Open-source News

Exim marks the spot… of remote code execution: Patch due out today for 'give me root' flaw in mail server  The Register

The widely used Exim email server software is due to be patched today to close a critical security flaw that can be exploited to potentially gain root-level access ...

Here's How To Easily Use Apple Music From Any Linux Distribution  Forbes

People who use Apple Music on Linux exist, and now using Apple's streaming *service* doesn't require any workarounds.

For those excited by the prospects of running Linux on Arm-based laptops, with the upcoming Linux 5.4 kernel will be better mainline support for the Lenovo Yoga C630 laptop...

You can add color to your Linux terminal using special ANSI encoding settings, either dynamically in a terminal command or in configuration files, or you can use ready-made themes in your terminal emulator. Either way, the nostalgic green or amber text on a black screen is wholly optional. This article demonstrates how you can make Linux as colorful (or as monochromatic) as you want.

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Academic work fits nicely into the open source ethos: The higher the value of what you give away, the greater your academic prestige and earnings. Professors accomplish this by sharing their best ideas for free in journal articles in peer-reviewed literature. This is our currency, without a strong publishing record not only would our ability to progress in our careers degrade, but even our jobs could be lost (and the ability to get any other job).

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New ransomware strain appears to target Linux web servers  IT World Canada

Dubbed Lilocked, after the extension it places on encrypted files, the strain has surfaced in the past two months.

Pandora Flexible Monitoring Solution (FMS) is all-purpose monitoring software, which means it can control network equipment, servers (Linux and Windows), virtual environments, applications, databases, and a lot more. It can do both remote monitoring and monitoring based on agents installed on the servers. You can get collected data in reports and graphs and raise alerts if something goes wrong.

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First released in 2003, WordPress has grown to become one of the leading CMS systems in the internet, accounting for over 30% of the market share. WordPress is a free and opensource CMS that...

Landing Thursday within Mesa 19.3 Git but marked for back-porting to the stable 19.1 and 19.2 series is an Intel driver fix to address an issue with KDE's KWin sometimes crashing...

Roman Gushchin of Facebook's Linux kernel engineering team has proposed a new slab memory controller for the Linux kernel...

Facebook Engineer Proposing New Slab Memory Controller For Linux - Saves Lots Of RAM  Phoronix

Roman Gushchin of Facebook's Linux kernel engineering team has proposed a new slab memory controller for the Linux kernel. Roman found what he refers to ...

GNOME Shell and Mutter today saw their v3.33.92 releases as their second and final release candidates ahead of next week's GNOME 3.34 stable release. While usually things are very quiet at this stage, there have been some prominent last minute performance fixes...

Linux Makes a Deal with the Devil in 'Thanks Satan' Music Video  Out Magazine

Someone get this to the 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina' music supervisor.

Microsoft's Azure-focused, 8MP smart AI camera runs Linux on Qualcomm SoC  LinuxGizmos.com

Microsoft announced a $249 “Vision AI Developer Kit” with an 8MP, 4K camera that runs Linux on Qualcomm's 10nm, AI-enabled QCS603 SoC. The kit is aimed ...

Chelsio Welcomes Integration Of SoftiWarp Into Upstream Linux Kernel 5.3  PRNewswire

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Chelsio Communications, Inc., a leading provider of high performance (1Gb/10Gb/25Gb/40Gb/50Gb/100Gb) ...

Chelsio Welcomes Integration Of SoftiWarp Into Upstream Linux Kernel 5.3  Yahoo Finance

Milestone Represents Strong Validation of iWARP/RDMA for Enterprise and Cloud Datacenter Deployment SUNNYVALE, Calif. , Sept. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ ...

Running Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Rome? Still Significant Performance Uplift Over Ubuntu  Phoronix

The current AMD EPYC 7742 2P benchmarking that is happening at Phoronix is an interesting Linux/BSD operating system performance comparison. That's in ...

The current AMD EPYC 7742 2P benchmarking that is happening at Phoronix is an interesting Linux/BSD operating system performance comparison. That's in the works while so far are some Ubuntu and Clear Linux numbers. Yes, Intel's open-source Clear Linux platform does run fine generally on AMD hardware -- including the new AMD "Rome" processors -- and generally does still run damn fast. Here is a look at Clear Linux on this 128 core / 256 thread server with Clear Linux against Ubuntu 19.04 as well as the upcoming Ubuntu 19.10.

Librem 5 Linux Phone’s Iterative Shipping Schedule Is Finally Here  Fossbytes

Just earlier this year in July, we gave you the latest update on the much-anticipated Libre 5 Linux smartphone that has been under development for quite some ...

As we approach the end of Q3, Purism has been quiet whether they will make their revised target of shipping the Librem 5 Linux smartphone this quarter after passing their original plan to ship at the start of 2019. Well, Purism has just published an update and they will begin shipping the phones in batches beginning at the end of the month but the quality isn't yet up to scratch...