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VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files

Versions installed via Snap don't delete files when users empty system trash Linux users who installed Microsoft's Visual Studio Code as a Snap package may want to check to see whether files they sent ...
Network World

Working with exit codes on the Linux command line

Knowing how to work with and display exit codes on the Linux command line or in scripts can help make errors more obvious. Exit codes on the Linux command line are numeric values that provide feedback ...
The Register on MSN

Linus Torvalds and friends tell The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session

Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible If you know anything ...
ZDNet

Oracle takes on Red Hat in Linux code fight

I'd been waiting for Oracle to throw its hat into the ring for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Linux source-code fight. I knew it was only a matter of time. On July 10, Oracle's Edward Screven, ...
The Next Platform

Linux Is The Next Platform, But Who Pays To Maintain It?

Red Hat has once again dropped another huge boulder into the normally serene – or at least relatively calm – open source waters. Back in December 2020 it killed off the CentOS distribution that lives ...
Dark Reading

StackRot Linux Kernel Bug Has Exploit Code on the Way

Exploit code will soon become available for a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel that a security researcher discovered and reported to Linux administrators in mid-June. The bug, which the ...
ZDNet

Rust in Linux: Where we are and where we're going next

At the Linux Plumbers Conference in Richmond, Virginia, Linux and Rust developer Miguel Ojeda gave the Linux kernel developers an update on the state of Rust in the Linux kernel. In brief, Rust Linux ...
Bleeping Computer

New Mallox ransomware Linux variant based on leaked Kryptina code

An affiliate of the Mallox ransomware operation, also known as TargetCompany, was spotted using a slightly modified version of the Kryptina ransomware to attack Linux systems. This version, according ...
Ars Technica

The Linux Kernel Adopts A Code of Conduct and Linus Torvalds taking a temporary leave

reviously the Linux kernel had a "Code of Conflict" that some might feel is rather harsh. But now it's been replaced by a Code of Conduct that is derived from the Contributor Covenant that has been ...
Bleeping Computer

GNOME Linux systems exposed to RCE attacks via file downloads

A memory corruption vulnerability in the open-source libcue library can let attackers execute arbitrary code on Linux systems running the GNOME desktop environment. libcue, a library designed for ...
GizChina

Linux: The Perfect Platform for Coders - Here's Why

Thanks to the GNU General Public License, the complete source codes of the Linux kernel and Linux distributions are open-source and completely transparent. This means you can customize the user ...