VanMoof ebikes is currently “exploring all possible routes out of its debt” after rumors of a pending bankruptcy. But the blog 9to5Mac highlights another concern.

“If the company goes under, and the servers go offline, that could leave ebike owners u…

Long-time Slashdot reader Amiga Trombone shares a report from Phoronix: With Red Hat now restricting access to the RHEL source repositories, AlmaLinux and other downstreams that have long provided “community” rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with 1…

Wikipedia defines the Yocto Project as “a Linux Foundation collaborative open source project whose goal is to produce tools and processes that enable the creation of Linux distributions for embedded and IoT software that are independent of the underlyi…

This week the Linux Foundation shared an update on the Zephyr Project, a small real-time operating system for connected, resource-constrained and embedded devices:

The project recently achieved several milestones including surpassing 80,000 commits si…

Linux Foundation Europe “has announced the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project to help facilitate more performant, commercial-ready software for the RISC-V processor architecture,” reports Phoronix.

“Among the companies joining the RISE Project …

Slashdot reader Zapotek brings an update from the Ecsypno skunkworks, where they’ve been busy with R&D for distributed computing systems:
Armed with Cuboid, Qmap was built, which tackled the handling of nmap in a distributed environment, with great…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Bluesky Social, the popular new beta social network, is taking a big open-source step forward. On May 15th, 2023, it open-sourced the codebase for its Bluesky Social app on GitHub. This fits well with its…

Long-time open source advocate Matt Asay writes in InfoWorld:

OpenSearch shouldn’t exist. The open source alternative to Elasticsearch started off as Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) answer to getting outflanked by Elastic’s change in Elasticsearch’s licen…

ZDNet reports that Jim Zemlin, executive director at the Linux Foundation, recently noted rounds of tech-industry layoffs “in the name of cost-cutting.”

But then Zemlin added that “open source is countercyclical to these trends. The Linux Foundation i…

Last year Python’s massive PyPI repository of pre-written software packages had 235.7 billion downloads — a 57% annual growth in its download counts and bandwidth. So now Python’s nonprofit Python Software Foundation has an announcement.
Their d…