Linux & Open Source News

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Perl Makes Jump from 5 to 7

The Perl project has announced the upcoming release of Perl 7. Version 6 skipped.

Ubuntu Is Putting Ads in Their MOTD?

A reddit thread that has received more than a thousand of votes condemns Canonical for putting ads in the motd

Linux Kernel Runtime Guard 0.8 Released

LKRG is a loadable kernel module that performs runtime integrity checking of the Linux kernel and detection of security vulnerability exploits against the kernel.

Purism Start Shipping Librem Mini

The Purism Librem Mini is a 5" x 5" x 1.5" desktop computer with an Intel Quad‑Core i7 processor, 4K video support and up to 64GB of RAM.

Oracle Linux 8.2 Released with UEK6

Oracle announced the release of brand new Oracle Linux 8.2 which is an enterprise-class server Linux distribution built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

Calculate Linux 20.6 Released

Calculate Linux 20.6 has dozens of performance optimizations, modern GNU/Linux technologies, and updated packages.