January 31, 2022
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One of the great tech mysteries is “Who really is Bitcoin’s inventor, the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto?” Recently, some people thought Linus Torvalds, the developer behind both the world’s most popular operating system, Linux, and its most popular development tool, the Git distributed version … Continue reading
January 28, 2022
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When Microsoft acquired JavaScript Node package manager (npm) company npm, with its over 1.3 million packages and 75 billion downloads, I’d hoped that some of npm’s notoriously unstable releases would finally be fixed. I hoped in vain. For instance, the recent npm … Continue reading
January 28, 2022
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As Kubernetes users know, Rancher is a popular complete software stack for running and managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure. Now, since Linux and cloud-power SUSE acquired Rancher, it’s launched its first new program: Rancher Desktop 1.0 Rancher Desktop is an open source program that … Continue reading
January 26, 2022
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Once upon a time in the 2000s and 2010s, Patrick McHardy was the chair of Linux’s Netfilter core development team. Netfilter is a Linux kernel utility that handles various network functions, such as facilitating Network Address Translation (NAT) and Linux’s IPTables firewall. All was fine. … Continue reading
January 24, 2022
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Want a good-paying programming job? By ZipRecruiter‘s count, the average annual pay for an open-source developer in the United States is $123,411. That’s not bad. There’s also a lot of demand for Linux and open-source pros. The Linux Foundation and edX, the leading massive open online … Continue reading
January 21, 2022
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Most reported Linux “security” bugs actually aren’t Linux bugs. For example, security vendor CrowdStrike‘s report on the biggest Linux-based malware families was really about system administration security blunders with telnet, SSH, and Docker, not Linux at all. But, that doesn’t mean Linux doesn’t … Continue reading