Tag: Linux and open source
Finally free and safe: Windows drivers in Rust
Microsoft’s Surface development team has released a series of Rust packages (so-called crates) as open source on GitHub, which programmers can use to write drivers for Windows in the Rust…
openSUSE Slowroll: The future of openSUSE Leap?
The openSUSE project offers a new Linux distribution called openSUSE Slowroll. It positions itself between its sisters openSUSE Tumbleweed and openSUSE Leap: While the latter mainly brings well-tested, but older…
Anonymizing Linux: Tails 5.17.1 seals critical libWebP vulnerability
The Tails project has released version 5.17.1 of the Linux distribution for anonymous web surfing. In it, the creators essentially update the Tor browser, which is also affected by a…
LSD on the command line: GNU list command in rust and color
List, or short ls, belongs to standard commands of the command line. With version 1.0 of LSDeluxe, LSD for short or as a command lsd, a tool has now appeared…
For Slackware’s 30th birthday: Happy Birthday, Youngtimer!
“Hello everybody out there using Minix” – this is how an email begins, the content of which should be well known to most of the F/LOSS scene. Linus Torvalds announced…
Linux: Version 1.0 of the Chinese operating system openKylin released
Since 2001, China has been working on developing its own operating system that is independent of other states or companies. Version 1.0 of the state Linux distribution openKylin has now…
Proxmox VE 8.0 is here: Free Linux for containers and virtualization
After a short beta test phase, the developers at Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH release version 8.0 of the Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE). Proxmox VE is based on GNU/Linux and allows…
Microsoft: Windows Subsystem for Linux fixes issues and updates kernel
Microsoft has released the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) version 1.3.11. In addition to updated components such as the kernel, the current version includes various bug fixes. The WSL primarily…
openSUSE Leap 15.5: Many updates in mature Linux distribution
openSUSE Leap 15.5: Many updates in mature Linux distribution openSUSE Leap 15.5 has officially been released. SUSE’s community distribution is sticking to its own release plan and is largely completely…
5 zero-day exploits: Insights into the inner workings of the state Trojan Predator
5 zero-day exploits: Insights into the inner workings of the state Trojan Predator Cisco Talos, the IT security offshoot of the US network supplier Cisco Systems, has published new details…