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This Linux smartphone is now shipping for $150

posted onJanuary 21, 2020
by l33tdawg
Credit: ZDNet

Computer and developer-board maker Pine64 has started shipping the first edition of its much-anticipated – at least in the open-source community – PinePhone, after pre-orders sold out. Dubbed "Brave Heart", the device is indeed designed only for the keener hobbyists.

Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast, like “make old hardware feel new” fast

posted onNovember 29, 2019
by l33tdawg
Credit: Arstechnica

Leaves are turning. Temperatures have dipped. These are sure signs—if you live in the Northern Hemisphere, at least—that Canonical's Autumn release is upon us. Things are a bit different in 2019, however. Not only is Ubuntu 19.10 nicknamed Eoan Ermine (no, I don't know how you pronounce it either), but it's the best non-LTS Ubuntu release Canonical has ever put out.

Linux on your laptop: A closer look at EFI boot options

posted onAugust 26, 2019
by l33tdawg
Credit: Flickr

For some time now I have gotten a slow but steady volume of requests that I write about UEFI firmware and EFI boot relative to installing and maintaining Linux. As a result of a casual comment I made in a recent post about installing Linux on a new laptop, the volume has gone up considerably.  

Linus Torvalds Sees Lots of Hardware Headaches Ahead

posted onJuly 1, 2019
by l33tdawg
Credit: DevOps

Linux founder Linus Torvalds, today at the KubeCon + CloudNative + Open Source Summit China conference, warned attendees that managing software is about to become a lot more challenging, largely because of two hardware issues that are beyond the control of DevOps teams.

Steam and Ubuntu clash over 32-bit libs

posted onJune 25, 2019
by l33tdawg
Credit: Arstechnica

It has been a tumultuous week for gaming on Linux. Last Tuesday afternoon, Canonical's Steve Langasek announced that 32-bit libs would be frozen (kept as-is, with no new builds or updates) as of this October's interim 19.10 release, codenamed "Eoan Ermine." Langasek was pretty clear that this did not mean abandoning support for running 32-bit applications, however.

Security researchers discover Linux version of Winnti malware

posted onMay 23, 2019
by l33tdawg
Credit: ZDNet

For the first time, security researchers have uncovered and analyzed a Linux variant of Winnti, one of the favorite hacking tools used by Beijing hackers over the past decade.

Discovered by security researchers from Chronicle, Alphabet's cyber-security division, the Linux version of the Winnti malware works as a backdoor on infected hosts, granting attackers access to compromised systems.

Linux 5 is on the way

posted onJanuary 9, 2019
by l33tdawg
Credit: Wikipedia

Linus Torvalds has announced Linux 5.0 is on its way. But don't get too worked up about it. Torvalds isn't.

In his Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) post, Torvalds wrote, "The numbering change is not indicative of anything special. If you want to have an official reason, it's that I ran out of fingers and toes to count on, so 4.21 became 5.0."

Surely, there's more to it than that. Right? Nope. Torvalds went on, "Go wild. Make up your own reason for why it's 5.0."

Linux Kernel 4.18 Reached End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Linux 4.19

posted onNovember 30, 2018
by l33tdawg
Credit: Softpedia News

Renowned Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the end of life of the Linux 4.18 kernel series, urging users to upgrade their distributions to a newer kernel as soon as possible.

Released on August 12, 2018, by Linus Torvalds, the Linux 4.18 kernel series introduced Spectre Variant 1 and Spectre Variant 2 mitigations for 32-bit ARM architectures, Spectre Variant 4 mitigations for the ARM64 (AArch64) and ARMv8 architectures, and initial support for the Radeon Vega 20 GPUs.

Sorry, Linux. Kubernetes is now the OS that matters

posted onNovember 23, 2018
by l33tdawg

The operating system no longer really matters. And for developers and the cloud, that means that Linux no longer really matters.

You can see proof of that in what has not happened. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has not gotten a $34 billion buyout offer from IBM, even though company founder Mark Shutteworth would have taken that deal, despite protestations that the company isn’t looking for a buyer.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will be supported for a full decade

posted onNovember 19, 2018
by l33tdawg
Credit: Beta News

Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Ubuntu 18.04 will be supported for ten years. Long Term Support releases of Ubuntu usually enjoy just five years of support, so this doubling is highly significant.