Category: Linux Updates

The Linux and open-source community includes many strong leaders who are women and/or people of color, such as Nithya Ruff, the Linux Foundation‘s chairperson; Abby Kearns, Puppet‘s CTO; and Kelsey

Microsoft has just announced the release of Windows 365 and Cloud PC. This new service, built on top of Azure Virtual Desktop, enables you to bring their Windows 10 and

After IBM acquired Red Hat for $34 billion in October 2019 and then Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst was named IBM’s President three months later, most IBM and Red Hat

Mea culpa. I didn’t see this coming. I know Red Hat well; I personally know Jim Whitehurst, who seemed very happy as President of IBM; and I know a thing

In 1995, when Linux 1.x was the hot new Linux kernel, early Red Hat founding programmers Marc Ewing and Erik Troan created RPM. This software package management system became the

Business author and expert, H. James Harrington, once said, “If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t

The good news is the seven-year-old security bug in Linux systemd‘s polkit, used in many Linux distros, has been patched. The bad news is that it was ever there in

Linux is more secure than Windows. We all know that. But that doesn’t mean it has perfect security. Nothing does. CloudLinux is helping to improve Linux’s operational security with the

When the coronavirus vaccines first started arriving many assumed that most people would get a vaccine. But thanks to a shortage of supply in many countries, misinformation, and paranoia, even

Recently, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux kernel maintainer for the stable branch, blocked University of Minnesota developers from submitting any Linux patches because several had deliberately tried to introduce bad patches.

TikTok burst out of nowhere to become the hot new video-sharing social network. But, besides its old school competitors, such as Twitter, Quibi, and Instagram, it also has another rival,

When the Free Software Foundation (FSF) recently returned its disgraced founder Richard M. Stallman (RMS) to its board, the FSF board hadn’t reckoned with how others would see his return.

The question isn’t “Does someone have your user IDs and passwords?” I guarantee you someone has. Don’t believe me? Check for yourself at Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). I’ll wait.

(Image: CNET) Since 2016, one of the biggest mysteries in tech circles was “What the heck was Google Fuchsia operating system?” A Linux replacement? A Google-specific Linux distribution? The end

Not so long ago if you wanted to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), but not pay for support, you ran CentOS. Now, Red Hat has transformed CentOS into CentOS