http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/21/ubuntu-15-04-launches-with-support-for-openstack-kilo-new-lxd-hypervisor-and-snappy-core/ Posted from WordPress for Android →
I earlier reported that Linux 4.0 is coming. Now it is here: Linux 4.0 debuts with the usual no fanfare. Linux Lord Linus Torvalds made it official with a typically brief post to the Linux kernel mailing list. The new number isn’t a sign of a major upgrade, which is not to say this release →
The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty page tells that it was March, 1985 when Richard M. Stallman published the GNU Manifesto in Dr. Dobb’s Journal of Software Tools. The GNU Manifesto is characteristic of its author—deceptively simple, lucid, explicitly left-leaning, and entirely uncompromising. Perhaps the most significant innovation in the GNU Manifesto is a method of →
I saw yesterday demo of Lauterbach debugger. It is a hardware based modular debugger that supports many processors. It is considered to be high-end debugger product for Embedded Linux debugging and is quite expensive. The company serves a niche-market of in-circuit emulators, especially on systems using JTAG, which it sells under the brand name TRACE32. →
Linus Torvalds has decided to make the next kernel version Linux 4.0 rather than Linux 3.20. Linux 4.0 is going to bring many big improvements besides the version bump with there being live kernel patching. Linus tagged the Linux 4.0-rc1 kernel just moments ago. Linux kernel live patching is an interesting feature, which allows kernel patches →
As I expected the flow of security bugs continues this year. Now first serious open source bug disclosed this year following last year’s Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL, the Shellshock bug in Bash and the POODLE bug related to the the SSL v3 fall back issue. The GHOST vulnerability is a serious weakness in the Linux →
2014 brought us plenty of new open-spec, community-backed SBCs — from $35 bargains, to octa-core powerhouses — and all with Linux or Android support. Ringing in 2015 with 40 Linux-friendly hacker SBCs article is a good overview of the Linux friendly single board computers in around $35 to $200 range. Nowadays there is so huge →
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/powerful-highly-stealthy-linux-trojan-may-have-infected-victims-for-years/ Posted from WordPress for Android →
The Awesome Program You Never Should Use article describes a Linux utility that I have found some times very useful, because it can be incredibly helpful. Conceptually, sshpass is a horrible, horrible program. It basically allows you to enter an SSH user name and password on the command line, so you can create a connection without →
http://louwrentius.com/systemd-forward-secure-sealing-of-system-logs-makes-little-sense.html Posted from WordPress for Android →