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Gentoo Linux ditches GitHub for an open-source European alternative

Gentoo Linux is migrating its repositories from GitHub to the open-source European alternative Codeberg, citing Microsoft's ...
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Microsoft makes the Windows Subsystem for Linux open source after almost a decade of development

Microsoft, at its recent BUILD event, has announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now open source after almost a decade of development. The Microsoft team has closed issue #1 in its GitHub ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft closes 9-year-old feature request, open-sources Windows Subsystem for Linux

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux has become an important tool for developers and power users since it was introduced in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update back in 2016, giving them access to a ...
ZDNet

Rust in Linux now: Progress, pitfalls, and why devs and maintainers need each other

Prominent Linux kernel developers gathered to share insights on kernel development's current state and future at a recent roundtable discussion during the Open Source Summit Europe in Vienna. The ...
ZDNet

What is open-source and how does it benefit you?

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...