Recently, Alexander Popov, a Linux security developer from Positive Technologies, discovered and fixed five security vulnerabilities in the implementation of Linux kernel virtual sockets. Attackers can use this vulnerability (CVE-2021-26708) to obtain root permissions...
The open-source Linux operating system is changing the world in its own way, but surveys show that more open-source software and the Linux kernel need to do more work on security. For example, the...
Last month, Red Hat announced that it would provide free RHEL for small production environments, and now they have expanded the free RHEL to include projects, communities, standards bodies, and other open-source non-profit software...
Recently, Microsoft engineers contributed an integrity subsystem update for Linux 5.12, which has been merged into the main branch. The Linux Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA) subsystem introduces hooks in the inner core to support...
The official Linux Mint blog recently issued a notice to remind users to install security updates. The Linux Mint team mentioned that these security updates are very important because they will fix vulnerabilities in...
Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS has been released for a while, and the developers of Ubuntu found that they were in a tricky position to deal with the popular open-source email client: Thunderbird 68 is no...
According to the mailing list, in the upcoming Linux 5.12 merge window, the USB 4/Thunderbolt changes have been merged into the USB-next tree. These changes come from Intel, including changes to Thunderbolt and the...
Linux PC manufacturer System76 announced in March last year that it would build a customized Linux keyboard, and successively revealed the overall concept and content of the keyboard. Recently, Phoronix reported that System76 is...
More than ten years ago, Intel had high hopes for MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) as mobile Internet devices and their early launch of Menlow and Moorestown platforms. But looking back, Intel’s MID was ultimately...
Ubuntu Core 20 is the smallest containerized version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for IoT devices and embedded systems, and it is now fully available. Canonical said that this major version enhances device security through...
Canonical Design Team and Ubuntu Desktop Team are working together to develop a new installation program for the Ubuntu Desktop Installer. The installer will take full advantage of technologies such as Flutter (bring Flutter...
According to the mailing list, Ubuntu 21.04 will enable LTO support for its package construction. Link time optimization (LTO) is a method for optimizing multiple compilation units of the entire program during linking. The...
The FreeBSD development team announced that starting from FreeBSD 13.0, the level of support for the i386 architecture will be downgraded to Tier 2. In the future, FreeBSD 14.0 may further reduce the support...
Canonical set Wayland as the desktop default session as early as Ubuntu 17.10. In subsequent changes, the company has been testing Wayland and actively collecting user feedback. However, it was limited to the non-LTS...
Linux announced in 2017 that it would extend the support time limit of the “Long Term Support (LTS)” version from 2 years to 6 years. This means that the Linux 5.4 LTS released later...
The latest announcement from the Rocky Linux community shows that its development team plans to release the Release candidate (RC) version of Rocky Linux before the second quarter. The current development plan is as...
