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Last week, a nine-year old bug was uncovered in the Linux kernel that can give attackers root-level access to machines running the Linux operating system. Because the vulnerability is related to how the kernel handles copy-on-write memory, it has been dubbed 'Dirty COW'. The security flaw exists on every distribution of the operating system.

The Linux Foundation’s Hadoop project, ODPi, and Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) are teaming up on November 7 for a can’t miss webinar for Chief Data Officers and their Big Data Teams.

Do you remember Monopoly and Life and Clue, and all those old classic board games you played as a kid because sometimes you were just that bored? Do you recall ever reading the instructions? Probably not, because nobody reads the instructions for those games.

This month's issue starts off with Reuven M. Lerner discussing machine learning. Whether you consider it creepy or incredible (or possibly somewhere in between), sites like Amazon.com do an amazing job of determining what sorts of things you might want to buy.

HPE has quietly begun to lay off yet more programmers and software engineers.

Adlink announced four modules, in SMARC 2.0, Qseven, and COM Express Compact format, plus a Mini-ITX board — all based on Intel’s 14nm “Apollo Lake” SoCs. Adlink has rolled out the most comprehensive range of products yet supporting Intel’s 14nm-fabricated Atom E3900 “Apollo Lake” SoCs. Like rival Congatec’s Apollo Lake roll-out, the Adlink announcement includes […]

GNU GRUB has been the number one choice among the available system bootloaders for many years now, so replacing such a trusty piece of software for something else isn’t exactly common among Linux users. That is why I will suggest to replace it with a fork of GRUB that is called BURG. BURG is better than GRUB in basically one thing and that is better and easier configuration capacity. So, if you’re having complaints in this field from GRUB, read on. In this quick guide, I will showcase how to install and configure BURG in the latest Elementary which is based on the latest Ubuntu LTS version.

No one aside from Linus Torvalds has more influence or name recognition in the Linux Kernel project than Greg Kroah-Hartman. More commonly known as GKH, the ex SUSE kernel developer and USB driver maintainer is now a Linux Foundation Fellow and the full-time maintainer of the -stable Linux branch and staging subsystem, among other roles.

Linux and Unix systems have long made it pretty easy to run a command on boot. Just add your command to /etc/rc.local and away you go. But as it turns out, running a command on shutdown is a little more complicated. read more

Aaeon’s “Up Squared” hacker SBC offers dual- or quad-core Intel Apollo Lake SoCs, plus up to 8GB RAM, SATA, dual HDMI, 4K video, dual GbE, miniPCIe, and more. Aaeon Europe has launched a Kickstarter project for a follow-up to its x86-based “Up” hacker board. If it shipped today instead of its May 2017 due date, […]

As coordinator for the Minnesota State Digital Curricula Initiative, Charles Bentz faces a unique challenge: How to teach DevOps (agile, relentless, fast) in an academic context (inflexible, deliberate, slow)? But Bentz has found a way—and it's been successful enough that he's ready to share it. He'll do just that at this year's DevOps Enterprise Summit during his presentation, "Influencing Higher Education to Create the Future DevOps Workforce." read more

HTTPS is a small island of security in this insecure world, and in this day and age, there is absolutely no reason not to have it on every Web site you host. Up until last year, there was just a single last excuse: purchasing certificates was kind of pricey.

In every way that matters, OpenStack is getting bigger.

With the final major capability for BPF tracing (timed sampling) merging in Linux 4.9-rc1, the Linux kernel now has raw capabilities similar to those provided by DTrace, the advanced tracer from Solaris... In this post I'll describe how you can use these tools, the front-ends available, and discuss where the technology is going next.

How can a Linux geek have a fun Halloween? It's not as hard as you might imagine. Before you put away your costume and all those decorations that you put up to scare your neighbors' kids, make a stab at turning your office into a scary place for a day. Here are some tips that might help you enjoy your spooky day and bring a little cheer into your office.

Lenovo recently caved in to criticism over many of its Yoga 900 laptops that incorporated Windows 10 Signature Edition by releasing a BIOS update that allows owners to install Linux-based operating systems. The company was the target of scrutiny last month when customers accused it of conspiring with Microsoft by blocking the installation of non-Windows platforms at the firmware level.

This week, we take a look back at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona and some of the news, announcements, and observations from the event.

The state of Georgia was nationally recognized last month by the National Association of State CIOs for its Accessible Platform Initiative. The initiative is the first step in Georgia's drive to improve access to all its digital properties. read more

The US government has updated and published a new list of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a move perhaps long-overdue which will protect cybersecurity professionals from prosecution when reverse-engineering products for research purposes.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Linux Malware Detect (LMD) with Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV). I will use CentOS 7 as the operating system.