How IBM is Destroying Red Hat’s Independence: The $34 Billion Betrayal
IBM paid $34 billion for Red Hat with promises of independence. Six years and 91% revenue growth later, they’re breaking every promise…
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Will They Marry? Linux and Rust in 2026
Rust is now permanent in the Linux kernel. After 3 years of testing, production Android deployments, and Debian mandating Rust for APT, the…
Linux Desktop Market Share: From Hype Cycles to Sustained Growth
Linux crossed 4% global market share and held it for three months. After 20 years of false starts, the data suggests something…
GPL Enforcement After VIZIO: What Code Sharing Really Means
December 2025 VIZIO ruling clarifies GPL source code requirements. Signing keys not required. Why both sides got it wrong.
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS: Open Source NVIDIA Drivers Go Stable
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS arrives February 2026 with production-ready NVK Vulkan driver. Mesa 25.2.7 and Linux 6.17 bring stable open-source…
Gentoo Linux 2025: $12K Budget, $104K in Bank
Gentoo Linux operates on $12K annually with $104,831 in reserves. Their 2025 retrospective reveals how volunteer-driven open source…
Linux Foundation Revenue Milestone: Breaking $300 Million Barrier
Linux Foundation hits $311M revenue in 2025. Here’s where the money actually goes and why $8.4M for the kernel concerns me.
Linux 6.19 Kernel: HDR, Gaming Handhelds, and Why Hardware Finally Gets Serious Support
Linux 6.19 brings HDR color pipelines, gaming handheld drivers, and 4x networking gains
Ubuntu Flavour Crisis: MATE and Unity Skip LTS 26.04
Ubuntu MATE and Unity skip LTS 26.04. Open source sustainability reaches a breaking point in 2026.
htop to btop++: How Linux Process Monitors Actually Evolve
htop dominated Linux monitoring for 16 years. Then its creator burned out. The community fork and modern alternatives reveal how open…