Category: software

  • 2023 State of Tech Talent Report

    2023 State of Tech Talent Report

    Linux Foundation Research partnered with LF Training and Certification for its annual talent report, this time from the perspective of hiring managers. As we enter a period of economic uncertainty, this report assesses the current state of technology talent acquisition and retention around the world, illuminating what has been and will continue to be impacted…

  • Fedora Linux available for all Apple Silicon

    Fedora Linux available for all Apple Silicon

    We’ve seen Linux running on Apple Silicon Macs before, but this week marks the first time you can run Fedora Linux on M1 and M2 Macs. This is a collaboration between Asahi Linux and the Fedora Project, and marks a key milestone in a project which kicked off back in 2021 … If you’re thinking…

  • New Bluetooth Flaw Let Hackers Take Over Android, Linux

    New Bluetooth Flaw Let Hackers Take Over Android, Linux

    A critical Bluetooth security flaw could be exploited by threat actors to take control of Android, Linux, macOS and iOS devices. Tracked as CVE-2023-45866, the issue relates to a case of authentication bypass that enables attackers to connect to susceptible devices and inject keystrokes to achieve code execution as the victim. “Multiple Bluetooth stacks have…

  • OpenELA Source Code Now Available

    OpenELA Source Code Now Available

    OpenELA today announced the public release of the Enterprise Linux source code along with important technical and governance milestones. OpenELA is a trade association of open source Enterprise Linux distribution developers originally founded by CIQ, Oracle and SUSE. It exists to encourage development and collaboration of distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) by…

  • Android is slowly entering the RISC-V era

    Android is slowly entering the RISC-V era

    Google plans RISC-V Android tools in 2024, wants developers to “be ready.” Android is slowly entering the RISC-V era. So far we’ve seen Google say it wants to give the up-and-coming CPU architecture “tier-1” support in Android, putting RISC-V on equal footing with Arm. Qualcomm has announced the first mass-market RISC-V Android chip, a still-untitled…