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Ubuntu Core Linux Developer Preview is ready for testing
Spun off from Canonical's Internet of Things Linux, the immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop is moving closer to reality.
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New Tripartite Initiative Aims to Fortify Open-Source Cybersecurity
Education is key to securing software. To help that happen, the Linux Foundation Training & Certification, ISC2, and the OpenSSF.
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CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE unite behind OpenELA to take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
The day has come. As promised, three major business Linux companies have released the code for OpenELA, their challenge to RHEL.
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Heavy metal Linux 6.6 has arrived
The new version of Linux is here. The odds are that it will become the next long-term support version of Linux, so it deserves your attention.
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What Linux kernel maintainers do and why they need your help
Everyone uses Linux, and companies are willing to pay to develop it, but maintaining Linux's code? That's another matter.
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How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik')
The Dell XPS 13 is the best-known developer-focused, high-end Linux laptop. Here's how it got there.
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How AlmaLinux stays Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible without Red Hat code
It's not easy, but it can be done by pulling largely from the CentOS Stream codebase.
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Super-long-term stable Linux Kernel arrives
If your Linux plans include industrial infrastructure, power grids, and factories, the Linux Foundation's Civil Infrastructure Platform has a Linux kernel just for you with decade-long support.
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Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 arrives: A glimpse into Ubuntu Linux's future
With the latest Ubuntu Linux release, it's clear that Canonical is taking the Linux desktop seriously.
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Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act?
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and for open source this is a well meaning cluster fudge
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Nasty bug discovered in widely used Linux utility curl, and patches already rolled out
Curl is built into and silently used in numerous Linux distributions. A nasty security hole within it has been revealed and patched.
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Ubuntu Linux 23.10 is adding an important new security feature
This has the potential to significantly improve Linux desktop and container security.
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Patch now: This serious Linux vulnerability affects nearly all distributions
Qualys has discovered a nasty security hole, dubbed 'Looney Tunables', in the glibc C library. This means almost all Linux distributions have a bad security problem.
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Linux tries to dump Windows' notoriously insecure RNDIS protocol
Here we go again. Linux developers are trying, once more, to rid Linux of Microsoft's Remote Network Driver Interface Specification. Here's why it's complicated.
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Chainguard's Wolfi: Revolutionizing Containerized Workloads with Rapid Updates and Robust Security
A Small Octopus and a Big Idea: How Wolfi Linux is Improving the Cloud’s Software Supply Chain Security.
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A look back at 40 Years of GNU and the Free Software Foundation
It's fading from memory, but if it weren't for GNU and the Free Software Foundation, open-source, and Linux, indeed, most of our technology-driven world wouldn't be here.
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Chromebooks are forever... well, a decade
A decade of support is a much better deal than what Microsoft or Apple will give you
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Long-term support for Linux kernel to be cut as maintainence remains under strain
The Open Source Summit provides an update on what's new in the Linux kernel and where it's going from here.
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The invaluable opensource.com site is reborn as opensource.net
Thanks to the Open Source Initiative, one of the best open-source and Linux how-to and feature sites is coming back to life.
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OpenSUSE seeks a Leap replacement, but will distro community rise to the challenge?
Will it be Slowroll or Linarite -- or nothing at all? Programmers are conflicted about where the venerable Linux distro should go from here.
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