Quietly, both AMD and Intel have decided it’s time to finally clean up some truly ancient and funky CPU design choices, which date all the way back to the early
Category: Linux Updates
Linux Updates
Old Linux storage bugs, new security patches
One of the good things about Linux is that it supports so much old hardware. With just a bit of work, there’s almost no computing hardware that can’t run Linux.
SUSE prepares for multi-billion Euro IPO
The rumors were true. EQT, the Swedish-based private equity firm with €52 billion in assets, is getting ready to spin SUSE, the leading European Union (EU) Linux distributor, out in
Linus Torvalds fixes ‘double ungood’ Linux kernel bug
It wasn’t an ordinary week at Linux creator’s Linus Torvalds house in Portland, OR. A snowstorm had knocked out power to Torvalds’ home for the better part of a week. Despite
Linux Foundation announces new open-source software signing service
A few months ago, if you’d asked someone what their biggest concern was about IT security, you would have received lots of different answers. Then Solarwinds catastrophically failed to secure
Red Hat’s survey results on the state of enterprise open-source software
If you’re surprised 90% of IT leaders are using enterprise open-source software, you’ve been living under a rock for the last few decades. In its latest State of Enterprise Open
Linux Mint may start pushing high-priority patches to users
Community Linux distributions are easygoing with updates and patches. Yes, they’d like you to update, but they don’t insist on it. Now, though, the popular Linux Mint distribution has had
Linux Foundation and RISC-V International launch free RISC-V training classes
RISC-V, the emerging open-source instruction set processor architecture, is growing up. Sure, most of the attention has come from hardware hackers playing on RISC-V processors on development boards from companies
Red Hat introduces free RHEL for open-source, non-profit organizations
When Red Hat, CentOS‘s Linux parent company, announced it was “shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream,” CentOS users were not
Red Hat opens the door for both VMs and containers in its latest OpenShift release
Kubernetes is great for managing containers. But, as popular as containers are, we’re still running a lot of applications on virtual machines (VM). Wouldn’t it be nice if you could
Google funds Linux kernel developers to work exclusively on security
Hardly a week goes by without yet another major Windows security problem popping up, while Linux security problems, when looked at closely, usually turn out to be blunders made by
Red Hat closes StackRox Kubernetes security acquisition
In terms of money, Red Hat buying StackRox probably isn’t that big a deal. Sources say it was just above $100 million. Big money to you and me, but peanuts for
To infinity and beyond: Linux and open-source goes to Mars
Perseverance hit Mars’ atmosphere at almost 12,000 miles per hour (19,312 kilometers per hour) and a mere seven minutes later NASA landed its latest Mars rover softly and safely. Onboard the
Linux Foundation offers free Node.js class
Node.js isn’t a language, framework, or library. It’s an open-source JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine, which lives in the programming intersection of all three. While often used
Top banks join Linux and open-source patent protection group
When it comes to defending the intellectual property (IP) rights of Linux and open-source software, global leading banks aren’t the first businesses to come to mind. Things have changed. Barclays,