linux

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…

8 years ago

OpenStack Gets Core Infrastructure Initiative Green Light

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

8 years ago

Ubuntu Forums Breach Affects Two Million Users

The breach resulted from an unpatched bug, Canonical admits

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

IBM SoftLayer Now Ubuntu Certified Cloud Partner

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

8 years ago

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

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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 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 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 16.04

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

9 years ago

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 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 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 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