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Jonni Bidwell has been reading licence minutiae and fears big business threatens the future of copyleft and software freedom.
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December 2021
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MEET THE TEAM
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Grandmaster clash
Ubuntu and Fedora are two of the big
REGULARS AT A GLANCE
Google to streamline its approach to the kernel
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Software Freedom Conservancy launches lawsuit against Vizio
TV manufacturer accused of GPL infringement
PinePhone Pro announced
New details on the premium Linux-based smartphone
TRAINED TO HIRE
Matt Yonkovit is Percona’s Head of Open Source
MANAGED CONTENT
Keith Edmunds is MD of Tiger Computing Ltd,
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Fedora Silverblue is envisioned as an image-based desktop OS alternative to standard Fedora
Linux gets Anti-Cheat support
Epic is bringing its Easy Anti- Cheat software to Linux
Mozilla messes up new Firefox
Firefox 93’s launch blighted by an avoidable PR blooper
Distro watch
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Alyssa Rosenzweig is a software engineer at Collabora,
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Solid-state drive performance
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NVMe drive performance
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Spinning rust drive performance
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Power loss tolerance
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Ease of use
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Flavours, spins, upgrades
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