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Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended. The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending July 17, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.
Elon Musk promises to open source all of X, ‘no exceptions,’ once the security team is done poking at it. The missing detail: what ‘open’ actually means in Musk‑speak. The post Elon to Open Source X’s Codebase. Believe It When Git Happens. appeared first on FOSS Force.
What began as one developer’s need to test a Floppy Emu device grew into a full set of SWIM driver fixes for aging Apple hardware. The post Linux Patches Keep 1980s–90s Macs Spinning Their Floppies appeared first on FOSS Force.
The removal of GPL code from FreeBSD 16’s base system isn’t just housekeeping — it reflects a BSD vision of “software freedom” that differs from FSF, Gnu, and Linux. The post FreeBSD 16 Cleans House: No GPL Left in the Base System appeared first on FOSS Force.
System76’s refreshed Adder Pro trims weight, adds Panther Lake silicon and RTX 50‑series GPUs, and ships with Pop!_OS or Ubuntu for Linux‑first power users. The post New Adder Pro Targets Linux Creators, Gamers, and Devs with OLED and RTX Graphics appeared first on FOSS Force.
Europe’s drive for digital sovereignty is reshaping how public agencies and regulated organizations choose, host, and govern open source platforms—from Drupal to Nextcloud. The post What Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Push Means for Open Source Platforms appeared first on FOSS Force.
From wall sockets to file formats, our lives depend on shared rules that no one owns. LibreOffice's Italo Vignoli argues that open standards are not just technical details, but civic commitments. The post Without Open Standards, Nothing Fits appeared first on FOSS Force.
Built on debsecan, debvulns‑exporter surfaces Debian security metadata for Prometheus and Grafana. The post Deb Dev Builds Graphical Debian Vulnerability Exporter for Prometheus appeared first on FOSS Force.
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A dust-up in OpenMandriva’s dev ranks escalates from abusive chats to vanished repositories and a ‘saboteur’ package that threatens Gnome and Cosmic users. The post In an Angry Fit, Dev ‘Sabotages’ OpenMandriva Repository appeared first on FOSS Force.
The only elephant in the room isn't in the oval office. For enterprises dependent on IT -- meaning every enterprise on the planet these days -- there's an elephant in every server and in every data center. Unless you're air-gapped, that's any code that's running. The post Lightwell: Red Hat’s and IBM’s AI Defense Against AI-Based Attacks appeared first on FOSS Force.
We get down and dirty with Collabora Office 26.04, the new desktop twin to Collabora Online, to see how it stacks up against LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Euro‑Office and, yes, Microsoft Office. The post Collabora Office 26.04 Takes On Open Source’s Office Disrupter Wannabes appeared first on FOSS Force.
Digital sovereignty is driving European governments off US clouds and onto homegrown open source options. The post Another German State Swaps Microsoft for ‘Born in the EU’ Open Source appeared first on FOSS Force.
Proprietary formats, rendering choices, and font restrictions don’t just create interoperability failures, they make open alternatives appear unreliable and keep institutions locked in. The post How Proprietary Vendors Make Open Standards Look Broken appeared first on FOSS Force.
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