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With Red Hat ending support for CentOS Linux 8 and changing the popular distro into a rolling release, CloudLinux has announced that it's making a bigger and better stable point CentOS: Lenix.
The beta version of Linux Mint 20.1 “Ulyssa” has finally been released with a selection of valuable new features including the Linux kernel 5.4, Cinnamon 4.8, MATE 1.24 and the Xfce 4.14 desktop. Learn the details.
Much to the dismay of CentOS users, Red Hat recently announced that CentOS Linux 8 will no longer be supported and will be discontinued at the end of 2021. CentOS 8 will be replaced by the rolling version, CentOS Stream, as the downstream branch of RHEL, which will continue to make the upstream version more stable and secure.
Offensive Security might best known as the company behind Kali Linux, the popular (and free) open-source pen testing platform, but its contribution to the information security industry is definitely not limited to it. According to Offensive Security CEO Ning Wang, "The company’s main goal, according to her, is to train millions of professionals to embrace the hacker mindset and the essential ethical hacking skills needed to break into and to succeed within the cybersecurity industry."
The free ride is over for CentOS users. Red Hat has announced that it is shifting its focus to CentOS Stream - the upstream branch of RHEL, and support for CentOS Linux 8 will end in 2021. According to Red Hat, "CentOS Stream will be getting fixes and features ahead of RHEL. Generally speaking, we expect CentOS Stream to have fewer bugs and more runtime features than RHEL until those packages make it into the RHEL release."
CentOS is becoming a rolling Linux distribution - and many users aren't happy about it. This change leaves businesses depending on CentOS for a stable server or embedded operating system in the lurch.
The KDE team has announced the 4th installment of its Plasma desktop environment – KDE Plasma 5.20.4 - which is currently in the bugfix release mode. Here is what’s fixed and what's new.
