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[SUSE] Announces Free RHEL Fork to Preserve Choice in Enterprise Linux

SUSE plans to fork Red Hat Enterprise Linux from publicly available sources and offer a RHEL-compatible distribution free to everyone, without restrictions. Don't expect it soon, though: SUSE says the fork will be developed over the next few years, alongside its own commercial SUSE Linux Enterprise.

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[Oracle] Keep Linux Open and Free - We Can’t Afford Not To

Oracle responds to Red Hat's decision to stop publicly releasing RHEL source code by pledging to keep Linux open and free. I never thought I'd agree with Oracle, but here we are. It may also be a case of never letting a crisis go to waste. Could Oracle pick up the pieces and offer a new CentOS?

pfsense

[pfSense] CE 2.7.0 Software and pfSense Plus 23.05.1 Software Now Available for Upgrades

pfSense CE 2.7.0 and pfSense Plus 23.05.1 are available. Highlights include PHP 8.2, a FreeBSD 14-CURRENT base, ChaCha20-Poly1305 for IPsec, Captive Portal moved to PF, UPnP fixes for game consoles, new gateway state killing options, OpenVPN 2.6.4, and a new Packet Capture GUI.

proxmox

PROXMOX BACKUP SERVER 3.0

Proxmox Backup Server 3.0, released June 28, 2023, is based on Debian 12 Bookworm with the Linux 6.2 kernel and ZFS 2.1.12. It supports a seamless upgrade from 2.4, adds a transfer-last option for more flexible sync jobs, and ships a new text-based installer UI written in Rust.

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[RockyLinux] Rocky Linux Expresses Confidence Despite Red Hat's Announcement

Rocky Linux, a prominent community-driven open-source distribution of Enterprise Linux (EL), remains confident in its ability to continue as a bug-for-bug compatible and freely available alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), despite changes in accessibility

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[AlmaLinux] Impact of RHEL changes to AlmaLinux

Yesterday, RedHat announced another massive shift that impacts all rebuilds and forks of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Going forward, Red Hat will now only be releasing the source code for RHEL RPMs behind their customer portal.

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[FOSS Post] Red Hat is Shooting Itself in the Foot, Again!

Red Hat announced that it would start locking the source code for RHEL packages behind a subscription paywall, making it very much harder to build derivative and RHEL-compatible distributions like Rocky Linux and others.

cybersecurity

[TheHackerNews] Zero-Day Alert: Apple Releases Patches for Actively Exploited Flaws in iOS, macOS, and Safari

Apple has released updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari to fix a set of vulnerabilities it says were actively exploited in the wild. The Hacker News covers the zero-days and the affected platforms.

vyos

VyOS 1.3.3 LTS release

VyOS 1.3.3 (Equuleus) LTS release is now available for download to subscribers and contributors. Still, it's finally out, with significant feature backports, multiple minor improvements, and of course, bug fixes — read on for details!

cyberweapons

[Microsoft] Response to Layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks

Beginning in early June 2023, Microsoft identified surges in traffic against some services that temporarily impacted availability. Microsoft promptly opened an investigation and subsequently began tracking ongoing DDoS activity by the threat actor that Microsoft tracks as Storm-1359.

cybersecurity

[VulnCheck] Fake Security Researcher GitHub Repositories Deliver Malicious Implant

As part of VulnCheck’s Exploit Intelligence offering, we monitor and review large amounts of GitHub repositories. The review process exists to filter out useless, malicious, and/or scam repositories.

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[SecurityWeek] Swiss Fear Government Data Stolen in Cyberattack

Switzerland says government operational data may have been stolen in a ransomware attack on a technology firm that supplies software to several federal departments. SecurityWeek reports on the incident.