Linus Torvalds Agrees to Kernel Lockdown
Oct 01, 2019The feature will let developers restrict root access to the kernel.
more »Richard Stallman Resigns from Free Software Foundation
Sep 17, 2019GNU founder came under fire for comments made on an internal MIT mailing list
more »Oracle Announces Autonomous Linux
Sep 17, 2019A new addition to Oracle Linux would eliminate cases like Equifax where failure to patch leads to disaster.
more »The New Kali Linux Is Here
Sep 04, 20192019.2 supports more Android devices.
more »exFAT Is Coming to Linux
Sep 04, 2019Microsoft has contributed exFAT patents to OIN and also published specifications.
more »Knoppix 8.6 Released
Aug 20, 2019The latest version of the classic Live Linux comes with KDE Plasma 5.
more »openSUSE Board Gets a New Chairman
Aug 20, 2019Richard Brown is replaced by Gerald Pfeifer.
more »Linux Mint 19.2 “Tina” Released
Aug 06, 2019The latest version of Linux Mint brings many performance improvements.
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Linux Hits an Important Milestone
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Plasma Bigscreen Returns
A developer discovered that the Plasma Bigscreen feature had been sitting untouched, so he decided to do something about it.
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CachyOS Now Lets Users Choose Their Shell
Imagine getting the opportunity to select which shell you want during the installation of your favorite Linux distribution. That's now a thing.
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Wayland 1.24 Released with Fixes and New Features
Wayland continues to move forward, while X11 slowly vanishes into the shadows, and the latest release includes plenty of improvements.
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Bugs Found in sudo
Two critical flaws allow users to gain access to root privileges.
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Fedora Continues 32-Bit Support
In a move that should come as a relief to some portions of the Linux community, Fedora will continue supporting 32-bit architecture.
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Linux Kernel 6.17 Drops bcachefs
After a clash over some late fixes and disagreements between bcachefs's lead developer and Linus Torvalds, bachefs is out.
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ONLYOFFICE v9 Embraces AI
Like nearly all office suites on the market (except LibreOffice), ONLYOFFICE has decided to go the AI route.
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Two Local Privilege Escalation Flaws Discovered in Linux
Qualys researchers have discovered two local privilege escalation vulnerabilities that allow hackers to gain root privileges on major Linux distributions.
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