We have been forgetting who the good guys are lately

Facebook’s bizarre censorship of Linux groups and the wholesome DistroWatch magazine was a mistake, the social notworking outfit has admitted.

Right wing good, open sauce bad

Social notworking site Facebook is censoring posts mentioning Linux-related topics, according to Linux news and discussion site DistroWatch.

Made some minor changes to Linux code

A team of boffins has emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a string of Linux code that they think can save 30 per cent on a data centre's power bill.

All roads will lead to Chromium

Even the Open Sauce movement thinks that Firefox is on its way out and is starting to get into bed with the sorts of names it previously spat when mentioning.

Probably about the same time as Linux on the desktop

Software King of the World, Microsoft wants 2025 to be "the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh."

Valve's steam survey December results

Valve's "Steam Survey" results for December 2024 indicate a notable upward trend for Linux gaming statistics.

From changing one line of code

Intel's Linux kernel test robot has recently reported a 3888.9 per cent performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel after Chipzilla geeks changed one line of code.

Great name for a dev computer

SiFive and generally RISC-V  are recently getting a lot of attention. With ARM and X86 well established in the market, many see RISC-V as a healthy alternative. The company is pacing out strongly as it stands out with its broad portfolio and being produced in silicon with billions of devices shipped,  from the many RISC-V competitors. Now the company announced the availability of the world’s highest performance RISC-V development board simply called SiFive HiFive Premier P550 board.

Theoretical attacks

The IT industry’s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds is finding himself vexed by hardware vendors with poor security and the plethora of actual and theoretical attacks.

37Signals gets off its cloud

The outfit, which publicly shames big-name vendors when it stops being their customers, has focused on Amazon’s cloud operations.