Earlier this week, the Linux Kernel 4.17 kernel branch received the 19th maintenance release update, which is the last maintenance update for the branch and will no longer receive updates. The Linux Kernel 4.17 branch...
Imad Sousou, vice president of Intel’s Software and Services Group (SSG) and general manager of the Open Source Technology Center, recently published an article titled “A Letter to the Industry “, which announces the development of...
Canonical’s Steve Langasek announced on Friday that the upcoming Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) entered the functional freeze and Debian import freeze development phase. Functional freezing is a significant development phase of the GNU/Linux distribution, meaning...
Ubuntu and CentOS are disabling a security feature added to the GNOME desktop environment last year – Bubblewrap. This is a sandbox environment that was added to GNOME 3.26 as a thumbnail parser in July last...
Today, Kali Linux developer team release Kali Linux 2018.3. Kali Linux is a Debian-based distribution for digital forensics and penetration testing, developed and maintained by Offensive Security. Mati Aharoni and Devon Kearns rewrote BackTrack....
Recently, Canonical released a series of important Linux kernel updates for all supported Ubuntu releases to address more than 50 security vulnerabilities affecting various kernel components. The new kernel security update is now available...
In June of this year, OpenBSD announced plans to disable Hyper-Threading support for Intel CPUs due to concerns about more Spectre variants. On August 23, OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt announced on the mailing list that OpenBSD-current (6.4) would officially disable the...
In the daily build of Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) released today, the new Yaru (formerly known as Communitheme) theme is enabled by default. When the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) was released a few months...
Barry Kauler announces that the new Linux distribution Quirky has released version 8.6. Quirky is a sister project of Puppy Linux, a Linux distribution created with a custom tool called Woof. The underlying infrastructure, such as startup...
Debian has a very high reputation and influence in the open source world. Many GNU/Linux systems, including Ubuntu, are based on Debian. The Debian system was released on August 16, 1993, so today the Debian...
After two months of development, the official version of Linux Kernel 4.18 was finally released on 12 August. Compared to Linux Kernel 4.17, Linux Kernel 4.18 is much lighter, reducing the number of lines of...
The Linux Foundation has released a free e-book dedicated to the enterprise – “Enterprise Open Source: A Practical Introduction”, which outlines how companies should respond to the wave of open source. Image: Linux Foundation According to the...
Currently, Chrome OS supports three application types: its Chrome app, Android app, and a Linux app. However, to install Linux applications, you also need to be familiar with the command line execution code and only...
The openSUSE project team announced this week that openSUSE Leap 42.3 is expected to receive a six-month support period extension to allow more users to upgrade to openSUSE Leap 15. The earlier release of openSUSE...
Recently, the Linux kernel was exposed to a Denial of Service Attack Vulnerability (CVE-2018-5390) SegmentSmack. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger tcp_collapse_ofo_queue() and tcp_prune_ofo_queue() function calls by sending specially modified packets in...
The Linux-based Chrome OS 68 stable release was released today with the latest version number 68.0.3440.87 (platform version is 10718.71.2/3), which introduces many new features while enhancing performance and security. The biggest highlight is...
