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Version 18.04 of Ubuntu Linux has been released, a version with extra long support. Twice a year a new version appears and the year and month of publication are the version number. Once every two years there will be a version that will not be updated for nine months but five years. Version 18.04 … Read more
The release of the new version of the Linux kernel, numbered 4.15, is delayed due to the ninth release candidate. Linus Torvalds assumes that this is the latter. A ninth version is not common. On the Linux kernel mailing list, Torvalds writes that he had planned to release the final version of the kernel on … Read more
There is some evidence that Intel processors have a bug that allows access to protected kernel memory. The solution would lie in a page table isolation patch, but at least in Linux this can lead to a significant performance drop in certain applications. The vulnerability would affect multiple generations of Intel processors and require Windows, … Read more