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[VyOS] Project July 2023 Update

[VyOS] Project July 2023 Update

In June, there was a lot of work done on VyOS. Why is this update so short, then? One reason is that VyOS 1.4 is now on the way to becoming the new LTS release, and there's a lot of work on smoke tests and refactoring that is required to stabilize it.

[THN] U.S. Government Agencies' Emails Compromised in China-Backed Cyber Attack

[THN] U.S. Government Agencies' Emails Compromised in China-Backed Cyber Attack

An unnamed Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agency in the U.S. detected anomalous email activity in mid-June 2023, leading to Microsoft's discovery of a new China-linked espionage campaign targeting two dozen organizations.

[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.