Open sources power instruction set

IBM has moved its OpenPower Foundation so that it is under the Linux Foundation, and while it was at it, announced it was open-sourcing several other essential parts of its PowerChips.

Less than 4GB and you are doomed

Desktop Linux is particularly brutal when it comes to running on low RAM systems.

… and yet it is still not the year of Linux on the desktop

Microsoft Linux kernel developer Sasha Levin has revealed that "the Linux usage on our cloud has surpassed Windows".

Comes with its own Linux kernel

Software King of the World Microsoft has just released a new Windows 10 Insider Preview build featuring the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 which allows you to run more Linux software on Windows and with better performance than Vole's previous attempts.

You probably were not expecting this

It seems the open source community is better at keeping old open-source Linux OpenGL drivers properly maintained.

Some year really will be the year of Linux on the desktop

While the concept of Linux being the primary operating system on the desktop is an industry joke, there is a belief that it might get there by default.

Severe hole in the Teepee

The Apache Software Foundation has patched a severe vulnerability in the Apache (httpd) web server project that could allow rogue server scripts to execute code with root privileges and take over the underlying server.

Court case drags on

For the last decade, VMware has been accused of illegally using Linux code in its VMware ESX bare-metal virtual machine hypervisor.

Above the cloud

Two Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers on the International Space Station have still not come back to Earth, three months after their intended return.

At the request of administrators

The Linux kernel will disable mitigations for the meltdown and spectre bugs.