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The open-source world has recently been shaken by the discovery of a new, critical security vulnerability lurking in the Linux kernel - the lifeline of numerous operating systems worldwide. This flaw, named StackRot (CVE-2023-3269), resides in Linux kernel versions 6.1 to 6.4 and has the potential to provide nefarious actors with escalated privileges on a target host. In this article, we delve into the intricacies of StackRot, review the mitigation efforts taken, and offer recommendations for users to guard against this threat.

SUSE announces official fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with $10 million investments in coming years.

In light of the Red Hat/IBM drama happening these days after Red Hat announced that it will restrict access to its public repositories limiting the forking of RHEL by community distributions like AlmaLinuxOS or Rocky Linux, SUSE announced today that it plans to offer a free alternative to RHEL and CentOS users.

Discover how Oracle is offering IBM to ease the burden of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) development while promoting open source.

Mastering file search in Linux with fd, a user-friendly alternative to the find command. Learn fd command examples for efficient file searching.

Big Blue is just a gold digger, says avid auditor of software licenses. Oracle claims IBM is trying to kill open source competition among Linux distributions to boost its bottom line, and has pledged to keep distributing Oracle Linux source code for free.…

OpenRGB 0.9 RGB lighting control tool now supports Segments, adds a Keyboard Layout Manager, and expands the base of supported devices.

In our previous article we have demonstrated a working prototype of Host Identity Based Virtual Private Service or HIP-VPLS. Back then we used the Mininet framework. Here we are going to demonstrate how to deploy this system on a real hardware. We are going to use NanoPi R2S as the platform for HIP-VPLS.

First came AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux. Then Oracle. Now SUSE is coming after Red Hat for changing the rules on RHEL source code. What's next? Microsoft RHEL!?

The time has come to say goodbye to the Linux 6.3 kernel series as it’s now marked as EOL (End of Life) on the kernel.org website, meaning it will no longer be supported with bug and security fixes.

The 145th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 9th, 2023, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

An assorted list of best Cursor themes for all variants of Linux desktops.

Expect this saga to stretch out a bit over northern summer Linux kernel overseer Linus Torvalds has delivered the first release candidate for version 6.5 of the kernel, but warned this release may not go smoothly.…

After the Linux community lived in a state of anxiety for quite a while about the future of one of the most prominent and famous distributions, the Solus team announced, in an atmosphere that I am sure is filled with joy, the release of Solus 4.4 with a very appropriate code name "Harmony" packed with dozens of improvements and updates. Let's dive into the exciting features of this highly anticipated release.

Linux Lite creator Jerry Bezencon announced today the general availability for public testing of the Release Candidate (RC) development version of the upcoming Linux Lite 6.6 distribution.

Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability for public testing of the first Release Candidate (RC) development milestone of the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel series.

2DayGeeK: This step-by-step tutorial describes how to Configure Veritas Cluster Server 8.0 on RHEL 8.8, including fencing configuration.

Presumably Red Hat feels it hasn't alienated enough people recently. The Fedora Project is considering a proposal to introduce some limited usage telemetry in a future release. Predictably, quite a few users are not delighted with this development.…

Overwhelmed with the thought of building your own trading platform? Read the following tips to help you get started.

Linux has a fairly limited range of eBook readers, so we’re always keen to explore new entrants. Arianna is a ebook reader built for the KDE Plasma desktop but, of course, runs under other desktop environments. It uses Qt, a C++ framework for developing graphical user interfaces and cross-platform applications, and the Kirigami UI framework.