'Half a Second' chronicles the XZ Utils backdoor attempt—from a patient impostor maintainer to the half-second latency that exposed the plot.
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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
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.
We get down and dirty with Collabora Office 26.04, the new desktop twin to Collabora Online, to see how it stacks up against LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Euro‑Office and, yes, Microsoft Office.
Digital sovereignty is driving European governments off US clouds and onto homegrown open source options.