Getting Linux to run on the M1 family wasn't easy. When these high-powered ARM chips first arrived, Torvalds told me in an exclusive interview that he'd like to run Linux on these next-generation Macs. But, while he'd been "waiting for an ARM laptop that can run Linux for a long time," he worried, saying, "The main problem with the M1 for me is the GPU and other devices around it because that's li

The best Linux Foundation classes Want a good tech job? Then you need to know Linux and open-source software. One of the best ways to learn is via a Linux Foundation course. Read now This isn't just a theory being pushed by Rust enthusiasts. A great deal of Rust in Linux is already being pushed out into the market. Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released Bottlerocket Linux for containers and i

The European Linux giant will soon be spun out from EQT in an IPO later this year. The rumors were true. EQT, the Swedish-based private equity firm with €52 billion in assets, is getting ready to spin SUSE, the leading European Union (EU) Linux distributor, out in an IPO. The SUSE IPO, according to Reuters and ZDNet sources, will be worth €7 billion to €8 billion ($8.3 billion to $9.5 billion). Th

The ISRG says it plans to develop a new module called mod_tls that will do the same thing but using the Rust programming language rather than C. The module will be based on Rustls; a Rust open-source library developed as an alternative to the C-based OpenSSL project. To lead this work, the ISRG management has contracted Stefan Eissing, the founder of software consultancy firm Greenbytes, and one o

Windows RDP servers running on UDP port 3389 can be ensnared in DDoS botnets and abused to bounce and amplify junk traffic towards victim networks. Cybercrime gangs are abusing Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) systems to bounce and amplify junk traffic as part of DDoS attacks, security firm Netscout said in an alert on Tuesday. Not all RDP servers can be abused, but only systems where RDP aut

With Wikipedia and WordPress among big sites running on server-side PHP code, it remains one of the most commonly used scripting languages for building websites and web applications, according to Stack Overflow – even if it is considered one of the "most-dreaded" languages to use. SEE: Diversity and Inclusion policy (TechRepublic Premium) According to Indeed, the US national average salary for an

Servo was hatched in 2012 at Firefox-maker Mozilla, which recently made significant headcount reductions that mostly affected developers working on Servo. Servo is written in the programming language Rust, giving it advantages in memory safety, speed and parallelism over other browser engines. SEE: Hiring Kit: Python developer (TechRepublic Premium) It has the potential to be an alternative to Goo

The best online collaboration tools Teams need tools to help them collaborate and stay productive while remotely working. Here's our top picks. Read now By default, GitHub uses the term "master" for the primary version of a source code repository. Developers make copies of the "master" on their computers into which they add their own code, and then merge the changes back into the "master" repo. "O

While the Foundation has issued several Linux kernel history reports before, this one is unique. That's because, thanks to the work of Dr. Daniel German and his cregit tool, it's now possible to track all three of the kernels' different development stages: Pre-version control, September 1991 until February 4, 2002;  BitKeeper, February 4, 2002 to April 15, 2005; and git, April 16, 2005 to today. C

What is phishing? Everything you need to know to protect yourself from scam emails and more Don't click on that email! Find everything you need to know in this phishing guide including how to protect yourself from one of the most common forms of cyber attack. Read now Google has patched on Wednesday a major security bug impacting the Gmail and G Suite email servers. The bug could have allowed a th

How the top VPNs compare: Plus, should you try a free VPN? We tested the best VPN services -- focusing on the number of servers, ability to unlock streaming services, and more -- to determine a No. 1 overall. Plus, we tell you whether free VPNs are worth trying. Read now The Chinese government has deployed an update to its national censorship tool, known as the Great Firewall (GFW), to block encry

Ransomware: An executive guide to one of the biggest menaces on the web Everything you need to know about ransomware: how it started, why it's booming, how to protect against it, and what to do if your PC is infected. Read now The company is currently planning a multi-day maintenance window to deal with the attack's aftermath, which includes shutting down its official website, the Garmin Connect u

"If building Rustic interfaces within the kernel requires some additional language features, we should see what enhancements to the language would best serve those requirements," he said in a mailing list discussion about a proposed Linux Plumbers Conference session on support for Rust in the Linux kernel tree. SEE: Hiring Kit: Python developer (TechRepublic Premium) "I've often seen the sentiment

How the top VPNs compare: Plus, should you try a free VPN? We tested the best VPN services -- focusing on the number of servers, ability to unlock streaming services, and more -- to determine a No. 1 overall. Plus, we tell you whether free VPNs are worth trying. Read now Amazon said its AWS Shield service mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever recorded, stopping a 2.3 Tbps attack in mid-February t

In a terrible year, it was a great moment. On May 30, SpaceX's Crew Dragon, the first private-manned spacecraft ever and the first US-manned spaceflight in nine years, successfully delivered NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley into orbit. Taking them was SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9, powered by rocket fuel and Linux. Like supercomputers, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and many mission-cri

Linus Torvalds rejects 'beyond stupid' AWS-made Linux patch for Intel CPU Snoop attack Linux kernel developers debate a controversial patch to address potential leaks of secrets from a CPU's cores. Linux kernel head Linus Torvalds has trashed a patch from Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineers that was aimed at mitigating the Snoop attack on Intel CPUs discovered by an AWS engineer earlier this year.

Academics say they discovered 26 new vulnerabilities in the USB driver stack employed by operating systems such as Linux, MacOS, Windows, and FreeBSD. The research team, made up by Hui Peng from Purdue University and Mathias Payer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, said all the bugs were discovered with a new tool they created, named USBFuzz. The tool is what security experts

Linux not Windows: Why Munich is shifting back from Microsoft to open source – again Munich's flip-flop back to open source is the latest sign of Germany's political sea change over proprietary software. In a notable U-turn for the city, newly elected politicians in Munich have decided that its administration needs to use open-source software, instead of proprietary products like Microsoft Office.