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Firefox 48 Improves Stability By Isolating Web Page CrashesFirefox 48 Improves Stability By Isolating Web Page Crashes

Firefox 48 Improves Stability By Isolating Web Page Crashes

Firefox 48 will ensure one demanding web page doesn't freeze others, while Android gets better media support - even if…

9 years ago
OpenStack Gets Core Infrastructure Initiative Green LightOpenStack Gets Core Infrastructure Initiative Green Light

OpenStack Gets Core Infrastructure Initiative Green Light

OpenStack earns CII best practices badge for security, quality, and stability

9 years ago
Ubuntu Forums Breach Affects Two Million UsersUbuntu Forums Breach Affects Two Million Users

Ubuntu Forums Breach Affects Two Million Users

The breach resulted from an unpatched bug, Canonical admits

9 years ago
Microsoft Launches Brand New Skype For Linux AlphaMicrosoft Launches Brand New Skype For Linux Alpha

Microsoft Launches Brand New Skype For Linux Alpha

But Skype warns Linux users it's far from ready, as it needs feedback to help develop a better client

9 years ago
IBM SoftLayer Now Ubuntu Certified Cloud PartnerIBM SoftLayer Now Ubuntu Certified Cloud Partner

IBM SoftLayer Now Ubuntu Certified Cloud Partner

SoftLayer customers can now use certified Ubuntu Linux images in latest move from ongoing IBM Canonical partnerships

9 years ago
Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux Looks To Ditch 32-BitCanonical’s Ubuntu Linux Looks To Ditch 32-Bit

Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux Looks To Ditch 32-Bit

Canonical is the latest software maker looking to end support for Intel's once-great 32-bit platform

9 years ago
Red Hat Doubles Down on Containers, Takes a Swipe at CloudFoundryRed Hat Doubles Down on Containers, Takes a Swipe at CloudFoundry

Red Hat Doubles Down on Containers, Takes a Swipe at CloudFoundry

On the first day of the Red Hat Summit, Linux vendor Red Hat makes some incremental container announcements and belittles…

9 years ago
How Fuzzing Can Make A Large Open Source Project More SecureHow Fuzzing Can Make A Large Open Source Project More Secure

How Fuzzing Can Make A Large Open Source Project More Secure

Emily Ratliff of the Linux Foundation explains the considerations to take when planning to fuzz your open source project

9 years ago
How Linux Kernel Development Impacts SecurityHow Linux Kernel Development Impacts Security

How Linux Kernel Development Impacts Security

At CoreOS Fest, Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux kernel, declares that almost all bugs can be security issues

9 years ago
Linux Foundation Advances Security Efforts Via Badging ProgramLinux Foundation Advances Security Efforts Via Badging Program

Linux Foundation Advances Security Efforts Via Badging Program

The Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative's badging program matures, as the first projects to achieve security badges are announced

9 years ago
Canonical Offers Up LTS Release With Ubuntu 16.04Canonical Offers Up LTS Release With Ubuntu 16.04

Canonical Offers Up LTS Release With Ubuntu 16.04

Businesses running open source Ubuntu offered new long term support (LTS) release 16.04

9 years ago
Windows 10 Preview Adds Native Bash SupportWindows 10 Preview Adds Native Bash Support

Windows 10 Preview Adds Native Bash Support

Windows 10 insiders can test out new Linux development tools, with a few caveats

9 years ago
Mumblehard Linux Spamming Botnet Finally Taken OfflineMumblehard Linux Spamming Botnet Finally Taken Offline

Mumblehard Linux Spamming Botnet Finally Taken Offline

Thousands of servers running Linux and BSD had been affected by one of world's most damaging botnets

9 years ago
Microsoft ‘Poaches’ Top Linux Executive From OracleMicrosoft ‘Poaches’ Top Linux Executive From Oracle

Microsoft ‘Poaches’ Top Linux Executive From Oracle

Oracle loses Linux VP Wim Coekaerts to Redmond as Nadella prioritises open source

9 years ago
Microsoft Is Bringing The Linux Command Line To Windows 10Microsoft Is Bringing The Linux Command Line To Windows 10

Microsoft Is Bringing The Linux Command Line To Windows 10

Microsoft is launching a Windows Subsystem on Linux and has partnered with Canonical to deliver ‘Ubuntu on Windows’ for Windows…

9 years ago

Red Hat Crowns Itself First Ever $2bn Open Source Company

Full year earnings for Red Hat hit $2.05bn (£1.4bn), boosted by cloud offerings

9 years ago

Google Updates Android For Linux Kernel Flaw

Google issued an emergency patch for an Android vulnerability. An unrelated Stagefright flaw is also raising concern

9 years ago

Google Shares Details Of Its Software-Defined Load Balancer

The Maglev software-defined load balancer, which runs on commodity Linux servers, has been critical to Google Cloud Platform for eight…

9 years ago

Steve Ballmer: Linux Is No Longer ‘A Cancer’

Feisty ex boss of Microsoft ends hostility to Linux operating system and praises Satya Nadella's open source commitments

9 years ago

Microsoft Previews SQL Server For Linux

The move is Microsoft's latest to accommodate the popular open source platform

9 years ago

Raspberry Pi 3 Targets IoT With Integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth

Raspberry Pi 3 adds integrated connectivity and more processing power in bid to become an 'IoT hub'

9 years ago

Hackers Breach Linux Mint Distribution, Forums

Attackers manage to breach Linux Mint's security, adding a backdoor to the distribution and even stealing information from user forums.

9 years ago

How Linux Kernel Cgroups And Namespaces Made Modern Containers Possible

Computer service provider ElasticHosts offers insight into the underlying Linux Kernel technologies used by Docker, LXC and lmctfy

9 years ago

‘Catastrophic’ Glibc Flaw Threatens Linux And IoT Devices

Patch now. GlibC DNS vulnerability could have serious reach amongst Internet-connected devices

9 years ago

IBM Boosts Hybrid Cloud Capabilities On LinuxONE

IBM expands LinuxONE ecosystem with optimised Cloudant NoSQL database and StrongLoop API development technologies

9 years ago

A Look At Linux, Android Zero-Days And The Perils Of Patches

BLOG: A zero-day vulnerability is reported against Linux and Android, but the real risk lies in known issues that users…

9 years ago

Major Linux Kernel 4.5 Update Released For Testing

The new kernel, version 4.5, includes major driver improvements, including better 3D graphics support for the Raspberry Pi

9 years ago

Dell OS10 Promises Open Network Freedom For Data Centre, Cloud Providers

'Disaggregated' Dell OS10 promises greater choice of equipment and application modules and development freedom

9 years ago

Linux Trojan Takes Screenshots And Captures Audio

Linux.Ekoms.1 takes a screenshot every 30 seconds but audio capture function remains dormant for now

9 years ago

Critical Linux Kernel Flaw Found

Security researchers urge Android users to manually patch a vulnerability that's existed for at least three years

9 years ago