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In an era of automated updates and "easy" installers, Slackware 15.0 is a jarring reminder of what Linux used to be.

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As attacks on the operating system grow more serious, the company is teasing a plan to bring “verifiable integrity” to Linux.

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SALT LAKE CITY — A University of Utah research team's rare find in a storage closet is being called a huge, historically significant discovery after experts at the Computer History Museum verified its ...