Linus Torvalds Apologizes For His Rude Behavior—Takes Time Off

tháng 9 18, 2018

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Open Source

What just happened would definitely gonna surprise you.

Linus Torvalds—father of the Linux open-source operating system—finally admitted his behavior towards other developers in the Linux community was hurting people and Linux.

In a surprising move this weekend, Torvalds apologized for insulting and abusing other developers for almost three decades and took a break from the open-source

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Microsoft Releases PowerShell Core for Linux as a Snap Package

tháng 7 20, 2018

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Ubuntu

Microsoft's love for Linux continues…

Microsoft has released its command-line shell and scripting language PowerShell Core for Linux operating system as a Snap package, making it easier for Linux users to install Microsoft PowerShell on their system.

Yes, you heard me right.

Microsoft has made PowerShell Core available to the Ubuntu Snap Store as a Snap application.

PowerShell Core is a

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Password-Guessing Was Used to Hack Gentoo Linux Github Account

tháng 7 05, 2018

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password hacking

Maintainers of the Gentoo Linux distribution have now revealed the impact and "root cause" of the attack that saw unknown hackers taking control of its GitHub account last week and modifying the content of its repositories and pages.

The hackers not only managed to change the content in compromised repositories but also locked out Gentoo developers from their GitHub organisation.

As a result

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SUSE Linux Has Been Sold For $2.5 Billion

tháng 7 03, 2018

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tech acquisitions

SUSE, the open source software company owned by British firm Micro Focus International, has been sold to a Swedish private equity firm.

Yes, SUSE Linux and its associated software business has finally been acquired by EQT Partners for $2.535 billion, lifting its shares 6 percent.

SUSE is one of the oldest open source companies and perhaps the first to provide enterprise-grade Linux software

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Github Account of Gentoo Linux Hacked, Code Replaced With Malware

tháng 6 29, 2018

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Malware

Downloaded anything from Gentoo's GitHub account yesterday?

Consider those files compromised and dump them now—as an unknown group of hackers or an individual managed to gain access to the GitHub account of the Gentoo Linux distribution on Thursday and replaced the original source code with a malicious one.

Gentoo is a free open source Linux or FreeBSD-based distribution built using the

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