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Microsoft's licence riddles give Linux and pals a free ride to virtual domination
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2013-12-13 02:03
Microsoft is caught in a monkey-trap, created by cloud computing and Free Software, coupled with short-term thinking and a dose of not-invented-here syndrome.
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Weird PHP-poking Linux worm slithers into home routers, Internet of Things
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2013-11-28 14:45
Symantec has stumbled across a worm that exploits various vulnerabilities in PHP to infect Intel x86-powered Linux devices. The security biz says the malware threatens to compromise home broadband routers and similar equipment.
However, home internet kit with x86 chips are few and far between – most network-connected embedded devices are powered by ARM or MIPS processors – so the threat seems almost non-existent.
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Linux 4.0 may have only bug fixes, no new features
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-11-06 01:38
Linux operating system creator Linus Torvalds has proposed that Linux 4.0, an upcoming release of the open-source software, should be dedicated to stability and bug fixing.
Although his initial reaction to a suggestion for a separate bug-fixing release from Dirk Hohndel, chief Linux and open source technologist at Intel, was to criticize it, as "I didn't see most of us having the attention span required for that," Torvalds is now asking for comments on a proposal to have Linux 4.0 as the bug-fix release in about a year's time.
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Samsung Sweden to Linux User: "UEFI BIOS Bug Not Our Problem"
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2013-10-31 00:29
Linux is a common operating system, not least in its Android version, and it is universally assumed that a PC (or whatever “IBM compatible” is called these days) will be able to run it. In fact, machines that can’t run Linux are extremely rare since aficionados keep porting the open-source operating system to even the most obscure and outdated machine families.
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Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu?
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-09-25 23:56
History is written years after the events it describes. But when the history of free software finally is written, I am increasingly convinced that this last year will be noted as the start of the decline of Ubuntu.
At first, the idea might seem ridiculous or spiteful. You can still find Ubuntu enthusiasts who exclaim over every move the distribution makes, and journalists still report founder Mark Shuttleworth's every word uncritically.
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