Did you know there’s an initiative to drive Open Source adoption both within the United Nations — and globally? Launched in March, it’s the work of the Digital Technology Network (under the UN’s chief executive board) which “works to advance open…

The Open Source Initiative is joining “a global community of contributors” for GitHub’s annual event “honoring the individuals who steward and sustain Open Source projects.”
And the theme of the 4th Annual “Maintainer Month” will be: securing Open Sou…

Redis, the popular in-memory data store, has returned to open source licensing with Redis 8 now available under the AGPL v3 license. The move reverses last year’s controversial shift to proprietary licensing schemes (RSALv2 and SSPLv1) that aimed to fo…

AMD has open-sourced its “GPU-IOV Module” for enabling SR-IOV-based virtualization on Instinct accelerators using the Linux kernel and KVM hypervisor, with features like GPU scheduling and VF/PF management. Notably, AMD plans to extend this virtualizat…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Whisky, a gaming-focused front-end for Wine’s Windows compatibility tools on macOS, is no longer receiving updates. As one of the most useful and well-regarded tools in a Mac gamer’s toolkit, it co…

In NoSQL database news, Arch Linux “is the latest Linux distribution replacing its Redis packages with the Valkey fork,” reports Phoronix.

Valkey is backed by the Linux Foundation, Google, Amazon Web Services, and Oracle, which the article points out…

Celebrating Git’s 20th anniversary, GitHub hosted a Q&A with Linus Torvalds, writes Its FOSS News.

Among the other revelations: He says his college-age daughter sent a texting saying he’s better known at her CS lab for Git than for Linux, “becaus…

Over on Reddit’s “selfhosted” subreddit for alternatives to popular services, long-time Slashdot reader Zoup described a pain point:

– Landlock is a Linux Security Module (LSM) that lets unprivileged processes restrict themselves.

– It’s been in th…

FaunaDB, a serverless database combining relational and document features, will shut down by the end of May due to unsustainable capital demands. The company plans to open source its core technology, including its FQL query language, in hopes of contin…

“There’s no shortage of videos showing Steam running on expensive ARM single-board computers with discrete GPUs,” writes Slashdot reader VennStone. “So I thought it would be worthwhile to make a guide for doing it on (relatively) inexpensive RK3588-pow…