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Without Open Standards, Nothing Fits July 13, 2026

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.

Italo Vignoli

Deb Dev Builds Graphical Debian Vulnerability Exporter for Prometheus July 12, 2026

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.

Christine Hall

FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending July 10, 2026 July 12, 2026

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 10, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.

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In an Angry Fit, Dev ‘Sabotages’ OpenMandriva Repository July 9, 2026

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.

Christine Hall

Lightwell: Red Hat’s and IBM’s AI Defense Against AI-Based Attacks July 9, 2026

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. The post Lightwell: Red Hat’s and IBM’s AI Defense Against AI-Based Attacks appeared first on FOSS Force.

Christine Hall

The Year That Was & The Year That Will Be

By Christine Hall on December 30, 2001

by Christine Hall

A little over a year ago, I dusted off my astrology books to see what the stars would say about 2001 for this column. Looking back, the accuracy was downright frightening. The economy would be a roller coaster ride, I wrote, the situation in Israel would continue to deteriorate, there was a good chance of war or wars, and terrorism would escalate across the globe and possibly might hit within the boundaries of the United States.

What The Numbers Say About September 11, 2001

By Christine Hall on September 21, 2001

by Christine Hall

September 11th has always been a special day for me because it’s my father’s birthday. If he was alive, he would have turned seventy on the day that four highjacked airliners wrecked havoc on New York City, Washington, D.C., and rural Pennsylvania. Because of this personal connection, I know some rather trivial things about this date. For example, I know that this year Christmas will fall on a Tuesday, because September 11th and Christmas Day always fall on the same day of the week.

Bob Dylan Turns 60

By Christine Hall on June 5, 2001

Most of us baby boomers were caught off guard when it was announced several weeks back that Bob Dylan was celebrating his sixtieth birthday. It didn’t surprise us, mind you, since all of us from that generation have gotten used to graying or thinning hair, wrinkles and sags, a gradual decline in energy, and all of the rest that accompanies getting older. But the thought of Dylan getting ready to collect his social security… Well, it doesn’t make sense somehow.

The Prophecies of the Native Americans Part I: The Hopi Visions

By Robert A. Nelson on June 3, 2001

In the course of their communion with the Great Spirit, native Americans have received many visions of the destiny of civilization on this continent. The…

Give Me That New Age Religion

Give Me That New Age Religion

By Christine Hall on April 25, 2001

In this article from 1993, Christine Hall takes a look at the New Age community as it existed in America at that time. Looking back, some things are timeless, for in many ways this same article could be written today, more than a fifth of the way through the 21st Century.