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

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

SUSE announced, that it plans to offer a free alternative to RHEL and CentOS users.

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

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

IBM doesn’t want to continue publicly releasing RHEL source code because it has to pay its engineers? That seems odd, given that Red Hat as a successful independent open source company ...

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

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

This includes improvements in captive portal and limiters, UPnP for game systems, new gateway state killing options, Firewall/NAT rule usability, and more.

PROXMOX BACKUP SERVER 3.0

PROXMOX BACKUP SERVER 3.0

The Proxmox team is excited to announce the release of Proxmox Backup Server 3.0. It's based on Debian 12 "Bookworm", but uses the newer Linux kernel 6.2, and includes ZFS 2.1.12.

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

[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

[AlmaLinux] Impact of RHEL changes to AlmaLinux

[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.

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

[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.

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

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

Apple on Wednesday released a slew of updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari browser to address a set of flaws it said were actively exploited in the wild.

VyOS 1.3.3 LTS release

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!

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

[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.

[VulnCheck] Fake Security Researcher GitHub Repositories Deliver Malicious Implant

[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.

[SecurityWeek] Swiss Fear Government Data Stolen in Cyberattack

[SecurityWeek] Swiss Fear Government Data Stolen in Cyberattack

Switzerland said Thursday that government operational data might have been stolen in a cyberattack on the technology firm that provides software for several departments.