Tag: open-source
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Release of Fedora Linux 40
Oh, wow. This feels like a big number! I’m proud to announce the 40th release of Fedora Linux, a community-built and community-maintained operating system that belongs to all of us. I’m also happy to note that we’re back on track with an on-time release. Thank you to all Fedora contributors who made that possible, and…
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Why Microsoft is a U.S. ‘National Security Threat’
This week the Register spoke to former senior White House cyber policy director A.J. Grotto — who complained it was hard to get even slight concessions from Microsoft: “If you go back to the SolarWinds episode from a few years ago … [Microsoft] was essentially up-selling logging capability to federal agencies” instead of making it…
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Send Text Msg by ICMP Tunnel x SCAPY
Written by Levko Kravchuk, VanLUG Member DISCLAIMER: Please use this article for study purposes only. I provide this information for Administrators who want to be more effective in their job. Folks, I want to share with you an amazing technology — ICMP Tunnels. It was developed to bypass firewalls, DLP systems, and the main reason…
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Ubuntu Studio in beta: Easiest Creative Distro
Ubuntu Studio remains the quickest one-shot way to get at Linux and free software for music, sound, video, media, and 3D. And they deserve some extra love now, especially since Apple Silicon has slightly deflated desktop Linux attention. Here’s a look at the long-term support version that just hit beta, due later this month. Ubuntu…
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Linux 6.10 Preps Kernel ‘Panic Screen’ – like BSOD
Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 19 April 2024 While systemd 255 last year introduced a “blue screen of death” inspired solution with systemd-bsod for presenting logged error messages full-screen, it’s not appropriate for all errors. Systemd-bsod can work out for presenting full-screen messages in case of boot failures and other problems where…
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Linux Foundation fights against ‘fauxpen’ source
Opinion piece: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Fri 12 Apr 2024 // 09:31 UTC Since its founding, the Linux Foundation has been a vendor-neutral supporter of Linux and open source software. Now, though, it’s actively promoting such open source projects as OpenTofu and Valkey. The Linux Foundation started in 2007 when the Open Source Development Lab joined forces with the Free…
