Because the technology is too old, Linus recently marked the floppy driver in Linux as “orphaned”. Linus merged the developer’s Denis Efremov on fixing the floppy ioctl verification problem and pointed out that the...
Earlier this month, Canonical announced that Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish will complete its lifecycle on Thursday, and for users, it is now an ideal time to upgrade to a higher version. As with all...
Mageia is a branch of Mandriva Linux that was formed in September 2010 and was created by the former employee and contributor of the popular Linux distribution from France. Unlike Mandriva’s business entity, the Mageia...
The proposal to stop building 32-bit x86 (i686) cores for Fedora 31 was approved at the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCO) meeting last Friday. This meeting also mentioned the issue of whether to...
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS users can now install the latest version of the proprietary Nvidia driver via the regular Ubuntu update channel without having to use a separate PPA or manually install it in an...
Recently, Offensive Security has released Kali Linux for Raspberry PI 4. This new security-centric release was launched two weeks after the launch of the Raspberry PI 4, the most powerful mini-computer version to date....
Debian GNU/Hurd is a flavor of the Debianoperating system based on the Hurdmicrokernel, instead of more common Debian kernels such as Linux or FreeBSD. Debian GNU/Hurd has been in development since 1998, and made a formal release in...
On July 6th, 2019, Debian officially released the 10th largest version of the stable branch. This codenamed version is “buster” and will have a five-year support period. Debian 10 is equipped with multiple desktop...
Canonical issued a reminder today that Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) will stop supporting later this month and urge users to upgrade to the latest version as soon as possible. Ubuntu 18.10 was released on...
Whonix is an operating system focused on anonymity and security. It hides the user’s IP address/location and uses the Tor network to anonymize data traffic. This means the contacted server, network eavesdroppers, and operators...
At the KubeCon + CloudNative + Open Source Summit China conference, Linus Torvalds warned participants that software management is facing greater challenges, mainly because the two hardware issues are beyond the control of the...
openSUSE Leap 42.3 will be discontinued on June 30, 2019, meaning that the system will no longer receive software and security updates starting in July of this year. OpenSuSE Leap 42.3 was released two...
