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+44 +5How 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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+44 +9How 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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+43 +10Super-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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+49 +7Ubuntu 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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+39 +5Can 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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+41 +8Open source isn't ready for generative AI. How stakeholders are changing this light bulb together
Open-source licenses, already stretched thin by software-as-a-service and the cloud, are an even worse fit for AI's large language models. What's an open source leader to do?
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+43 +7OpenStack Unleashes Bobcat: A Leap Forward in Open-Source Cloud Infrastructure
The newest OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud release is out.
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+44 +6New cryptographic protocol aims to bolster open-source software security
The Linux Foundation, BastionZero, and Docker believe OpenPubkey bolsters zero-trust passwordless authentication.
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+58 +7Linux 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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+50 +12Chainguard'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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+41 +5A 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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+49 +8Why open source is the cradle of artificial intelligence
In the wildly competitive business of AI, is open source doomed to be always a bridesmaid, never a bride? Think again.
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+51 +8Linux Foundation Joins OpenTF to Fork for Terraform into 'OpenTofu'
The name OpenTofu may sound silly, but OpenTF and the Linux Foundation are quite serious about this Terraform fork.
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+38 +5OneAPI Computing Aims to Ease Multi-Architecture Computing
OneAPI is all about using universal APIs for parallel application development whenever possible.
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+43 +6Long-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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+33 +4The 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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+49 +9OpenSUSE 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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+43 +8Docker: The software development revolution continued
First, Docker transformed containers into a universally useful technology. Today, its development tools make it easy to create, package, and ship programs across all platforms.
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+41 +8Now it's PostgreSQL's turn to have a bogus CVE
PostgreSQL and cURL aren't the only ones. Someone is faking security alerts for numerous open-source projects.
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+30 +4CVE-2020-19909: A Controversial Vulnerability for cURL
Is the current CVE system too easily manipulated? Will it lead to inflated severity scores that do not reflect actual threats? A recent cURL vulnerability puts this question to the test.
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