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Microsoft has unveiled a preview of a system using which it intends to lock down the Domain Name System, the system that translates IP addresses to human-readable domains, on Windows.

In some ways, Andreas Tille is an unusual person to take over as leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project. Unusual because of his age, unusual because of the fact that he acknowledged the negatives about the position.

German developer Andreas Tille has been elected as the leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project for the year 2024-25.

Enterprises which have been running CentOS 7 will have to look around for alternatives before the end of the Australian financial year as the distribution reaches its end-of-life on 30 June.

The original maintainer of the xz Utils package, which was backdoored and almost distributed to production Linux systems, is yet to make any public comment about the incident, saying he first needs to understand the situation thoroughly.

The Debian GNU/Linux project has begun voting for a leader to head the project for 2024-25. Voting began on 6 April and is expected to wind up on 19 April.

An alert developer appears to have prevented a backdoor — likely introduced into a compression utility by state-backed actors — from being distributed to production Linux systems. The malicious code appears to allow the bypassing of checks during SSH authentication.

Two Melbourne open source developers have been working for a while on a project to make mobile phones useful as general purpose computing devices and in the broadest way possible.

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.

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.

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".

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.

The community Linux distribution, Debian, has released a new stable version over the weekend, with version 12, otherwise known as Bookworm, emerging after a year and nine months of development.

The Debian GNU/Linux Project is set to start voting on a general resolution which outlines a way to solve the issues it faces in providing proprietary firmware on its install media.

The global IP authority has granted ownership of the "debian.community" domain name to the Debian GNU/Linux Project and decided that it should be transferred to the community Linux distribution.

Microsoft has issued a long write-up about flaws that could lead to escalation of privilege on Linux systems, which it has collectively called Nimbuspwn, but failed to mention that none of these flaws can be exploited remotely.

South African developer Jonathan Carter has been elected as the leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project for a third year, defeating two others in the poll which concluded on 16 April.

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.

A number of sites with Australian domain names did not resolve correctly on Tuesday afternoon, giving rise to speculation that a move by auDA, the domain administrator, to offer a new .au domain was the cause.

Three developers have put their hands up to contest for the post of leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project, an annual exercise for the community GNU/Linux distribution.