Security experts have revealed that a Linux botnet using XOR DDoS malware discovered last years has grown so powerful that it can virtually bring any victim’s network to a grinding halt by…
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Linux Mint 17.1 ‘Rebecca’ released
The team behind Linux Mint has released their latest distribution – Linux Mint 17.1 ‘Rebecca’ – as a general release making it available for everyone to download. Dubbed as a long term…
Shellshock Bash bug pegged as ‘worse than Heartbleed’
The biggest security threat – ‘bigger than Heartbleed’ – as numerous researchers are touting it, is looming large over every computer-user. Reportedly concealed in one of the most fundamental interfaces powering the…
China working on new Windows-like Linux OS after Windows 8 ban
China wants its citizens to adopt Linux; give away Windows.
Linux 3.15-rc7 released
Linus Torvalds is back on his regular release cycle.
Linux skills helping professional move forward – 2014 Linux Jobs Report
The Linux Foundations’ 2014 Linux Jobs Report reveals that Hiring managers are looking for professionals with Linux skills with increasing number of organisations the world over considering Linux as a core part…
Linux distributor Red Flag Software disappears overnight
Red Flag Software, a Chinese company and once world’s second largest Linux distributor, has disappeared overnight because of alleged mismanagement and corruption at the management level. Red Flag Software liquidated all its…
Resetting Windows administrator password using Linux
Forgetting Windows admin password could be one of the worst things specifically when a maintenance window is scheduled or you need to install some software urgently and only have access to an…
Linux 3.13-rc8 released; final most likely to release next week
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 3.13-rc8 as anticipated, while revealing that the final release should most probably happen next week. The latest rc doesn’t come with anything interesting and packs usual drivers…
Fedora 20 delayed till December 17
Fedora 20, originally slated for a November 26 release, has been delayed again till December 17 because a number of bugs still remain unfixed – major ones related to Anaconda component of…
CentOS 6.5 released
CentOS project team has released version 6.5 of CentOS Enterprise Linux for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures marking the fifth release in the 6.x series. Some of the new features in CentOS…
Linux Mint 16 ‘Petra’ Cinnamon, MATE editions released
The team behind Linux Mint has announced two of the distributions latest versions – Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon and Linux Mint 16 MATE – which are now available for download. The team…
Linux 3.12 released as Torvalds brews Linux 4.0 plans
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 3.12 keeping in line with the Sunday release cycle and has also started brewing plans for Linux 4.0 slated for 2014 end release. The Linux 3.12 kernel…
Linux 3.12-rc7 released, final version expected next week
Linux 3.12-rc7, which would probably be the last of the release candidates for Linux 3.12, has been released. The decrease in the rc sizes which was observed over the course of last…
Linux 3.12-rc6 released a day early
Linus Torvalds has released Linux-3.12-rc6 as he is flying out to attend a kernel summit taking place in Edinburgh. Torvalds notes in the release announcement that nothing major happened this week and…