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The Founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux Distribution Ubuntu, indicated on Thursday that the company will probably have its IPO sometime in 2023.

The Linux Foundation’s premiere North American event is scheduled to be staged June 21-24 in Austin, Texas. The event will also be live streamed for viewing at home.

Although All Things Open’s Meetups have returned to being in-person events focused on a local and regional audience, conference organizers this week announced a Meetup in May that will be virtual only, therefore available worldwide.

With the stable version of RHEL 9 expected to be released in May, AlmaLinux pushes its beta of version 9 out of the door and says it’s looking for testers.

Linux Mint has released the beta version of an upgrade tool that allows a one-click move from LMDE 4 to LMDE 5.

It appears that Erik Finman has been paying attention to the examples being set by a certain former president on how to run a successful business.

While it’s not going to be of much use to those running Linux on a desktop or laptop, minified versions of Linux like SUSE’s SLE Micro are becoming essential in the enterprise, both for DevOps teams working in containerized environments and for IoT devices running at the edge.

In this interview, Hohndel opines about the mistakes some proprietary companies make when they attempt to go open, the recent spate of “source available” licenses, how he came to be the one to interview Linus Torvalds at Open Source Summit every year, and more.

While the Open Source Security Foundation is active in all areas pertaining to open source security, developers might be most interested in OpenSSF’s free online Developing Secure Software certification program.

With Fedora's release party scheduled for May 12-14, and now Ubuntu planning a release party for 22.04 on May 1, it looks as if next month is going to be party month in the land of Linux.

With three full time employees and a robust community, Elementary OS went into this year as a Linux project that seemed to be on easy street. Today, it’s down to one employee, it’s funds are dwindling rapidly, but it still has an enthusiastic community and a determined leader with a particularly open source vision.

The Linux Foundation is accepting applications through April 3Oth for Linux Foundation Training Scholarships that offer free training and certification across 12 open source categories.

Although Richard Stallman seemed to be absent from this year’s LibrePlanet event, the Free Software Foundation has announced he will be livestreaming his “The Stare of the Free Software Movement” talk on April 13th at 2 p.m. Eastern Time.

The growth of SiFive and other companies focused on open source RISC-V-based processors will eventually bring the possibility of completely free and open computing to free and open source software advocates.

As AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux vie for dominance in the free RHEL replacement space that was abandoned by CentOS Linux, Alma appears to be making deeper inroads on several fronts.

If you’re a Fedora user, you might want to mark your calendar for May 12-14. It seems that the distro is planning a party for the release of Fedora 36.

More than 80 speakers from various open source fields will be giving presentations online on March 29th at Open Source 101, a single-day open source conference hosted by All Things Open.

Last year’s election for board members at Open Source Initiative was “hacked,” which necessitated a re-vote. Fortunately, this year’s election was a smooth experience.

In typical LibrePlanet fashion, even though forced online for the third year in a row by the pandemic, it remained true to its commitment to software freedom by streaming the event using only free and open source software.

CentOS replacement AlmaLinux on Friday released a new ISO for a version of it’s operating system that supports IBM’s open source Power processor.