This year's BSDCon is being held at the Monterey Hyatt, in Monterey Ca. The first tutorial was a two-day tutorial covering BSD System Security. For the most part the classes are intensive and there was a lot of ground to cover. . . .
More than 10 years on from its campaign topersuade users to dump Windows 7for a non-proprietary alternative, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) haskicked off a petition to urge Microsoft to open-sourcethe recently snuffed software.
With the regular milestone of Release Candidate (rc7), Linus Torvalds hasannouncedthe first stable release of the Linux kernel 5.5 for the general public.Apart from the last-minute network driver fixes, Linux 5.5 includes various improvements for security,the new and upcoming hardware platforms such as Raspberry Pi 4, Intel processors, and Chromebooks.
