Linux has a big hole
Dirty pipe “Most serious” Linux privilege-escalation bug
Linux has yet another high-severity vulnerability that makes it easy for untrusted users to execute code capable of carrying out a host of malicious actions, including installing backdoors, creating unauthorised user accounts, and modifying scripts or binaries used by privileged services or apps.
Torvalds moves Linux to C11
Old one out-of-date, but this one goes to 11
Linus Torvalds is about to shift Linux from a version of C which is so old it was written before the fall of the Soviet Union – C89.
Linux bugs fixed faster
Closed source is slower
Google's Project Zero team have released their latest time-to-fix data and it looks like no one stomps on bugs faster than a Linux developer.
Linux kernel will support Intel Hardware Feedback
Background tasks and light workloads can be run on the E-cores
The Linux 5.18 kernel is adding support this spring for the Intel Hardware Feedback Interface to make better decisions about where to place given work among available CPU cores/threads.
Linux malware rises
Up 35 per cent last year
The number of malware infections targeting Linux devices rose by 35 per cent in 2021, and it looks lie the writers want to recruit IoT devices for DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks.
2022 is not going to be the year of Linux on the desktop
You probably were not expecting this
It has been the time of year again when Linux fanboys emerge from their dust-filled server rooms to declare that 2022 might be the year that their favourite operating system will replace Windows on the desktop.
Linux can play 75 percent of the top games
2022 is the year of Linux on the desktop
After years of complaints that the reason people had to stick with Windows was there were no games for Linux, Steam has released figures which say that 75 percent of the top 1,000 games run on Linux now, and the figure is even higher, at 80 percent, for the top 100 games.
Schleswig-Holstein dumps Vole in favour of open source
LibreOffice replaces Microsoft Office
The north-German state of Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch to open-source software, reports Mike Saunders from LibreOffice.
System76's Pop!_OS Linux to create Rust based desktop
They are leaving Gnome after being a gnome for so many years
System76's Pop!_OS Linux distribution already has their own "COSMIC" desktop that is based on GNOME but apparently it has had enough and wants to move to a Rust-based desktop.
Linux runs better than Windows 11
2022 could be the year of Linux on the Desktop
With Windows 11 out as stable and the initial round of updates coming out, benchmarks are starting to compare the new OS with what is out there.