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By: Vincent Moutoussamy

March 20, 2019 10:40 am

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Announcing SLE 15 SP1 RC 1 and SES 6 Beta 11!

Release Candidate Phase SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 1 is entering the Release Candidate Phase since we are closer and closer to the official release date (so called First Customer Shipment) scheduled for mid-June 2019. SUSE Engineering Team has a special mindset regarding the Release Candidate phase, because we are targeting to have FCS […]

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By: Vincent Moutoussamy

February 6, 2019 10:07 am

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 1 Beta 3 is ready for testing!

  Here comes Beta 3 of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 1: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP (SLES for SAP), SUSE Linux Enterprise Just Enough Operating System (JeOS), SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED), SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability (SLEHA and SLEHA GEO), SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension […]

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By: Marcus Meissner

January 10, 2019 3:25 pm

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Stack clashing systemd aka “System Down”

One and a half year ago the security research company Qualys reported a new attack class against common operating systems called "Stack Clash". We documented this in our TID 7020973. The core security problem is that variable sized stack allocations could be used to overwrite heap memory as stack and heap grow towards each […]

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By: Vincent Moutoussamy

September 24, 2018 9:59 am

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 4 RC1 is out!

We are happy to announce Release Candidate 1 isos for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 4: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP (SLES for SAP), SUSE Linux Enterprise Just Enough Operating System (JeOS), SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED), SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability (SLEHA), SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension […]

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By: Brendan Bulmer

September 10, 2018 6:06 pm

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The SUSE Academic Program Surpasses 500 participants globally

The end of summer often marks the start of a new academic year and SUSE has been working hard to reach more students than ever this coming year. As growth for demand in open source skills continues, so has SUSE efforts to meet those needs. According to The Linux Foundation’s 2018 Open Source Jobs […]

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By: Vincent Moutoussamy

August 31, 2018 2:29 pm

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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 4 Beta 4 is out!

We are happy to announce Beta 4 isos for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 4: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), NEW SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP (SLES for SAP), SUSE Linux Enterprise Just Enough Operating System (JeOS), SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED), SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability (SLEHA), SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension […]

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By: Alexander Bergmann

June 27, 2018 1:31 pm

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Secure Boot Network Installation

1. Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) We have to start with the standard PXE setup that is used for decades for disk-less client bootstrapping. The client requests an IP address and gets it together with the information where to find a boot file that can be loaded via TFTP. In our case the network connection is […]

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By: Lawrence Kearney

June 14, 2018 2:37 am

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SLES, PAM, SSSD, and MFA Soup

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions are becoming the standard for many user facing IT services. Most visibly with web applications, corporate VPNs, self-service portals and online banking platforms to name but a few. Extending MFA to the realm of system administration to harden access to the Linux operating system itself is becoming an established best practice […]

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By: John Dolen

May 3, 2018 2:57 am

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SUSE Partners Provide Endpoint and Data Center Security

RSA Conference, a major information security event, wound down almost two weeks ago.  Hotel prices in San Francisco are back below stratosphere levels (at least for now), but the important work of protecting information continues.  At SUSE, security is a never ending process, and we are committed to delivering best effort security.  […]

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