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Jan 23, 2013Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.
more »Canonical Announces Ubuntu For Phones
Jan 03, 2013Canonical announces a smartphone interface for the Ubuntu operating system.
more »Kernel Rootkits Kernel rootkits and countermeasures
Dec 19, 2012Rootkits allow attackers to take complete control of a computer. We describe the tricks intruders use to gain access to the Linux kernel and provide guidelines on hardening the kernel against such attacks.
more »Kernel News Zack’s Kernel News
Dec 19, 2012Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.
more »Slax 7 Release Candidate 1 Announced
Nov 24, 2012Slax 7 features KDE4 with an assortment of pre-installed software and recovery tools.
more »Oracle Introduces RedPatch
Nov 15, 2012Oracle creates a new Git repository for tracking Linux kernel changes.
more »Linaro Enterprise Group Formed
Nov 08, 2012Linaro announces the formation of the Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG). Linaro is a not-for-profit engineering organization that develops open source software for ARM architecture.
more »Slackware 14 Released
Oct 04, 2012After five beta cycles, Slackware 14.0 arrives with many improvements and enhancements. The latest version offers two desktop environments: Xfce 4.10.0 and KDE 4.8.5.
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Go-Based Botnet Attacking IoT Devices
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KaOS 2025.05 Officially Qt5 Free
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Linux Kernel 6.15 Now Available
The latest Linux kernel is now available with several new features/improvements and the usual bug fixes.
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Microsoft Makes Surprising WSL Announcement
In a move that might surprise some users, Microsoft has made Windows Subsystem for Linux open source.
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Red Hat Releases RHEL 10 Early
Red Hat quietly rolled out the official release of RHEL 10.0 a bit early.
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openSUSE Joins End of 10
openSUSE has decided to not only join the End of 10 movement but it also will no longer support the Deepin Desktop Environment.
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New Version of Flatpak Released
Flatpak 1.16.1 is now available as the latest, stable version with various improvements.
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IBM Announces Powerhouse Linux Server
IBM has unleashed a seriously powerful Linux server with the LinuxONE Emperor 5.
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Plasma Ends LTS Releases
The KDE Plasma development team is doing away with the LTS releases for a good reason.