Linux Stories for 2019

CNBC Reports Open Source Software Has Essentially 'Taken Over the World' 103
FSF-Approved Hyperbola GNU/Linux Forking OpenBSD, Citing 'User Freedom' Concerns 135
Debian Project Votes 'Systemd But We Support Exploring Alternatives' 203
Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 20 Now Available For Download 39
'My Business Card Runs Linux' 65
Many Security-Critical Military Systems Are Now Using Linux 78
Microsoft Teams is the First Office App For Linux 68
WireGuard VPN Is On Its Way To Linux 48
Debian Begins Vote On Supporting Non-Systemd Init Options 225
Linux Users Can Now Use Disney+ After DRM Fix 26
New Linux Vulnerability Lets Attackers Hijack VPN Connections 43
elementary OS 5.1 'Hera' Linux Distro is Here 42
Kali Linux Adds 'Undercover' Mode to Impersonate Windows 10 44
Rust-Based Redox OS Is Nearly Self-Hosting After Four Years 62
Ask Slashdot: Is Your Company Using Linux Desktops? 198
The File /var/lib/dbus/machine-id Matters For Your Privacy (and Devuan Fixed It) 147
Linux 5.4 Released 35
Zorin OS 15 Lite Linux Distro Can Rejuvenate Your Aging Windows PC 69
NextCloud Linux Servers Targetted by NextCry Ransomware 28
New Linux/Windows Malware Allows Arbitrary Execution of Shell Commands 80
System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops Beginning January 2020 24
Google Wants Android To Use Regular Linux Kernel 87
The World's Fastest Supercomputers Hit Higher Speeds Than Ever With Linux 124
Debian Project Drafts General Resolution on Init-System Diversity 212
Windows and Linux Get Options To Disable Intel TSX To Prevent Zombieload v2 Attacks 67
Mozilla, Intel, and More Form the Bytecode Alliance To Take WebAssembly Beyond Browsers 91
Reactions To the News That Microsoft's Edge Browser Is Coming to Linux 194
'Microsoft Defender ATP' Antivirus is Coming to Linux 100
Chrome OS 78 Rolling Out With Picture-In-Picture Support For YouTube, Split Browser/Device Settings, More 15
Linus Torvalds: 'I'm Not a Programmer Anymore' 65
Does Linux Have a Marketing Problem? 263
Fedora 31 Released 68
Top Linux Developer On Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're Not Going Away.' 87
Microsoft To Deliver Azure Sphere, a Linux-based Chip and Cloud Security Service, in February 2020 29
An Interview With Former Purism CTO Zlatan Todoric Hints At Chaos At Purism 8
Disney+ Does Not Work On Linux Devices 80
Project Trident Ditches BSD For Linux 97
Samsung Won't Support Linux on DeX Once Android 10 Arrives 39
Forbes Raves Upcoming Linux Desktop Will 'Embarass' Windows 10 and macOS 261
Unpatched Linux Bug May Open Devices To Serious Attacks Over Wi-Fi 21
Canonical Releases Ubuntu Linux 19.10 Eoan Ermine with GNOME 3.34, Light Theme, and Raspberry Pi 4 Support 50
Interview With Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller On 15 Years of Fedora 48
Flaw In Sudo Enables Non-Privileged Users To Run Commands As Root 139
Red Hat CFO 'Dismissed' From Company, Forfeits $4M Retention Award 89
System76 Will Begin Shipping 2 Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open Source Firmware 29
Fedora Drops 32-Bit Linux 28
Linus Torvalds Isn't Worried About Microsoft Taking Over Linux 141
Microsoft Might Bring Its Edge Browser To Linux 93
Attackers Exploit New 0-day Vulnerability Giving Full Control of Android Phones 26
Google Finds Hundreds Of Data-Race Conditions In The Linux Kernel 57
Linus Torvalds Approves New Kernel 'Lockdown' Feature 86
Purism's Librem 5 Phone Starts Shipping. It Can Run Linux Desktop Apps 46
As 'CentOS Stream' Brings Rolling Releases, Some RHEL Development Moves Into CentOS Project 15
Ubuntu Linux 19.10 'Eoan Ermine' Beta Available For Download 41
The /e/ Google-Free, Pro-Privacy Android Clone Is Now Available 43
Debian May Need To Re-Evaluate Its Interest In 'Init System Diversity' 135
Systemd-homed: Systemd Now Working To Improve Home Directory Handling 238
Fedora Linux 31 Beta is Here 19
CentOS 8 To Be Released Next Week 25
Linux 5.3 Released 43
Linux Foundation Survey Proves Open-Source Offices Work Better 35
Huawei Starts Selling Laptops With Linux Preinstalled 93
Arch Linux-based Manjaro 18.1.0 'Juhraya' Now Available With GNOME, KDE, or Xfce 17
Thousands of Servers Infected With New Lilocked (Lilu) Ransomware 71
Manjaro Linux Tries Forming A Company To Fund Full-Time Development 26
Purism Finally Starts Shipping Its Privacy-Focused 'Librem 5' Smartphone 46
Greg Kroah-Hartman Reveals His New Favorite Linux Distro 97
Should the Linux Kernel Accept Drivers Written In Rust? 169
Microsoft Readies exFAT Patents For Linux and Open Source 119
Celebrating the 28th Anniversary of the Linux Kernel 60
Intel, Google, Microsoft, and Others Launch Confidential Computing Consortium for Data Security 44
Slackware, the Longest Active Linux Distro, Finally Has a Patreon Page 49
Slashdot Asks: Do You (Ever) Shut Down Your Computer? 304
Can Swap Space Solve System Performance Issues? 201
Red Hat Joins the RISC-V Foundation 49
Linux Journal Ceases Publication 134
Final Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Version Released 69
Linux Performs Poorly In Low RAM / Memory Pressure Situations On The Desktop 569
Why Canonical Views the Snap Ecosystem as a Compelling Distribution-Agnostic Solution 93
GNOME and KDE Join Forces To Co-Host Linux App Summit 64
Ubuntu-Based Linux Mint 19.2 'Tina' is Here with Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce 96
The VR Linux Desktop Is On Its Way 79
Linus Torvalds Prepares To Wave Goodbye To Linux Floppy Drives 269
Chrome 76 Arrives With Flash Blocked By Default 87
VLC Developer Debunks Reports of 'Critical Security Issue' In Open Source Media Player 80
SUSE Names Melissa Di Donato New CEO 87
Dropbox Brings Back Support For ZFS, XFS, Btrfs And eCryptFS On Linux 69
What's New in Linux 5.2? 68
What Does Ubuntu's Post-Unity Future Look Like? 121
Linode Democratizes Cloud GPUs: Brings Powerful Nvidia GPUs To Its Linux Cloud 28
Skype Snap App Remains Hopelessly Outdated 55
IBM Closes Its $34 Billion Acquisition of Red Hat 95
After 25 Months, Debian 10 'buster' Released 158
Mageia 7 Linux Distro Released 92
Linux Usage on Azure Has Surpassed Windows, Microsoft Developer Reveals 83
Linus Torvalds Sees Lots of Hardware Headaches Ahead 205
Tech Press Rushes To Cover New Linus Torvalds Mailing List Outburst 381
Microsoft Seeks To Join the Official Linux-Distros Mailing List 113
Ubuntu Reverses Decision, Says It Will Continue To Support 32-bit Packages 94
How OIN's Linux-Based Patent Non-Aggression Community Drove Open Source Growth 25
Wine Developers Concerned With Ubuntu Dropping 32-bit Support With Ubuntu 19.10 209
Linux PCs, Servers, Gadgets Can Be Crashed by 'Ping of Death' Network Packets 132
KDE Plasma 5.16 Released 49
Vim and Neo Editors Vulnerable To High-Severity Bug 76
System76's Supercharged Linux-powered Gazelle Laptop is Finally Available 160
Windows 10's Linux Kernel Is Now Available 201
Ubuntu MATE 19.10 Is Ditching VLC for GNOME MPV 186
Ask Slashdot: Is Dockerization a Fad? 252
Russian Military Moves Closer To Replacing Windows With Astra Linux 95
Dell Begins Pre-Installing Linux On Range of Precision Laptops 139
Advanced Linux Backdoor Found In the Wild Escaped AV Detection 50
Systemd Now Has More Than 1.2 Million Lines of Code 249
A Group of Independent Linux App Developers Has Asked Wider GNOME Community To 'Stop Theming' Its Apps 179
Antergos Linux Has Been Discontinued 87
Linux Distros Without Systemd (2019) 245
Severe Linux Kernel Flaw Found In RDS 90
South Korean Government Planning Linux Migration as Windows 7 Support Ends 144
So Long Dual-Booting Windows on a Chromebook: Project Campfire is deprecated 51
Why Linux On Desktop 'Failed': A Discussion With Mark Shuttleworth 584
Is It Finally the Year of 'Linux on the Desktop' ? 406
IBM, Microsoft, and Red Hat CEOs Shared a Keynote at 15th Annual Red Hat Summit 12
Red Hat Changes Logo After Customers Call It 'Sinister', 'Secretive' 180
All Chromebooks Will Also Be Linux Laptops Going Forward 135
Linux 5.1 Released 69
Blender Developers Find Old Linux Drivers Are Better Maintained Than Windows 151
Mark Shuttleworth Sees Increased Demand For Enterprise Ubuntu Linux Desktop 158
Fedora 30 Linux Distro Is Here 128
The Mysterious History of the MIT License 40
Scientific Linux Distro is Being Discontinued; The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and CERN Will Move To CentOS 94
Red Hat Takes Over Maintenance of OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 From Oracle 55
Linux 5.2 Will Introduce The Fieldbus Subsystem 59
Ubuntu 19.04 'Disco Dingo' Released 91
Is The Linux Desktop In Trouble? 467
Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux? 966
Microsoft and Canonical Launch Visual Studio Code Snap For Linux 61
'SPURV' Project Brings Windowed Android Apps To Desktop Linux 52
Linus Torvalds on Social Media: 'It's a Disease. It Seems To Encourage Bad Behavior.' 305
Linux Mint 19.2 'Tina' is On the Way, But the Developers Seem Defeated and Depressed 269
SUSE Will Soon Be the Largest Independent Linux Company 57
Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo Beta Now Available With Linux Kernel 5.0 and GNOME 3.32 73
How Debian Almost Failed to Elect a Project Leader 86
Chrome 73 Arrives With Support For Hardware Media Keys, PWAs and Dark Mode On Mac 25
Node.js and JS Foundations Are Merging To Form OpenJS 38
Debian Package Maintainer Steps Down, Complaining About 'Old Infrastructure' 176
VMware Touts Dismissal of Linux GPL Lawsuit 68
Linux 5.1 Continues The Years-Long Effort Preparing For Year 2038 118
Linux 5.0 Released 107
Linux Users Are Unable To Manage Their Apple ID on Applecom 101
Linux Foundation Launches ELISA, an Open Source Project For Building Safety-Critical Systems 36
A Psion Palmtop Successor Has Arrived and It Runs Android and Linux 82
Linux Subsystem Files To Become Accessible via Windows File Explorer 123
KDE Plasma 5.15 Released 44
Developer Releases Windows 95 OS as an App For Windows 10, macOS and Linux 120
Should All Government IT Systems Be Using Open Source Software? 206
Tesla Hacker Launches Open-Source Project 'FreedomEV' To Run On Rooted Teslas, Bring New Wi-Fi Hotspot and Anti-Tracking Features 118
Linux Kernel Gets Another Option To Disable Spectre Mitigations 50
Do Debian APT and PHP Pear Patches Highlight Vulnerability In Package Management Infrastructure? 48
Wine 4.0 Released With Vulkan Support, Initial Direct3D 12 and Better HiDPI 73
Red Hat Rejects MongoDB's 'Discriminatory' Server Side Public License 106
Pixelbook and 'Nami' Chromebooks the First To Get Linux GPU Acceleration in Project Crostini 23
GNOME Internet Radio Locator 1.6.0 Released 35
Linux systemd Affected by Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, No Patches Yet 306
Linux For Cars: Tesla Isn't The Only Automaker Running Linux Under the Hood 75
Hyundai Joins the Linux Foundation To Embrace AGL's Open Source Connected Car Tech 38