For the most part, ordinary Linux users don’t know what curl is. Programmers and system administrators know the utility well, though. This shell command and its associated library, libcurl, is used to transfer data over every network protocol you’ve…Read More

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks may be one of the least sophisticated types of cyberattacks but they can do real damage. Now Google and other top cloud companies are reporting new records for the largest DDoS attacks ever. The … Continue reading →

On October 12, 2023, Canonical will be releasing Ubuntu 23.10. This new version of Ubuntu Linux is already looking good. One new security feature, however, hasn’t gotten much attention: Restricted unprivileged user namespaces, It should. This has the…Read More

I’m not getting any younger, but my tiny little business, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates, is still going strong after over 30 years, even though I’m well past retirement age. My retirement plan, as I like to tell people, is to fall … Continue reading →

Without open source, there is no AI. It’s that simple. But, those same licenses have been showing their age: The Gnu General Public License (GPL), Apache License, and Mozilla Public License don’t fit well with software-as-a-service or cloud services.…Read More

The OpenStack community unveiled Bobcat, its 28th version, on October 4, 2023. This new Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud release came with 10,476 changes and was authored by over 580 contributors. This milestone is integral to the Linux,…Read More