Linux 6.1 will tell you when your CPU is crocked
The latest Linux kernel update is set to help server users detect faulty CPUs......»»
Torvalds warns the world: Don’t use the Linux 5.12-rc1 kernel
Please, please don't use cowboy kernels in production—especially not this one! Enlarge / Penguins aren't all equally trustworthy. (credit: Bernard Spragg) In a message to the Linux Kernel Mailing List yesterday, founding developer Linus Torv.....»»
Linus Torvalds Went Six Days Without Electricity, Swears Smaller 5.12 Kernel Is Co-Incidental
Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has revealed that inclement weather in the USA meant he recently endured six electricity-free days in his Portland, Oregon, home during which he was unable to tend to the kernel. As a result he therefore pondered adding.....»»
Linux Mint Developers Will Force Updates on Users Like Microsoft Does with Windows 10
AmiMoJo shares a report: Last month, the Linux Mint team published a post on the organization's official blog about the importance of installing security updates on machines running the Linux distribution. The essence of the post was that a sizeable.....»»
Introducing Crowdsec: a Modernized, Collaborative Massively Multiplayer Firewall
Slashdot reader b-dayyy writes: CrowdSec is a massively multiplayer firewall designed to protect Linux servers, services, containers, or virtual machines exposed on the Internet with a server-side agent. It was inspired by Fail2Ban and aims to be a m.....»»
Can "Ready" Crowdfund a Raspberry Pi Cyberdeck Enclosure for Cyberpunk Enthusiasts?
There's 29 hours left in a Kickstarter campaign to fund "an open source, Linux-based, highly modular, customizable portable computer kit that accommodates anything from a Raspberry Pi to a Ryzen x86 4x4 single-board computer and more," writes READY!1.....»»
Red Hat Introduces Free RHEL for Open-Source Organizations
ZDNet brings an update about the future of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 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 wer.....»»
Kali Linux 2021.1 Released: Tweaked DEs and Terminals, New Tools, Silicon Macs
Slashdot reader Finuz writes: Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2021.1, the latest version of its popular open source penetration testing platform. You can download it or upgrade to it. Kali NetHunter, the distro's mobile pentesting platform.....»»
Google Sponsors 2 Full-Time Devs To Improve Linux Security
Worried about the security of Linux and open-source code, Google is sponsoring a pair of full-time developers to work on the kernel's security. From a report: The internet giant builds code from its own repositories rather than downloading outside bi.....»»
Did Linux Kill Commercial Unix?
When Dave McKay first used computers, punched paper tape was in vogue, "and he has been programming ever since," according to his biography page at How-To Geek. It adds that "His use of computers pre-dates the birth of the PC and the public release o.....»»
AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers
According to Phoronix, AMD currently has several interesting job openings on the Linux front. From the report: While AMD has been delivering reliable Linux support with their recent launches, there is room for improvement in areas like more timely co.....»»
How to enforce password complexity on Linux
Deploying password-quality checking on your Debian-based Linux servers can help ensure that your users assign reasonably secure passwords to their accounts, but the settings themselves can be a bit misleading.For example, setting a minimum passwor.....»»
"No Support Linux Hosting" Shuts Down After Cyberattack
A web hosting company named No Support Linux Hosting announced today it was shutting down after a hacker breached its internal systems and compromised its entire operation. From a report: According to a message posted on its official site, the compan.....»»
The Open-Source Magma Project Will Become 5G"s Linux
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Magma was developed by Facebook to help telecom operators deploy mobile networks quickly and easily. The project, which Facebook open-sourced in 2019, does this by providing a software-centric distribut.....»»
Recent Root-Giving Sudo Bug Also Impacts macOS
A British security researcher has discovered this week that a recent security flaw in the Sudo app also impacts the macOS operating system, and not just Linux and BSD, as initially believed. From a report: The vulnerability, disclosed last week as CV.....»»
Containerize all the things with Ubuntu Core 20
What if everything—and we mean everything—was a container? Enlarge / You might draw a fairly similar schematic diagram to give someone a simplified idea of how a traditional Linux distribution is put together—but it wouldn't be as close to.....»»
While Recreating CentOS as "Rocky Linux", Gregory Kurtzer Also Launches a Sponsoring Startup
"Gregory Kurtzer, co-founder of the now-defunct CentOS Linux distribution, has founded a new startup company called Ctrl IQ, which will serve in part as a sponsoring company for the upcoming Rocky Linux distribution," Ars Technica reports: Kurtzer co.....»»
Rocky Linux gets a new sponsor—Gregory Kurtzer’s startup, Ctrl IQ
Money can't buy you love—but it can sponsor a new Linux distro. Enlarge / Ctrl IQ provided us with this diagram of its proposed technology stack. (Thankfully, spelling correction is not one of the core services Ctrl IQ offers.) (credit: Ctrl I.....»»
Rocky Linux gets a parent company, with $4m Series A funding
Money can't buy you love—but it can certainly help you start a new Linux distro. Enlarge / Ctrl IQ provided us with this diagram of its proposed technology stack. (Thankfully, spelling correction is not one of the core services Ctrl IQ offers......»»
10-year-old Sudo Bug Lets Linux Users Gain Root-Level Access
A major vulnerability impacting a large chunk of the Linux ecosystem has been patched today in Sudo, an app that allows admins to delegate limited root access to other users. From a report: The vulnerability, which received a CVE identifier of CVE-20.....»»
Why Red Hat killed CentOS—a CentOS board member speaks
"The CentOS Board doesn't get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do." Enlarge / CentOS Linux will be sleeping with the fishes in 2022. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) This morning, The Register's Tim Anderson published excerpts of.....»»