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How To Ensure Your Homebrew OpenVPN Server Isn't Vulnerable To Heartbleed
The Heartbleed bug has made April into a difficult month for Internet users, as we scramble to change our passwords and protect ourselves from the most pervasive security threat in ages. But if you've...
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Post-Heartbleed, Open Source Gets A New Security Attitude
The Internet may not agree on much. But if there’s one idea its citizens can get behind, it’s that nothing like the Heartbleed bug should ever happen again. And so the Linux Foundation—backed by...
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Linux World Domination Complete: Why It's Foolish To Bet Against Open Source...
Ten years ago Unix claimed five the top-10 fastest computers on the planet and 44% of the overall supercomputer market. Today? Unix, the once indomitable performance powerhouse, doesn't make the top-10...
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How And Why Google Is Open Sourcing Its Data Centers
Google's back in the open source game, and in a big way. In a world increasingly bent on opening up innovation outside the company firewall, Google just took a major step forward.In June, Google made...
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Want A Job In Tech? Become A Linux Expert
Over the past 20 years, Linux has ascended from a Finnish student's hobby to the world's most dominant operating system—one that runs everything from high-performance computing to mobile. Yet companies...
View ArticleHow To Detect And Patch This Big, Bad Unix Bash Shellshock Bug
Security researchers have discovered and patched a 22-year-old bug in the bash shell, the ubiquitous Linux and Unix command-line interpreter. See also: Don't Fear The Command LineThe vulnerability...
View ArticleNew Security Flaws Render Shellshock Patch Ineffective
Your system is still vulnerable to the Shellshock bug, even if you’ve patched it. Security researchers have found new flaws in bash, rendering previous patches ineffective.See also: How To Detect And...
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How To Avoid The Community Of Open Source Jerks
Open source is the new default for many areas of software. But open source is different, and that's causing some problems for newbies. While some reduce open source to "free software I can download,"...
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How A Linux "Ghost" Spooked The Security World
A vulnerability in a widely used component of many Linux distributions could allow remote attackers to take control of a system. Researchers at Qualys have dubbed it Ghost since it can be triggered by...
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7 Open Source Questions With Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst
I recently had a chance to sit down over a Thai food lunch with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst.Whitehurst, who took over Red Hat after leaving Delta Airlines in 2007, had a lot to say about the current...
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Ecosystem, Timing Work Against Canonical's Ubuntu For Smartphones
Canonical, the makers of the Ubuntu open source operating system, first hinted that it would be making firmware for smartphones in late 2011. The technorati were dubious at the time, knowing full well...
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Ubuntu's Quixotic Mobile War: HTML5 - Not Linux - Is The Key
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has never been one to think small. Walking down Oxford Street in London a few years back, he told me that one thing his money gives him is the ability to "see into...
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Does SUSE Linux Have A Future?
Remember SUSE? Way back when it was the cutting-edge Linux distribution, and held its own with Red Hat. But that was a long time ago, long before Microsoft adopted it as its pet and Attachmate took it...
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Home Virtualization & The New Power User
Windows 8 is not really my cup of tea. Mac OS X Mountain Lion is not what I hoped it would be. Google's Chrome operating system is not powerful enough for my purposes. What is a power user to do?Use...
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Happy 60th Birthday, Richard Stallman, Free Software God!
Tomorrow, March 16, is Richard M. Stallman's 60th birthday. Stallman, also known as "rms," is the father of the Free Software movement and the creator of the GNU Project and the GNU General Public...
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International Space Station Drops Windows For Linux
All the computers on the International Space Station that used to run Windows XP now run Linux, reports Extreme Tech. The reason: Microsoft's OS just wasn't "stable and reliable" enough, according to...
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Here Comes Jolla, Yet Another Deviant Linux Smartphone
Meet Jolla, the smartphone that almost never came to be.When Nokia decided to jump off its burning platform a few years ago and go with Windows Phone, there were no people more disappointed with the...
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Five Industry Flame Wars No One Cares About Anymore
There once was a time when Microsoft was evil, open source was the underdog and flamewars between the two camps were frequent and fierce. Those were the days! Today the industry has traded those early...
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Red Hat Looks Beyond Linux For Its Next Decade Of Growth
Ten years ago, Red Hat went "all in" on the enterprise. While the open-source software vendor had been selling distributions and support for Linux since 1993, it wasn't until 2003 that Red Hat...
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Microsoft/Oracle: A Yawner That Could Have Been Much More
If someone has to forewarn you that "BIG NEWS IS COMING!", rest assured that no big news is coming. That's what I thought when Oracle CEO Larry Ellison tried to soften another round of poor earnings...
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Red Hat CEO: Go Ahead, Copy Our Software
Imagine your company spent more than $100 million developing a product. Now imagine that a competitor came along and cloned your product and distributed a near-perfect replica of it. Not good, right?...
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22 Years Later, The Linux And Open Source "Cancer" Is Wonderfully Benign
Linus Torvalds in his younger days.Twenty-two years ago Linux was born as a "(free) operating system" that founder Linus Torvalds was quick to downplay as "just a hobby" that wouldn't "be big and...
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Linux Development Report: Mobile Vendors Storm The Linux Bazaar
For years, Linux, arguably the most important free software project, has been dominated by big enterprise IT vendors. Even as Linux made its way into mobile phones, cars and just about anything else...
View ArticleState of the OS: Three Operating Systems, Three Upgrades
As a veteran of many operating system upgrades, I am usually somewhat cautious when it comes to system upgrades, but keeping my data in the cloud has perhaps made living on the wild side a little less...
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Can OpenStack Be Saved From Itself?
OpenStack has a broad and growing community driving its development. Which may, ironically, be its biggest problem. At least, that's what I heard from a several industry experts last week at Amazon's...
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Node.js Is Big, And Still Getting Bigger
Chances are if you think Walmart.com or LinkedIn is running smoothly, it’s thanks to Node.js, a server-side JavaScript development framework that is currently powering everything from the biggest...
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The Genius Of Linux Is Community, Not Technology
2013 was the year of Linux in everything. Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin declared that Linux's ubiquity has reached every corner of computing. "From smartphones, tablets, consumer...
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Why Red Hat Needs OpenStack ... And AWS
Red Hat CEO Jim WhitehurstOpenStack, the cloud's community darling, desperately needs leadership, and Red Hat seems the ideal leader. But OpenStack isn't the only needy party here. As good as Red Hat's...
View ArticleWhy Red Hat Had To Embrace CentOS, Its Chief Copycat
People surprised by Red Hat's announced adoption of CentOS haven't been paying attention. While Red Hat early on felt competitive pressure from its clone, more recently it has tended to smile and nod...
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Meet COS, The Chinese Government's Contender To Battle iOS & Android
The government of China is not too fond of foreign mobile operating systems like iOS and Android, so the country cooked up its own homegrown solution: A Linux-based, open-source operating system called...
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Why The Linux Desktop Doesn't Matter Anymore
The Linux desktop crew is a hardy bunch. Despite it being abundantly evident that the Linux desktop has lost whatever slim chance it once had to be relevant, Linux advocates continue to wring their...
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The Enterprise Strikes Back On Open Source Contributions
In celebrating the significant contributions Twitter, Facebook and other Web giants have made to open source, did ReadWrite fail to credit more traditional software vendors for their own contributions?...
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This Horrible Steam Bug Erases All User Files On Linux Systems
If you’re using the Steam videogame service on Linux, be very, very careful lest you run into a terrible bug that could wipe out all your personal files—and maybe even your backups, for good measure.In...
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The Irrelevance Of Open Sourcing Windows
So Microsoft now insists it's "definitely possible" that one day it will open source Windows. Thus spake Mark Russinovich, Microsoft technical fellow and Azure CTO, at a recent conference. It is, after...
View ArticleOpen Source: Billions Upon Billions Of Free
Just how much is all that free stuff worth?That's the task the Linux Foundation set itself, releasing a new report that claims that the code it stewards is worth more than $5 billion. With projects...
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