The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit organization that promotes open-source software and defends the free software General Public License (GPL), sued major TV vendor Vizio for abusing the GPL. Specifically, Vizio is using Linux's source code and other open-source software, such as BusyBox, U-Boot, bash, gawk, tar, Glibc, and FFmpegis, in its SmartCast OS TV firmware. These programs are protected under the GPL version 2 (GPLv2) and the Lesser GPL (LGPL).

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Suit alleges stolen intellectual property in IBM AIX, and collusion with RHEL.

This nasty set of bugs can lead to an attacker gaining root access, but the patch is already available.

In upcoming releases, Linux Mint developers may insist that users install some patches.

Node.js is wildly popular, but it's not that easy to learn. Now, the Linux Foundation wants to help you pick it up with a new free online class.

Many open source organizations and companies are already headed by women, but there are many others who are ready for the boardroom.

AlmaLinux, the open-source enterprise-level Linux distribution created as an alternative to CentOS, has been released in beta with most Red Hat Enterprise Linux packages

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Corellium has managed the difficult trick of getting Linux running natively on Apple's new M1-powered Mac Mini in record time.

In response to complaints about Red Hat's latest plans for CentOS Linux, Red Hat will start offering no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux for small production workloads and customer development teams.

Security, lack of suitable hardware for testing makes full 32-bit support hard

Linus Torvalds would love to run Linux on an M1-powered Mac, and a crowd-sourced project is trying to port Linux to Apple's newest, but top Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman warns that it won't be easy.

Managing open-source projects is an art just as difficult as developing open-source programs, and now, there is a set of classes to help you master it.

With a background in open source, open standards, and security, Recordon may be ideal for President Joe Biden's White House.

No, it wasn't IBM calling the shots. This decision was made inside Red Hat for business reasons and it had been a long time coming.

With CentOS Stream now "tracking ahead" of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, where exactly does that leave Fedora, Red Hat's community Linux distro, and long-time RHEL test release?

The next long-term support version of Linux Mint is getting close to release.

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Red Hat is transforming CentOS into a DevOps-friendly, leading-edge rolling release. Many people liked it just the way it was. Now, CentOS's founder is working on giving them what they want.