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Companies that are using CentOS 8 have three options open to them as they contemplate their next move in view of the fact that only a few months of support remain for this Linux distribution.

The community Linux distribution openSUSE has released a beta of its stable version 15, known as Leap, bringing it on par with the commercial SUSE Linux Enterprise version 15 Service Pack 3 as far as packages are concerned.

Users of the Fedora Linux community distribution would do well to switch over to an alternative like Debian GNU/Linux or openSUSE before Red Hat leaves them in the lurch too.

Microsoft has released a version of its Edge browser, based on Google's Chromium open-source browser, for Linux, an act that nobody would have considered possible some years ago.

IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat for US$34 billion is a win-win for both companies, according to analyst firm GlobalData, and will give IBM a solid bridge between its existing on-premise hardware and its global cloud platform.

Community Linux distribution openSUSE Leap has reached the beta phase for builds of its development version 15 and testers have been invited to try it out.

The Germany-based SUSE Linux marked a milestone over the last few days: on Friday, 2 September, the company turned 25, a remarkable achievement in an industry where the remains of software companies litter the landscape around the world.

The openSUSE community GNU/Linux project has released version 42.3 of its distribution which is known as Leap, aligning it more closely with SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 12 Service Pack 3, the distribution for businesses.

The community GNU/Linux distribution openSUSE expects to release version 42.3 of its Leap development stream, a rolling distribution that claims to offer both the latest software and also stability.

For the second time this year, the website of the community GNU/Linux distribution openSUSE was hit by a security breach and forced to take some of its services offline.

An unpatched WordPress vulnerability provided the entry point for defacement of the openSUSE news website last week, the chairman of the openSUSE project Richard Brown says.

One of the websites belonging to the openSUSE project, a SUSE Linux-supported organisation that develops a community Linux distribution, was defaced earlier this week.

The community Linux distribution openSUSE has announced that it has released a 64-bit image for its stable branch, Leap, that runs on the Raspberry Pi 3.

Missouri-based technology firm MJ Technology has begun a crowd-funding campaign on Indiegogo to raise US$100,000 to build the first tablets that run GNU/Linux.

openSUSE, the community Linux distribution of the SUSE Linux company, has about 600,000 users judging by the number who access repositories each month for downloads, according to Richard Brown, the chairman of the project.

Should Linux distributions continue to issue 32-bit images any longer or phase them out over a year or two? This question was resurrected recently by Ubuntu developer Dimitri John Ledkov, with a cutoff date of October 2018 proposed.

The number of users of openSUSE, the community GNU/Linux distribution supported by the Germany SUSE Linux company, has grown, with an average of 400,000 DVD images being downloaded each month.

openSUSE, the community distribution launched by the German SUSE Linux company, will have a middle-of-the-road branch next month.

Linux companies Red Hat, SUSE and Canonical will benefit from the decision by Microsoft to suggest that OEMs not provide a means of turning off secure boot on PCs running Windows 10.

A potentially devastating flaw in in OpenSSL, which is used to protect and secure millions of websites, has been uncovered by security researchers.