Google and The Linux Foundation have reached an agreement to improve Linux security. The search engine will allocate funds to finance the work of two kernel developers to focus on tasks aimed at shielding the system.
As every year at this time, the MuyLinux publication has revealed the results of its annual survey about the Linux distributions, desktop environments and browsers preferred by its user community. Ubuntu has once again been crowned the most popular distro, followed by far by Linux Mint and Debian, which also maintain their positions.
After Red Hat announced that its free CentOS Linux distribution will be discontinued in late 2021, several distros are positioning themselves as interesting alternatives for enterprise environments in production. One of them is Project Lenix.
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of a new version of Linux. The kernel version 5.10 is LTS (Long Term Support), which means that it will be maintained for at least five years. Among all the changes introduced in this new release, there are a lot of performance improvements. Regarding processors, performance support for AMD Zen 3 is included with other Linux performance additions and mremap performance is much more snappy on ARM64 hardware.
A new version of Ubuntu has been recently born. It arrives with an ambitious mission: to become the alternative to the Chrome OS operating system. And what added values does it offer to achieve it? An Open Source base and a commitment to respect the privacy of users as much as possible.
