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....
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...
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...
GeckoLinux derives from the openSUSE distribution, which is characterized by elegance and out-of-the-box accessibility for the desktop. The release features a number of desktop styles that can be installed from a self-starting CD. OpenSUSE...
