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After the recent changes in source code availability enforced by the IBM-owned Red Hat, enterprise Linux is likely to take a different path to that which it was following when the standard was being a downstream rebuild of RHEL, the chair of AlmaLinux OS Foundation, one of the distributions that sprang up after Red Hat discontinued CentOS, says.

Samba co-founder Jeremy Allison has likened the current move by Red Hat, to restrict access to the source code of its enterprise Linux distribution, to the way Sun Microsystems reacted to the threat from Linux.

The disquiet over Red Hat's recent move to make it extremely difficult for others to gain access to the source code of its enterprise Linux distribution — Red Hat Enterprise Linux or RHEL — doesn't appear to be dying down though more than a month has passed since the company said source code would, from now on, be available only to paying customers.

The release of version 2.0.0 by the OpenZFS project has some crowing as though some revolutionary new software, which will bring benefits to world+dog, has landed.

A vulnerability in Samba, the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix, can be exploited remotely to gain access to Linux machines that have port 445 exposed.

The open source Samba project has lost one of its senior contributors with the death of Lars Muller on 1 October.

A few days after he mused that there had been no reason for him to blow his stack recently, Linux creator Linus Torvalds has directed a blast at the Software Freedom Conservancy and its distinguished technologist Bradley Kuhn over the question of enforcing compliance of the GNU General Public Licence.

The Samba project, the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix, has released a client for ChromeOS.

Eleven years after he rocked the Linux community by withdrawing the non-commercial version of BitKeeper, his source code management system, Larry McVoy has finally been forced to open source the application.

The Samba team has released a fix for a vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute code remotely as the root user from an anonymous connection.

It is not unusual for the Samba project, an award-winning free software file, print and authentication server suite for Windows clients, to receive code contributions to add a new feature or to fix an existing bug.

The Samba project has decided to allow corporate contributions of code, according to a message posted to its mailing lists by senior developer Jeremy Allison.

For its developers, Samba 4 is the holy grail. When they make that release, they would be able to offer businesses, 80 per cent of whom use Active Directory for authentication, the freedom to choose a non-Windows server environment and yet enjoy all the benefits of Active Directory.

The decision of the Samba project to move its licensing from the GNU General Public Licence 2 to version 3 appears to have resulted in the exclusion of the software from Apple's Mac OSX operating system.