Immutable Linux gets a native safe mode: GNOME OS now lets the bootloader skip broken systemd-sysext driver extensions at ...

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Twenty-five years ago, Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, called “Linux a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” At Build 2026 in June, the same company ...

DirtyClone is a new Linux kernel privilege escalation in the DirtyFrag family. JFrog Security Research published a working exploit walkthrough for the flaw on June 25, the first public demonstration ...

Alpine Linux 3.24 is out, bringing a new desktop environment that should make for a very high-performance combination. Version 3.24.1 followed just four days later to fix some OpenSSL security issues.

A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed 'CIFSwitch' in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel's key request ...

Dealing with text streams is a fundamental skill for the Linux power user. You can sort, merge, and search text files easily from the command line. What if you could do the same thing with video? Well ...

Deepin Linux has been suspect for some time. SUSE and Fedora have dropped all Deepin packages. The only way forward for Deepin is a strict code review. The first time I tested Deepin Desktop ...

“Dirty Frag” marks the third privilege escalation vulnerability (or rather, combination of vulnerabilities) discovered within two weeks, allowing attackers to escalate their privileges in most Linux ...

Qualys researchers expose ‘CrackArmor’ flaws that allow unprivileged users to escalate privileges to root, break container isolation, and crash systems, with no CVE identifiers yet assigned. Security ...

PCWorld’s guide helps users navigate the overwhelming choice of approximately 250 Linux distributions by focusing on five main strains: Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, Arch, Slackware, and Gentoo.