicorn, and in less than two weeks OpenSuSE will push out 13.2. I'm a SuSE user so I'll be downloading that over the weekend and getting stuck in. It's
While reviews of Windows 8.x have been mixed, it seems there is a perception problem with the general public about Microsoft's latest operating system. Version 8 was largely hated, and 8.1 only went so far in fixing those issues. The company plans to go further when "Threshold", or Windows 9, debuts later this year. However, if you'd like to at