Tag: software
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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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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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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…
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Fedora supports RISC-V
Fedora Linux Now Supports RISC-V Processors The Fedora Linux project is “jumping on the RISC-V train,” joining other Linux distributions in supporting the emerging CPU architecture. RISC-V is an open-standard Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), intended as an alternative to the x86 architecture used in most desktop and laptops, and the ARM architecture used in most…
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Could Linux Lower Energy Use?
Two computer scientists at the University of Waterloo in Canada believe changing 30 lines of code in Linux “could cut energy use at some data centers by up to 30 percent,” according to the site Data Centre Dynamics. “… It’s the code that processes packets of network traffic, and Linux “is the most widely used…
