Tag: open-source
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German State Govt Switches to Linux
German state government ditching MS Windows for Linux, with 30,000 workers migrating. Schleswig-Holstein looks to succeed where Munich failed. Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office…
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Lesson from Open Source in Mexico
The adoption of open-source software in governments has had its ups and downs. While open source seems like a “no-brainer”, it turns out that governments can be surprisingly resistant to using FOSS for a variety of reasons. Federico González Waite spoke in the Open Government track at SCALE 22x in Pasadena, California to recount his experiences working with…
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OQTOPUS: A Quantum OS?
OQTOPUS: Japanese Researchers launch open-source quantum computer operating system. The University of Osaka, Fujitsu Limited, Systems Engineering Consultants Co., LTD. (SEC), and TIS Inc. (TIS) today announced the launch of an open-source operating system (OS) for quantum computers on GitHub, in what is one of the largest open-source initiatives of its kind globally. The Open…
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GIMP 3.0.2 Released To Fix Early Bugs
GIMP 3.0 was 7+ years in development before releasing as stable last week for this much anticipated, GTK3-ported image manipulation program update. Thankfully we’re not seeing any lengthy periods of time for new bug-fix releases with today already marking the release of GIMP 3.0.2. GIMP 3.0.2 is out to address bugs that have come up…
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Claude broke Linux Systems
Anthropic’s Latest Goof-Up Broke Linux Systems. The AI company was quick to rectify the problem. by Ankush Das In the tech world, it is all about experiments, mistakes, and building solutions to improve upon the existing system. Nothing is ever perfect, even after multiple iterations. That being said, when a notable company makes a mistake,…
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Linux 6.15 on Apple SoCs
More Apple Silicon Updates For Linux 6.15 Help M1/M2 Plus iPad / iPod / iPhoneWritten by Michael Larabel Already queued ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening later this month are DeviceTree support for Apple’s T2 SoCs as well as other DeviceTree additions set to be mainlined. A third round of DeviceTree patches were…
