Linux: the story of a kernel old 25 years
Linux is clearly the most successful project in the open source history. This year, the world’s most known kernel turns 25, marking the quarter of century for this incredible project.
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Serious TCP bug in Linux Kernel allows traffic hijacking
A recent research has exposed a three-years-old bug in the Linux Kernel. The bug, starting from version 3.6 of the Linux Kernel, allows TCP traffic hijacking without the need of being in the middle of the...
What is a Virtual Machine?
One of the biggest revolutions in the IT industry was Virtual Machines. The capability of using a machine to host different operating systems (and consequently parallelize workloads) opened a whole new world. But what is a...
LXC: Getting started with Linux Containers
If you keep up date, you probably know a great revolution is going on in the whole IT industry: containers. While Docker gets much of the attention, it isn’t the only player in the field. This...
Ubuntu: how to remove older kernels automatically
Today, for the first time I encountered a strange behaviour on a machine with Ubuntu 15.10 . The problem itself was quite strange and rendered the machine unusable with default boot settings.
Linux 4.3 changes
Linux 4.3 might not be as exciting as the 4.2 release, however it packs many changes that will ease the life of new hardware.
Linux 4.2 will enable you to update your firmware
After the jump from 3.19 to 4.0 this year, after the not-so-exciting 4.1 version that introduced EXT4 encryption thanks to Google, the penguin is approaching version 4.2. With that said, this release might be closer than...
Linux 4.0 is nigh! Or not?
Linus Torvalds, father of Linux Kernel and benevolent dictator for life of its son, is pondering the new release number for Linux. Will it be 3.20 or 4.0?
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