Enlarge / AlmaLinux lets you build applications that work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux but can’t promise the exact same bug environment. That’s different from how they started, but it’s also a chance to pick a new path forward. AlmaLinux OS reader comments 7 with I asked benny Vasquez, chair of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation,… Read More »
How can you argue against these numbers? 20th Century Fox / Aurich Lawson reader comments 146 with According to one measurement by one firm, Linux reached 3.07 percent market share of global desktop operating systems in June 2023. It’s a notable first for the more than 30-year-old operating system, though other numbers in Statcounter’s chart… Read More »
Enlarge / A be-hatted person, tipping his brim to the endless amount of text generated by the conflict of corporate versus enthusiast understandings of the GPL. Getty Images reader comments 123 with When CentOS announced in 2020 that it was shutting down its traditional “rebuild” of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to focus on its… Read More »
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Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of an AI-hallucinated computer. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 69 with 0 posters participating Share this story Over the weekend, experimenters discovered that OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT, can hallucinate simulations of Linux shells and role-play dialing into a bulletin board system (BBS). The chatbot, based on a deep… Read More »
Enlarge / And there was much rejoicing, as a new Linux kernel version had arrived before its founder ran out of fingers and toes for counting. Getty Images reader comments 45 with 31 posters participating, including story author Share this story A stable version of Linux 6.0 is out, with 15,000 non-merge commits and a… Read More »
reader comments 29 with 26 posters participating Share this story Researchers have revealed a never-before-seen piece of cross-platform malware that has infected a wide range of Linux and Windows devices, including small office routers, FreeBSD boxes, and large enterprise servers. Black Lotus Labs, the research arm of security firm Lumen, is calling the malware Chaos,… Read More »
Enlarge / A world-exclusive interview between man and machine. Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 66 with 57 posters participating, including story author Share this story Millions of people use Linux every day, but we rarely stop to think about how the operating system feels about it. Wouldn’t it be nice to know what… Read More »
reader comments 12 with 11 posters participating Share this story Researchers this week unveiled a new strain of Linux malware that’s notable for its stealth and sophistication in infecting both traditional servers and smaller Internet-of-things devices. Dubbed Shikitega by the AT&T Alien Labs researchers who discovered it, the malware is delivered through a multistage infection… Read More »
reader comments 31 with 24 posters participating Share this story Researchers have unearthed a discovery that doesn’t occur all that often in the realm of malware: a mature, never-before-seen Linux backdoor that uses novel evasion techniques to conceal its presence on infected servers, in some cases even with a forensic investigation. On Thursday, researchers from… Read More »