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Category: Linux Updates
Linux Updates
Linux Foundation offers free WebAssembly online class
WebAssembly, despite its name, is far more useful than just as a stack-based virtual machine (VM) for web browsers. It’s increasingly being used to address a wide variety of programming
1Password releases full-featured Linux desktop application
I used to pride myself on being able to remember dozens of complex passwords. But, now I need to remember hundreds of passwords and I just can’t do it. That’s
Linux and open-source communities rise to Biden’s cybersecurity challenge
Anyone who thought computer security problems were some abstract trouble that had little to do with their daily life was rudely awakened recently. The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack saw gas
Porting Linux’s eBPF to Windows 10 and Windows Server
Can you run eBPF on Windows? Sure, if you’re using Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0. Of course, there you’re running it on the Linux kernel on Windows 10. But running
Linux’s Technical Advisory Board reports on the UMN ‘Hypocrite Commits’ patches
The fire between the Linux kernel community and the University of Minnesota (UMN) is being put out. Thanks to an ill-thought-out Linux security project, two UMN graduate students tried to
The Free Software Foundation reveals how RMS was re-elected and its future
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) re-admitting its founder Richard M. Stallman (RMS) to its board in late March caught everyone, including FSF members and staff, by surprise. Many — both
New Relic open sources Pixie, its Kubernetes-native in-cluster observability platform
The good news is that cloud computing, Kubernetes, and cloud-native computing have combined to make software development faster and more powerful than ever. The bad news is that keeping an
CentOS alternative AlmaLinux gets commercial support
For many years, CentOS Linux was beloved by Linux-savvy system administrators because they could use it and get all the goodness of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) without paying for
The most popular Fedora Linux in years rolls out
Red Hat’s community Linux distribution Fedora has always been popular with open-source and Linux developers, but this latest release, Fedora 34 seems to be something special. As Matthew Miller, Fedora
University of Minnesota responds to Linux security patch requests
If you’re just catching up on this story, here’s the quick recap: University of Minnesota researchers deliberately submitted patches that would have put the Use-After-Free (UAF) vulnerability into the Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 arrives and take Linux to computing’s edge
Arpit Joshipura, The Linux Foundation‘s general manager of networking, once said “edge computing will overtake cloud computing” by 2025. By edge computing, Joshipura meant open compute and storage resources that
The Linux Foundation’s demands to the University of Minnesota for its bad Linux patches security project
To say that Linux kernel developers are livid about a pair of University of Minnesota (UMN) graduate students playing at inserting security vulnerabilities into the Linux kernel for the purposes
Ubuntu 21.04 makes a play for the enterprise desktop
I love Ubuntu Linux. If you’re reading this chances are you’re fond of Ubuntu too. Besides hardcore Linux desktop fans, Ubuntu’s also a hit with serious artificial intelligence (AI) and
Kubernetes dockershim to live on
When Kubernetes 1.23 is released towards the end of 2021, it will no longer include dockershim. This program enables you to use the Docker containerd container runtime within Kubernetes. Unfortunately,
