Category: Compliance

If you have been watching the news during the last 2-3 years, you might occasionally have heard about reproducible builds.   What are reproducible builds? The reproducible-builds project says “Reproducible builds” aim to provide a verifiable path from software source code to its compiled binary form. In its simplest form it means, that you can […]

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Open Source is about choice, and making choices. One of the choices we made when we introduced SUSE Manager in 2011 was to not re-invent the wheel. Instead, we based SUSE Manager on the Spacewalk project. And we haven’t looked back ever since. Spacewalk provided us with a solid and mature code base that we […]

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Today, the Google Project Zero team disclosed an additional speculative execution method to obtain data that would otherwise be protected by the CPU. Google, together with CPU, hardware and operating system vendors have worked over the past months to prepare mitigations for this vulnerability, known as Spectre v4. The vulnerability is similar to others in […]

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Replace EMC Centera hardware silos with future-proof  iTernity iCAS, SUSE Enterprise Storage and HPE industry standard hardware DELL/EMC Centera is dead! The End-of-life date in March 2018 poses a big challenge for storage administrators and IT managers. The software-defined archiving approach of iTernity iCAS and SUSE Enterprise Storage helps to overcome the limitations of legacy […]

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No matter whom you talk to from the Linux and Open Source community – ask them about FOSDEM, and you most likely will look into sparkling eyes and get answers just like “FOSDEM is probably the best community-driven FOSS event in Europe. It’s massive, chaotic and fun.” FOSDEM Ante Portas FOSDEM  stands for “Free and Open Source […]

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Yesterday the security community and a number of IT vendors announced the existence of several hardware security vulnerabilities that allow potential exploits across a range of hardware architectures and operating systems including but not limited to Linux. https://meltdownattack.com/ SUSE engineers have been collaborating with our partners and the Linux community on upstream Linux kernel patches. […]

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