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Here’s to a bright New Year and a fond farewell to the old; here’s to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we hold.” “May you have a prosperous New Year.” “Wishing you a happy,… Continue Reading →
An all-new Linux kernel release is here, so in this post we do our level best to rundown the core changes and key features ticking away at the heart of it. Linux 5.10 is the latest mainline kernel update (as… Continue Reading →
On Tuesday, Red Hat CTO Chris Wright and CentOS Community Manager Rich Bowen each announced a massive change in the future and function of CentOS Linux. Moving forward, there will be no CentOS Linux—instead, there will (only) be CentOS Stream. Originally announced… Continue Reading →
cPanel officially announced a deprecation schedule and its eventual removal from the product forr X3, the previous generation user interface for cPanel. Here’s the schedule from cPanel updated in their blog: In 11.52… Brand new installations of cPanel & WHM will consider… Continue Reading →
A privilege escalation vulnerability being branded as “Dirty Cow” (CVE-2016-5195) was recently discovered and fixed yesterday in the Linux Kernel. It has existed for 11 years, so pretty much every device running Linux is affected (this includes VMs, physical machines, mobile… Continue Reading →
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS arrives with GNOME desktop, Kuberflow, Color Emojis Ubuntu, which is one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions, has finally released the latest Long Term Support (LTS) version of Ubuntu – version 18.04, after numerous alpha/beta releases… Continue Reading →
Kernel 4.10 has the honor of being christened the “Anniversary Edition” by Linus Torvalds. I’m guessing this is because of the recent 25th anniversary of the release of Linux 0.01. Admittedly, it is a bit late for that (the anniversary… Continue Reading →
Avery serious security problem has been found in the Intel/AMD/ARM CPUs. Spectre CPU Vulnerability CVE-2017-5753/CVE-2017-5715 breaks the isolation between different applications. It allows an attacker to trick error-free programs, which follow best practices, into leaking their secrets. In fact, the… Continue Reading →
Avery serious security problem has been found in the Intel CPUs. Meltdown CPU Vulnerability CVE-2017-5754 breaks the most fundamental isolation between user applications and the operating system. This attack allows a program to access the memory, and thus also the… Continue Reading →