On March 1st, 2021 with 58 comments
Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has revealed that inclement weather in the USA meant he recently endured six electricity-free days in his Portland, Oregon, home...
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On March 1st, 2021 with 142 comments
AmiMoJo shares a report: Last month, the Linux Mint team published a post on the organization's official blog about the importance of installing security...
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On February 28th, 2021 with 66 comments
Slashdot reader b-dayyy writes: CrowdSec is a massively multiplayer firewall designed to protect Linux servers, services, containers, or virtual machines...
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On February 27th, 2021 with 10 comments
Slashdot reader Finuz writes: Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2021.1, the latest version of its popular open source penetration testing platform....
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On February 27th, 2021 with 83 comments
ZDNet brings an update about the future of Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
When Red Hat, CentOS's Linux parent company, announced it was "shifting focus from CentOS...
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On February 24th, 2021 with 53 comments
Worried about the security of Linux and open-source code, Google is sponsoring a pair of full-time developers to work on the kernel's security. From a report:...
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On February 13th, 2021 with 280 comments
When Dave McKay first used computers, punched paper tape was in vogue, "and he has been programming ever since," according to his biography page at How-To...
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On February 11th, 2021 with 24 comments
According to Phoronix, AMD currently has several interesting job openings on the Linux front. From the report: While AMD has been delivering reliable Linux...
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On February 6th, 2021 with 13 comments
AlmaLinux describes itself as "an open-source, community-driven project that intends to fill the gap left by the demise of the CentOS stable release." And now...
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On February 4th, 2021 with 28 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Magma was developed by Facebook to help telecom operators deploy mobile networks quickly and easily. The...
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On January 31st, 2021 with 63 comments
"Gregory Kurtzer, co-founder of the now-defunct CentOS Linux distribution, has founded a new startup company called Ctrl IQ, which will serve in part as a...
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On January 27th, 2021 with 166 comments
A major vulnerability impacting a large chunk of the Linux ecosystem has been patched today in Sudo, an app that allows admins to delegate limited root access...
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On January 20th, 2021 with 129 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last month, Red Hat caused a lot of consternation in the enthusiast and small business Linux world when...
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On January 13th, 2021 with 48 comments
Jake Edge, writing at LWN: The problems with "vendoring" in packages -- bundling dependencies rather than getting them from other packages -- seems to crop up...
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On January 11th, 2021 with 93 comments
Charlotte Web writes: With Linux 5.10 having shipped as the latest Long Term Support (LTS) release to be maintained for at least the next five years, a...
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On January 9th, 2021 with 21 comments
Thelasko quotes gHacks: Linux Mint 20.1 is now available.
The first stable release of Linux Mint in 2021 is available in the three flavors Cinnamon, MATE...
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On January 5th, 2021 with 218 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Linux creator Linus Torvalds has accused Intel of preventing widespread use of error-correcting memory...
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On December 27th, 2020 with 33 comments
Phoronix reports:
It's been a turbulent year and 2020 is certainly ending interesting in the Linux/open-source space... If it wasn't odd enough seeing Sony...
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On December 24th, 2020 with 12 comments
Sony has published a new "hid-playstation" Linux kernel driver for bringing up the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller and will also be used for supporting...
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On December 15th, 2020 with 85 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: When Red Hat, CentOS's Linux parent company, announced it was "shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of...
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On December 8th, 2020 with 136 comments
Well here is a surprise for those that have long used CentOS as the community-supported rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux... CentOS 8 will end in 2021 and...
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On December 7th, 2020 with 214 comments
Writing for TechRepublic, open source advocate Jack Wallen predicts 2021 will be a year where open source technology dominates the world of big data even more...
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On November 30th, 2020 with 204 comments
From a recent report:
Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux Foundation fellow currently responsible for stable Linux kernel releases, shared the lessons he's learned...
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On November 17th, 2020 with 28 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: According to Bloomberg, EQT is planning an IPO for German Linux and enterprise software company SUSE. EQT is a...
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On November 7th, 2020 with 77 comments
"Security firm Kaspersky said Friday that it discovered a Linux version of the RansomEXX ransomware," reports ZDNet, "marking the first time a major Windows...
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On November 4th, 2020 with 46 comments
According to Phoronix, a Dell privacy driver is is being prepared for the Linux kernel. From the report: Beginning in Dell's 2021 laptop models they are...
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On November 3rd, 2020 with 33 comments
Mint's programmers, led by lead developer, Clement "Clem" Lefebvre, have built their own take on Google's open-source Chromium web browser. ZDNet reports: ...
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On November 2nd, 2020 with 7 comments
Dan Kohn, leader of the Linux Foundation's Public Health (LFPH) initiative and former executive director at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), has...
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On November 2nd, 2020 with 42 comments
SiFive today announced it is creating a platform for Linux-based personal computers based on RISC-V processors. VentureBeat reports: Assuming customers adopt...
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On November 1st, 2020 with 50 comments
"The Linux Foundation has formed a new group to provide public health authorities with free technology for tracking the spread of the coronavirus and future...
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Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.
