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WikiLeaks’ latest Vault7 release of leaked CIA documents detailing its hacking tools reveals malware called OutlawCountry that targets Linux systems. OutlawCountry is described in documents dated June 4, 2015 as a kernel module for Linux 2.6 that allows CIA operators to redirect outbound traffic to a server they control by creating an hidden netfilter or iptables table. Netfilter is a packet-filtering framework … Read More

I started brewing my own beer more than 10 years ago. Like most homebrewers, I started in my kitchen making extract-based brews. This required the least equipment and still resulted in really tasty beer. Eventually I stepped up to all-grain brewing using a big cooler for my mash tun. For several years I was brewing 5 gallons at a time, … Read More

CaaS is essentially container-based virtualization technology in which container engines, container orchestration and underlying compute resources are delivered as a service from a cloud provider. SUSE is positioning its CaaS platform as a new addition to its software-defined infrastructure portfolio. The use of application containers has grown fivefold over five years, according to Raj Meel, SUSE global product and solutions marketing manager, necessitating … Read More

Chipmaker AMD is going after the stranglehold of rival Intel in the datacentre processor market with the launch of the feature-packed EPYC, which AMD hopes will re-ignite prospects in a multi-billion dollar market it lost ground in the last decade. Five years in the works, the EPYC boasts of 32 cores, comprising four octa-core chips clubbed together providing up to 2TB of memory per processing … Read More

Open source computing has always been a major boon to the world of developers, and technology as a whole. Take Google’s pioneering Android OS for example, based on the open source code, which can be safely credited with impacting the world of everyday technology in an unprecedented manner when it was introduced. It is, hence, no surprise when a large part of … Read More

Linux creator Linus Torvalds on Sunday announced the arrival of the Linux 4.12 kernel, which is notable for its size thanks to addition support for AMD’s new Radeon RX Vega graphics card. “Things were quite calm this week, so I really didn’t have any real reason to delay the 4.12 release,” wrote Torvalds. As noted by Phoronix, Linux 4.12 brought over one million … Read More

As anticipated last week, version 4.12 of the Linux kernel landed Sunday amid a storm of … well, placidity, as it happens. Linus Torvald’s release announcement is suitably low-key for something he expected to land without fuss. “Things were quite calm this week, so I really didn’t have any real reason to delay the 4.12 release”, he writes. The “just plain big” release has … Read More

As you doubtlessly have noticed, IT is moving away from server rooms and data centers to clouds and containers. Red Hat, the leading Linux company, has. In its latest release of its hybrid cloud, the Red Hat Cloud Suite, Red Hat proclaims it offers “an end-to-end, deployment-ready solution for enterprise digital transformation.” Shorn of the marketing buzz, this means Red Hat claims … Read More

Over the years, Arch Linux has had the misfortune of being maligned as one of the more challenging modern Linux distributions. That’s a shame, because Arch Linux is one of the most solid distributions you’ll find. Nonetheless, new users finding their way over to the official Arch Linux installation guide may choose to return to the likes of Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Now, however, there are other … Read More

Today’s digital marketers use an ever-increasing amount of software to plan, organize, execute, measure, and report on marketing campaigns. Marketers often refer to the various software they use as the “marketing stack.” In many cases, that software is proprietary. There are several very good reasons why marketers should consider building out their marketing stack on open source software. One is that … Read More

If you still think Microsoft is all about Windows, wake up. Corey Sanders, Microsoft’s director of Azure Compute, told me at Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., one in three Azure virtual machines (VM) run on Linux. On top of that, Sanders continued, over 60 percent of Azure Marketplace images are Linux-based. As I like to say, “This is … Read More

At the recent Automotive Linux Summit, held May 31 to June 2 in Tokyo, The Linux Foundation’s Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) project had one of its biggest announcements in its short history: The first automobile with AGLs open source Linux based Unified Code Base (UCB) infotainment stack will hit the streets in a few months. In his ALS keynote presentation, AGL director Dan … Read More

The Linux kernel contains a lot of code support for Xen. This code isn’t just meant to optimize Linux to run as a virtualized guest. As a type 1 hypervisor, Xen relies a lot on the support of the operating system running as dom0. Although other operating systems can be used as dom0, Linux is the most popular dom0 choice … Read More

Updated The Royal Navy’s brand new £3.5bn aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth is running Windows XP in her flying control room, according to reports. Defence correspondents from The Times and The Guardian, when being given a tour of the carrier’s aft island – the rear of the two towers protruding above the ship’s main deck – spotted Windows XP apparently … Read More

Organizations everywhere are implementing container technology, and many of them are also turning to Kubernetes as a solution for orchestrating containers. Kubernetes is attractive for its extensible architecture and healthy open source community, but some still feel that it is too difficult to use. Now, new tools are emerging that help streamline Kubernetes and make building container-based applications easier. Here, … Read More