Category: Linux Updates

What is the Alpha-Omega Project? Its purpose is to “improve global open source software supply chain security by working with project maintainers to systematically look for new, as-yet-undiscovered vulnerabilities in open-source

In the last year and a half, one cybersecurity mess after another — the SolarWinds software supply chain attack, the log4j vulnerability, the npm bad code injection — have made it

As Kubernetes users know, Rancher is a popular complete software stack for running and managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure. Now, since Linux and cloud-power SUSE acquired Rancher, it’s

If it’s not one thing, it’s another. After one real Linux problem — the heap overflow bug in the Linux kernel’s fs/fs_context.c program — is found and fixed, then a new security

Once upon a time in the 2000s and 2010s, Patrick McHardy was the chair of Linux’s Netfilter core development team. Netfilter is a Linux kernel utility that handles various network

Want a good-paying programming job? By ZipRecruiter‘s count, the average annual pay for an open-source developer in the United States is $123,411. That’s not bad.  There’s also a lot of

Most reported Linux “security” bugs actually aren’t Linux bugs. For example, security vendor CrowdStrike‘s report on the biggest Linux-based malware families was really about system administration security blunders with telnet,

Thanks to Solarwinds and Log4j, we know it’s all too easy to have our systems busted thanks to software supply chain problems. To help us with this, Mirantis, the cloud

Today, everyone — yes, even Microsoft — use Linux and open-source. It’s been years since Linux was under attack by SCO for imaginary copyright violations, and then Microsoft CEO Steve

Chances are unless you’re a JavaScript programmer, you’ve never heard of the open-source Javascript libraries ‘colors.js‘ and ‘faker.js.” They’re simple programs that respectively let you use colored text on your

Even if you’d never buy a Tesla, electric vehicles (EVs) are the future. There’s only one big problem. Unlike a gas-based car, where you can always find a gas station

I’ve been using Linux desktop distros for almost 30 years. Recently, I looked at many of the top Linux desktop distros both for beginners and for experts. Then, I spent the

In 1992, the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) was introduced in Unix circles as a new, improved network packet filter. Nice, but not that big a deal. Then, in 2014, it

Last year, Linux’s source code came to a whopping 27.8 million lines of code. It’s only gotten bigger since then. Like any 30-year old software project, Linux has picked up

Linux is everywhere. It’s what all the clouds, even Microsoft Azure, run. It’s what makes all 500 of the Top 500 supercomputers work. Heck, even desktop Linux is growing if