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• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI becomes a preferred platform for AI deployments on Dell PowerEdge servers
• Dell PowerEdge servers to be the first servers validated for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI to help customers more seamlessly develop, test and run large language models (LLMs) to power enterprise applications

The container orchestration system Kubernetes hit a major milestone on 6 June 2024, enjoying its 10th anniversary. That's 10 years of changing the face of modern software.

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation has announced the general availability of AlmaLinux 8.10, a community-owned open-source alternative to CentOS.

Security firm Tenable says its Cloud Security Research Team recently discovered that the Kinsing malware, which is known to target Linux-based cloud infrastructure, is exploiting Apache Tomcat servers using what it claims are "new advanced stealth techniques".

A compromise of the kernel.org servers that host Linux kernel development lasted from 2009 well into 2011, with a rootkit known as Phalanx being used to effect entry, the Slovakian security firm ESET says in a detailed report published on Tuesday.

The Debian GNU/Linux project, which produces a free Linux distribution, does not appear to be interested in taking a position on allowing contributions generated through AI.

Microsoft has unveiled a preview of a system using which it intends to lock down the Domain Name System, the system that translates IP addresses to human-readable domains, on Windows.

It's not often that you find someone writing about open source software and not bothering to make mention of the licences being used. But that's precisely what Albert Zhang of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a lobby group for big tech and foreign agencies, has done.

Enterprises which have been running CentOS 7 will have to look around for alternatives before the end of the Australian financial year as the distribution reaches its end-of-life on 30 June.

The original maintainer of the xz Utils package, which was backdoored and almost distributed to production Linux systems, is yet to make any public comment about the incident, saying he first needs to understand the situation thoroughly.

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move 30,000 local government PCs from Windows and Office to Linux and LibreOffice, according to a blog post from the Document Foundation, the organisation that oversees the development of LibreOffice.

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Norwegian firm Vivaldi, which produces a browser of the same name, has released feature-packed end-of-year versions for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Two Melbourne open source developers have been working for a while on a project to make mobile phones useful as general purpose computing devices and in the broadest way possible.

German open source vendor SUSE has announced that its majority shareholder Marcel intends to take the company private by delisting it from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange through a merger into an unlisted Luxembourg entity.

As the Linux kernel gets set to mark 32 years since its public announcement, a senior developer from German open source firm SUSE has reminded the world at large that it is the de-facto standard for running business-critical workloads.

Red Hat has given an indication of how desperate it is to spread its views, about the latest act of making the source of its RHEL distribution available only to paying customers, that it is paying to have its executives interviewed.

The GNOME Desktop project, which develops one of the two main user interfaces for Linux, is once again trying to reinvent the wheel, this time to create a new window management system.

Cloud security firm Wiz has found two privilege escalation issues in a filesystem used by Ubuntu Linux, with affected versions being widely used in the cloud.