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The GNOME Desktop project, which develops one of the two main user interfaces for Linux, is once again trying to reinvent the wheel, this time to create a new window management system.

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 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.

Slackware, the second GNU/Linux distribution to be released to the public, is turning 30, with its founder Patrick Volkerding saying he was likely to release a beta of version 15.1 soon.

Security vendor Trend Micro's new Trend Vision One – Endpoint Security combines prevention, detection, and response for endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and data centres.

The third stage has been reached in camouflaging open source vendor Red Hat's new curbs on access to the source code for its enterprise Linux distribution.

German open source vendor SUSE says it will not be making any changes to its policies on source code access, emphasising "that the freedom to access, modify, and distribute software should remain open to all".

GUEST RESEARCH: WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity, today announced the findings of its latest Internet Security Report, detailing the top malware trends and network and endpoint security threats analysed by WatchGuard Threat Lab researchers in Q1 2023. Key findings from the data show phishers leveraging browser-based social engineering strategies, new malware with ties to nation states, high amounts of zero day malware, living-off-the-land attacks on the rise, and more. This edition of the report also features a new, dedicated section for the Threat Lab team's quarterly ransomware tracking and analysis.

Any time a company has to issue a "clarification" to an announcement it has made, it is generally intended to make what was an unpalatable change seem the opposite.

GUEST OPINION: The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered three vulnerabilities in RenderDoc.

Community Linux distribution openSUSE has released its stable version 15.5, also known as Leap, which is based on the SUSE enterprise distribution 15 service pack 5.

Open source vendor Red Hat has decided to drop the free office suite LibreOffice from its distributions — the commercial RHEL and the community Fedora offerings — as it is short of developer hours to maintain the suite, a developer says.

New management capabilities in Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux are designed provide a simplified RHEL management experience even in hybrid clouds.

German open-source firm SUSE claims its new adaptable Linux platform, the latest iteration of which is to be released on 31 March, is the future of enterprise Linux – an application-centric, secure and flexible platform designed to focus on workloads while abstracting from hardware and application runtime layers.

GUEST OPINION: As with all technology, new tools are iterations built on what came before, and classic network logging and metrics are no different.

WEBINAR INVITE: The highly anticipated new release 7.0 of Vinchin Backup & Recovery will be coming soon!

WEBINAR INVITE: The highly anticipated new release 7.0 of Vinchin Backup & Recovery will be coming soon!

COMPANY NEWS: BeyondTrust, the leader in intelligent identity and access security, today announced record recurring growth in 2022 and continued innovation through expansion of its identity security platform, acquisition of new customers, and delivery of exceptional customer and employee experiences.

LibreOffice 7.5 Community, the latest major release of the free office suite, is now available for Windows on Intel/AMD and ARM processors, macOS on Apple Silicon and Intel processors, and Linux.

Intelligent identity and access security specialist BeyondTrust has revealed enhancements to BeyondTrust Privilege Management for Unix and Linux and BeyondTrust Active Directory Bridge.