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It's not often that you find someone writing about open source software and not bothering to make mention of the licences being used. But that's precisely what Albert Zhang of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a lobby group for big tech and foreign agencies, has done.

The Debian GNU/Linux project has completed 30 years of producing a free, community distribution which is arguably the best and one that has served as the base for several other efforts.

Cloud security firm Wiz has found two privilege escalation issues in a filesystem used by Ubuntu Linux, with affected versions being widely used in the cloud.

The head of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, claims it recorded revenue of US$175 million (A$237.7 million) in 2021 and is likely to undertake an IPO in 2023.

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.

Two of the three candidates who contested last year's election for the post of Debian project leader are set to fight it out again this year.

The outcome of a general resolution proposed by the Debian GNU/Linux project, to decide how to react to the return of Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman to the board, will be known on 17 April, with voting now underway.

Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud has teamed up with Canonical, the firm behind Ubuntu, and online office productivity suite provider Collabora to offer a content creation solution on the ARM platform.

The open-source OpenSSL project has released an updated version of its software, 1.1.1k, to fix two vulnerabilities, the severity of both of which has been described as "high".

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.

The social media site Twitter has once again shown it has somewhat twisted priorities by taking down the account of Swiss IT consultant and developer Tillie Kottmann who exposed consultancy firm Deloitte's lack of technical nous.

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.

Google has announced the first product in its Confidential Computing portfolio, along with a new configuration tool for government workloads.

When it comes down to selecting a smartphone, there are but two choices these days: an iPhone or an Android phone.

Two new variants of the processor vulnerability known as Spectre, that was announced in January, have been announced by Google and Microsoft.

Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, has disabled downloads of its latest version, 17.10, released in October, due to reports of it corrupting the BIOS on some laptops, mainly Lenovo models.

WikiLeaks has released CIA documents detailing implants that can be used to steal traffic from SSH sessions on both Windows and Linux systems, in the latest dump from its Vault 7 stash.

A flaw in systemd, the init system used on many Linux systems, can be exploited using a malicious DNS query to either crash a system or to run code remotely.

Security updates for the Ubuntu phone will end in June, and the app store that caters to the users of this device will shut its doors by the end of the year.

The demise of the Ubuntu phone will not affect hundreds of millions, or even a much smaller multiple of that number.