Linux Stories for 2018

Canonical Shares Top 10 Linux Snaps of 2018 102
Banana Pi 24-Core ARM Server Running Ubuntu Breaks Cover 88
Linux 4.20 Released in Time for Christmas 47
Lubuntu, a Popular Ubuntu Flavor, To Stop Providing 32-Bit Releases 111
Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name 521
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Comes To Windows 10 in the Form of WLinux Enterprise 124
Tesla Model 3 Modded To Run Ubuntu 87
Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support 202
ESET Discovers 21 New Linux Malware Families 67
Developer Misinterprets Linux Code of Conduct, Suggests Replacing F-Word with 'Hug' 402
Is Linux Taking Over The World? 243
RISC-V and Linux Foundations Partner to Promote Open Source CPU 92
Two Linux Kernels Revert Performance-Killing Spectre Patches 103
New Linux Crypto-miner Steals Your Root Password and Disables Your Antivirus 110
Mark Shuttleworth Reveals Ubuntu 18.04 Will Get a 10-Year Support Lifespan 110
Linux 4.20 is Running Slower Than 4.19 On Intel CPUs 137
Uber Joins Linux Foundation Cementing Commitment To Open Source Tools 30
Apple Blocks Linux From Booting On New Hardware With T2 Security Chip 373
WLinux, the First Paid-for Linux Distro for Windows 10, Goes On Sale on Microsoft Store 207
Facebook's GraphQL Gets Its Own Open-Source Foundation 33
Microsoft Working on Porting Sysinternals To Linux 183
How New, Polite Linus Torvalds Points Out Bad Kernel Code 370
Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024 203
System76 Thelio Computer is Open Source, Linux-Powered, and Made in the USA 139
'Open Source Creators: Red Hat Got $34 Billion and You Got $0. Here's Why.' 236
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Released 53
Fedora 29 Released 31
The Linux Kernel Is Now VLA-Free: A Win For Security, Less Overhead and Better For Clang 113
You Can Play Over 2,600 Windows Games on Linux Via Steam Play 106
IBM To Buy Red Hat, the Top Linux Distributor, For $34 Billion 398
Linus Torvalds and Greg K-H Talk About Linux Community, Dealing with Hardware Bugs, Chromebooks Gaining Traction, Microsoft, Companies Gleaning Data and More 21
New SystemD Vulnerability Discovered 204
Canonical Releases Statistics Showing Adoption of Snap Packages 62
Trivial Bug In X.Org Server Gives Root Permissions On Linux, BSD Systems 114
Linus Torvalds is Back in Charge of Linux 395
Ubuntu Linux 18.10 'Cosmic Cuttlefish' Arrives 99
Software Freedom Conservancy Shares Thoughts on Microsoft Joining Open Invention Network's Patent Non-Aggression Pact 66
Plex for Linux Now Available as a Snap 61
KDE Plasma 5.14 Released 41
Greg Kroah-Hartman: Outside Phone Vendors Aren't Updating Their Linux Kernels 86
A Look at Facebook's Use of Systemd 84
Ubuntu Linux 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Beta Now Available For Desktop, Cloud and Server Versions 73
Linux Kernel Finally Nearing Support For The Apple Magic Trackpad 2, Thanks To a Google Employee 52
System76's Much-Anticipated Open Source 'Thelio' Linux Computer Will Be Available To Pre-Order Starting Next Month, But Shipping Date and Specs Remain Unclear 80
Richard Stallman Says Linux Code Contributions Can't Be Rescinded 588
Linux Now Dominates Azure 160
Linus Torvalds On Linux's Code of Conduct 755
Fedora 29 Beta Now Available For Download With Improved Raspberry Pi Support 17
New Custom Linux Distro is Systemd-Free, Debian-Based, and Optimized for Windows 10 165
The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds 663
LLVM 7.0 Released: Better CPU Support, AMDGPU Vega 20; Clang 7.0 Gets FMV and OpenCL C++ 76
Linux On Windows 10: Running Ubuntu VMs Just Got a Lot Easier, Says Microsoft 193
Chrome OS Revamp Delivers a New Look and Linux App Support 30
A $1, Linux-Capable, Hand-Solderable Processor 114
Linux Community To Adopt New Code of Conduct 780
Linus Torvalds Reflects On How He's Been Hostile To Linux Community Members Over the Years, Issues Apology, and Announces He Will Be Taking Some Time Off 985
The Linux Kernel Has Grown By 225,000 Lines of Code This Year, With Contributions From About 3,300 Developers 88
Some Linux Gamers Using Wine/DXVK To Play Blizzard's Overwatch Banned 81
Windows, Linux Kodi Users Infected With Cryptomining Malware 58
Linux Distro Elive Emerges Alive After 8-Year Hibernation 89
Despite 'Painful' Spectre Response, Linus Torvalds Says He Still Loves Speculative Execution 82
Linus Torvalds Got Confused About 'When and Where' Maintainer's Summit Is Going To be Held, So Organizers Moved the Entire Conference 118
Intel Blocked Collaboration On Spectre/Meltdown Fixes, Says Linux Kernel Developer 83
How Do Spectre/Meltdown Fixes Affect The Linux Kernel? 29
Linus Torvalds No Longer Knows the Whole Linux Kernel and That's OK 119
The Linux Foundation Is Changing The Fabric Of Networking 31
What Dropbox Dropping Linux Support Says 424
Linux 4.19 Preparing Better CPU Security Mitigations, New EROFS File-System 88
Linux Turns 27 170
Linux Apps Are Not Coming To Many Still-Supported Chromebooks 61
Windows 95 Is Now An App You Can Download and Install On macOS, Windows, and Linux 183
Intel Publishes Microcode Security Patches With No Benchmarks Or Profiling Allowed 373
Steam Gets Built-in Tools To Let You Run Windows Games on Linux -- Now Available in Beta 206
Linux Study Argues Monolithic OS Design Leads To Critical Exploits 198
Encrypt NFSv4 with TLS Encryption Using Stunnel 83
Debian Linux Turns 25 111
Valve Seems To Be Working On Tools To Get Windows Games Running On Linux 196
Linux 4.18 Releases With Steam Controller Kernel Driver, Spectre Updates 47
Dropbox Is Dropping Support For All Linux File Systems Except Unencrypted Ext4 258
Hollywood Goes Open Source: Academy Teams Up With Linux Foundation To Launch Academy Software Foundation 49
TCP Flaw Lets Remote Attackers Stall Devices With Tiny DoS Attack 54
Lenovo To Make Its BIOS/UEFI Updates Easier For Linux Users Via LVFS 62
Ubuntu Linux-based Distro Lubuntu To No Longer Focus on Old Hardware 85
German State Plans To Migrate 13,000 Workstations From Linux to Windows 325
NetBSD 8.0 Released 215
Microsoft PowerShell Core For Linux Now Available as a Snap 154
System76 Linux Computer Maker Offers a Sneak Peek Into Its New Factory 110
Slackware, Oldest Actively Maintained GNU/Linux Distribution, Turns 25 202
Systemd-Free Artix Linux OS is Looking For Packagers 209
Intel Sends in a Final Batch Of DRM Feature Updates Targeting Linux 4.19 49
Gentoo Linux Github Organization Repo Hack Was Down To a Series of Security Mistakes 42
SUSE Linux Sold For $2.5 Billion 96
Linux Mint 19 'Tara' Released 75
Rewards of Up to $500,000 Offered for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux Zero-Days 91
GitHub Gentoo Organization Hacked 41
Finally, It's the Year of the Linux... Supercomputer 171
Tencent Joins the Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member 25
Red Hat Changes Its Open-Source Licensing Rules 160
Linux 4.18 Preparing Many New Features While Dropping 100k+ Lines of Code 105
'Open Source Security' Loses in Court, Must Pay $259,900 To Bruce Perens 141
KDE Plasma 5.13 Released 96
Clear Linux Beats MacOS in MacBook Pro Benchmark Tests 155
Systemd-Free Devuan 2.0 'ASCII' Officially Released 313
Linux Foundation Celebrates Microsoft's GitHub Acquisition 162
Linux 4.17 Released 28
Windows 10 Spring Update Improves Linux On WSL With Unix Sockets and More 216
Mystery Donor Pledges $1 Million To The GNOME Foundation 150
There Are Real Reasons For Linux To Replace ifconfig, netstat and Other Classic Tools 478
Robin "Roblimo" Miller, a Long-Time Voice of the Linux Community, Has Passed Away 344
Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth Pulls No Punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack Cloud 64
Canonical Shares Desktop Plans For Ubuntu 18.10 81
Ask Slashdot: Some Good Linux Desktop Option For Kids? 179
Fedora-Based Linux Distro Korora Halts Development 68
Ask Slashdot: Is It Linux or GNU/Linux? 521
Microsoft Works To Port Ubuntu To Windows ARM 107
System76 Oryx Pro Linux Laptop is Now Thinner and Faster 115
Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings 291
You Can Now Run Linux Apps On Chrome OS 106
Ubuntu Considering an HTML5-Based OS Installer 179
Fedora 28 Featuring GNOME 3.28 Released 76
USB 3.2 Work Is On The Way For The Linux 4.18 Kernel: Report 65
Ubuntu 18.04 Focuses On Security and AI Improvements 89
Chrome 66 Arrives With Autoplaying Content Blocked By Default 88
Microsoft Built Its Own Custom Linux Kernel For Its New IoT Service 199
Linus Torvalds Says Linux Kernel v5.0 'Should Be Meaningless' 165
Linux 4.17 Kernel Offers Better Intel Power-Savings While Dropping Old CPUs 136
Microsoft Windows 10 Gains Linux/WSL Console Copy and Paste Functionality 168
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 7.5 Released 64
'Fuchsia Is Not Linux': Google Publishes Documentation Explaining Their New OS 245
Linux Computer Maker System76 To Move Manufacturing To the US 136
Linux: Beep Command Can Be Used to Probe for the Presence of Sensitive Files 109
Torvalds Opposes Tying UEFI Secure Boot to Kernel Lockdown Mode 69
Microsoft Open Source Tool Lets You 'Bring Your Own Linux' To Windows 135
Symantec May Violate Linux GPL in Norton Core Router 144
Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 2 Now Available 97
Valve Re-affirms Commitment To SteamOS and Linux After Hiding Steam Machines from Store 99
Fedora 28 Beta Linux Distro is Finally Here 37
Red Hat CEO Talks About State Of Open Source 64
Linux 4.16 Released 119
Microsoft Releases New Tool To Get More Distros on Windows 216
Windows Server 2019 Will Feature Linux and Kubernetes Support 99
Microsoft Joins Group Working To 'Cure' Open-Source Licensing Issues 104
Linux Mint 19 'Tara' Cinnamon Will Be Faster 61
Vim Beats Emacs in 'Linux Journal' Reader Survey 195
Linus Torvalds Slams CTS Labs Over AMD Vulnerability Report 115
GNOME 3.28 'Chongqing' Linux Is Here 132
Ubuntu Linux 18.04 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 1 Now Available For Download 101
Linux Developer McHardy Drops GPLv2 'Shake Down' Case 53
Debian 9.4 Released 78
Ask Slashdot: Should We Worry Microsoft Will 'Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish' Linux? 431
Chrome 65 Arrives With Material Design Extensions Page, New Developer Features 34
Kali Linux For WSL Now Available in the Windows Store 69
Chrome On Windows Ditches Microsoft's Compiler, Now Uses Clang 94
Chrome OS Could Be Getting Containers for Running Linux VMs 57
Botched npm Update Crashes Linux Systems, Forces Users to Reinstall 256
Enthusiasts have Turned the Nintendo Switch into a Functional Linux Tablet 96
Ask Slashdot: Could Linux Ever Become Fully Compatible With Windows and Mac Software? 359
Ubuntu Wants To Collect Data About Your System -- Starting With 18.04 LTS 207
Best Linux Distribution 215
The Most Popular Linux Desktop Programs 228
'Razer Doesn't Care About Linux' 377
Hackers Manage To Run Linux On a Nintendo Switch 119
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Could Come with Snap Apps Preinstalled 139
LKRG: A Loadable Linux Kernel Module for Runtime Integrity Checking 36
Microsoft Releases Skype As a Snap For Linux 166
The SCO Vs IBM Zombie Shambles On 127
Linus Finally Releases Linux 4.15 Kernel, Blames Intel For Delay 55
Are the BSDs Dying? Some Security Researchers Think So 196
Linux 4.15 Becomes Slowest Release Since 2011 68
LWN.Net Celebrates Its 20th Birthday 24
Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage' 507
Ask Slashdot: What's the Fastest Linux Distro for an Old Macbook 7,1? 248
Red Hat Reverts Spectre Patches to Address Boot Issues 78
Google Moves To Debian For In-house Linux Desktop 142
Wine 3.0 Released 153
Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux 140
City of Barcelona Dumps Windows For Linux and Open Source Software 255
The Linux Kernel Mailing List is Down 76
Can You Install Linux On a 1993 PC? 253
Lindows Resurrected! Freespire 3.0 and Linspire 7.0 Linux Distros Now Available 77
How a Researcher Hacked His Own Computer and Found One of the Worst CPU Bugs Ever Found 138
Intel Responds To Alleged Chip Flaw, Claims Effects Won't Significantly Impact Average Users 375
Linux Mint 19 Named 'Tara' 124
'Kernel Memory Leaking' Intel Processor Design Flaw Forces Linux, Windows Redesign 416
LinuxJournal, Which Ceased Publication Last Month Citing Poor Financial Condition, Secures Fresh Fund From Readers To Resume Operation 50
New Year's Resolutions For Linux Admins: Automate More, Learn New Languages 139