After Munich agreement, Hamburg moves to Linux
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I have in my hand a piece of paper which says 2020 is the year of Linux on the desktop

Hamburg has announced that it is going to follow Munich and start moving civil service software away from Microsoft and towards something more open saucy.

Linus is secure - it is its users who are not
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Most exploits are misconfigurations or poor administration

The rise in attacks on Linux in recent years is not due to its insecurity problems but more down to user error.

Windows 10 catches Linux cancer
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It can now read Linux files

Software King of the World, Microsoft, which once dubbed Linux a cancer on software, is planning to fully integrate Linux file access into the built-in file Explorer.

AMD sprucing up its Linux driver
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Advertising for new lead Linux Kernel Developer

AMD has plans to improve its Linux AMDGPU driver and is advertising for a new lead Linux kernel developer.

Linux is the world’s most vulnerable operating system
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World’s worse are Debian, Android, macOS and Ubuntu

The idea that Microsoft’s Windows is the world’s most buggy and vulnerable operating system is pants, and it is so-called cast iron operating systems like Linux and macOS which are the worst.

Windows 12 Lite ships as Linux in drag
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Microsoft is bound to take notice

A version of Linux which rips off Windows has shipped and we really expect Vole to take notice – even if it is keen to say it is all open sauce friendly these days.

South Korea to dump Windows
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2020 is the year of Linux on the desktop

South Korea's government is exploring moving most of its 3.3 million PCs from Windows to Linux.

Linux scheduler issue claims garbage
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Says Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds says that claims by C++ game developer Malte Skarupke that his spinlocks experiments had discovered the Linux kernel had a scheduler issue were garbage.

Google Now bans some Linux web browsers
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Nothing to do with how they handle adverts and tracking, honest

Google is now banning the popular Linux browsers named Konqueror, Falkon, and Qutebrowser from logging into Google services because they may not be secure.

Linux VPN connections can be hacked
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Too easy to p p pick up a penguin

Insecurity experts at Breakpointing Bad have found aa new vulnerability allowing potential attackers to hijack VPN connections on affected *NIX devices and inject arbitrary data payloads into IPv4 and IPv6 TCP streams.