Linux & Open Source News

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has taken decisive steps in response to the alarming rise in healthcare data breaches by proposing major updates to the Health...

The Linux kernel 6.11 series officially reached its end of life (EOL) on December 5, 2024. As expected for a short-lived kernel branch, its journey has come to a close....

The Linux kernel is gearing up for its next major update with version 6.13. Kicking off the testing phase, Linus Torvalds announced the first release candidate (RC1) on December 1,...

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation has officially released the latest version AlmaLinux 9.5, codenamed Teal Serval, on November 18, 2024. Built from the same source code as Red Hat Enterprise Linux...

Linux has emerged as the dominant operating system on Microsoft Azure, powering over 60% of customer workloads. This surge in Linux adoption underscores its increasing popularity and versatility in enterprises...

The U.S Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently announced proposed security requirements designed to prevent adversarial nations from gaining access to American’s personal and government-related information. These proposed guidelines...

Supply chain attacks have become a growing concern, particularly with the rise of open source packages and libraries across various programming languages. These attacks exploit vulnerabilities in the software supply...

As of October 10, 2024, Linux kernel 6.10 has officially reached its end of life (EOL). This means no further official updates or security fixes will be released for Linux...

SUSE researchers discovered a critical vulnerability in a PAM module of the Oath Toolkit, a popular software suite that provides One-Time Password (OTP). This vulnerability (CVE-2024-47191) allows malicious actors to...

The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) is a widely used open-source printing system, prevalent on Linux and UNIX-like operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. While CUPS provides essential...

Linux Torvalds announced the first release candidate (RC) for the much-anticipated Linux kernel 6.12 series on September 29, 2024. A release candidate is a nearly final version that is being...