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An alert developer appears to have prevented a backdoor — likely introduced into a compression utility by state-backed actors — from being distributed to production Linux systems. The malicious code appears to allow the bypassing of checks during SSH authentication.

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation has released AlmaLinux 9.3, it first release built entirely from upstream sources without any recourse to source code from Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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.

IBM-owned open source vendor Red Hat initially rejected a patch for a vulnerability in iperf3 which was submitted by a developer of RHEL clone AlmaLinux, only agreeing to merge it after a lot of jaw.

Samba co-founder Jeremy Allison has likened the current move by Red Hat, to restrict access to the source code of its enterprise Linux distribution, to the way Sun Microsystems reacted to the threat from Linux.

The chairman of the board at AlmaLinux, one of the distributions that sprang up after Red Hat discontinued CentOS, has admitted that it would not be possible to continue providing a 1:1 binary copy of RHEL.

Rocky Linux, a project set up by the founder of the CentOS project, Gregory Kurtzer, has outlined what it says are ways to legally obtain source code for Red Hat's enterprise Linux distribution, following that company's 21 June announcement about fresh curbs on access to the source.

German open source vendor SUSE says it will not be making any changes to its policies on source code access, emphasising "that the freedom to access, modify, and distribute software should remain open to all".

Any time a company has to issue a "clarification" to an announcement it has made, it is generally intended to make what was an unpalatable change seem the opposite.

ANALYSIS Open source vendor Red Hat appears to have decided to make it more difficult for anyone to gain access to the source code for RHEL, its enterprise Linux distribution, from now on.

Open source vendor Red Hat has decided to drop the free office suite LibreOffice from its distributions — the commercial RHEL and the community Fedora offerings — as it is short of developer hours to maintain the suite, a developer says.

New management capabilities in Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux are designed provide a simplified RHEL management experience even in hybrid clouds.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.1 has now hit general availability, adding and refining capabilities for a wide range of enterprise IT needs, from helping to streamline complex infrastructure environments to improving the security stance of containerised applications.

Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, forming the foundation of the company’s new Red Hat Edge Initiative to power the next wave of edge computing.

Red Hat announced today its plans to deliver a predictable, functional, safe, certified, evolving Linux operating system for the automotive industry.

Less than a year and a half after it was bought by IBM, the biggest open source company Red Hat has killed off CentOS, once an independent project but since January 2014 a part of Red Hat itself.

Google has announced the first product in its Confidential Computing portfolio, along with a new configuration tool for government workloads.

HPE's recently appointed general manager, compute-hybrid IT, South Pacific Andrew Foot speaks exclusively to iTWire.