Although every VMware user knows that nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky, the security firm Codenotary is offering free security for up to 25 machines running AlmaLinux -- with no expiration date.
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Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux
The hire points to Nextcloud’s plan to deepen AI automation while preserving its privacy- and safety-first model.
'Half a Second' chronicles the XZ Utils backdoor attempt—from a patient impostor maintainer to the half-second latency that exposed the plot.
Elon Musk promises to open source all of X, ‘no exceptions,’ once the security team is done poking at it. The missing detail: what ‘open’ actually means in Musk‑speak.
What began as one developer’s need to test a Floppy Emu device grew into a full set of SWIM driver fixes for aging Apple hardware.
The removal of GPL code from FreeBSD 16’s base system isn’t just housekeeping — it reflects a BSD vision of “software freedom” that differs from FSF, Gnu, and Linux.
System76’s refreshed Adder Pro trims weight, adds Panther Lake silicon and RTX 50‑series GPUs, and ships with Pop!_OS or Ubuntu for Linux‑first power users.
Built on debsecan, debvulns‑exporter surfaces Debian security metadata for Prometheus and Grafana.
A dust-up in OpenMandriva’s dev ranks escalates from abusive chats to vanished repositories and a ‘saboteur’ package that threatens Gnome and Cosmic users.
The only elephant in the room isn't in the oval office. For enterprises dependent on IT -- meaning every enterprise on the planet these days -- there's an elephant in every server and in every data center.