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Global Linux Operating System Market 2019 Share, Trend, Segmentation and Forecast to 2025  Market Reporter

This report provides in depth study of “Linux Operating System Market” using SWOT analysis i.e. Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threat to the ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a method used to translate human-readable domain names (or Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN)) to machine-readable IP addresses, to locate a computer in a network such as the...

Clear Linux Gets Questions Over Steam Integration, Other Plans For This High-Perf Distro  Phoronix

Auke Kok of Intel / Clear Linux carried out the distribution's first ask-me-anything session today where he fielded questions ranging from Steam to under-served ...

Auke Kok of Intel / Clear Linux carried out the distribution's first ask-me-anything session today where he fielded questions ranging from Steam to under-served software projects...

Botnets shift from Windows towards Linux and IoT platforms  Help Net Security

Botnets in 2018 continued the trend of using distributed denial-of-*service* (DDoS) as their primary weapon to attack high-speed networks.

Offensive Security unveils Kali Linux roadmap  Help Net Security

Offensive Security unveiled much of the 2019-2020 Kali Linux roadmap, the most popular operating system used by penetration testers and ethical hackers.

Coreboot now supports the UP Squared, the new single board computer / maker board based on an Intel Apollo Lake SoC...

Debian vs. Ubuntu: Best Linux Distro for Laptops, Desktops, and Servers  MakeUseOf

Considering Linux OS for a new project? Debian and Ubuntu are great choices for a Linux PC, laptop, or server. But which is best?

Kubernetes 1.15 Released | Linux.com | The source for Linux information  Linux.com

The Kubernetes community has announced the release of Kubernetes 1.15, the second release of 2019. The release focuses on Continuous Improvement and ...

Facebook and the Linux Foundation to create a new foundation for the osquery project  Help Net Security

Facebook and the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced plans to create a new foundation for ...

Intel announced an interesting development in their oneAPI initiative: they are developing a new programming language/dialect...

The Kubernetes community has announced the release of Kubernetes 1.15, the second release of 2019. The release focuses on Continuous Improvement and Extensibility. Work on making Kubernetes installation, upgrade and configuration even more robust has been a major focus for this cycle for SIG Cluster Lifecycle.

Purism today issued their June software status update on how things are going with bringing up their privacy-minded Linux software stack for their Librem 5 smartphone. On the software side things are still moving along though still rather primitive with a goal of shipping in Q3. Similarly, this status update lacks any talk of the hardware progress for seeing how that is moving if there is any chance of shipping their planned phone next month after already having been setback twice...

Librem 5 Dev Kit Can At Least Run Quake II Now, Progress On Adopting Linux 5.2  Phoronix

Purism today issued their June software status update on how things are going with bringing up their privacy-minded Linux software stack for their Librem 5 ...

Cryptominer Uses Cron To Reinfect Linux Host After Removal  BleepingComputer

A cryptomining dropper malware has been spotted by security researchers while gaining persistence on Linux hosts by adding cron jobs to reinfect the ...

Malware Dropper Infects Linux Hosts with Resilient Cryptominer  BleepingComputer

A cryptomining dropper malware has been spotted by security researchers while gaining persistence on Linux hosts by adding cron jobs to reinfect the ...

The US National Security Agency (NSA) has developers contributing to the Coreboot project...

Tech Giants Join Linux Foundation's Connected-Cities Efforts  Data Center Knowledge

Data center operators might be well advised to pay attention to a new project announced by the Linux Foundation in May. Called the Urban Computing ...

Alpine Linux 3.10 is out today as the newest feature release for this lightweight, security-minded Linux distribution built atop Musl libc and Busybox while catering being quite popular in the container crowd...

Open Invention Network, the Linux-based patent non-aggression community, exceeds 3,000 licensees  ZDNet

While some businesses remain entangled in patent wars, the companies which have joined the OIN are freeing Linux from patent fights.