A major vulnerability in CoreOS Linux Alpha has been patched, with the issue limited to versions 104x.0.0 of the distribution.

In the blog post Major Remote SSH Security Issue in CoreOS Linux Alpha, Subset of Users Affected the CoreOS Security Team described the issue saying:

The Solus developers are having the time of their lives these days as part of a new, online event called Solus Hackfest 1.2, where the operating system's developers are trying to implement new features to the upcoming Solus 1.2 release.

• Apache Foundation Founder Named Hyperledger Executive Director

  There's a new man in charge of the Hyperledger Project, a group of more that 30 companies working together to build an open standard for distributed ledgers across industries.

• Hyperledger Project Announces Addition of Eight New Members

• The Hyperledger Project Welcomes 8 New Members

• Apache Wizard Brian Behlendorf to Head Hyperledger Project

• Founding Member of the Apache Software Foundation Joins The Hyperledger Project

• Internet Heavyweight Joins Open-Source Blockchain Consortium

• More On Red Hat Launching Blockchain Open Source Initiative

  In April, Red Hat announced the OpenShift initiative to aid financial services industry in building hosted blockchain applications. Red Hat would manage container application deployment with OpenShift Dedicated support for financial institutions interested in experimenting with the blockchain.

• Red Hat’s OpenShift Commons Crosses 200 Members in More Than 40 Countries

  Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that OpenShift Commons has surpassed 200 members across more than 40 countries and key industries, including private and public cloud service providers and customers and partners in the banking and finance, higher education, and public sector. OpenShift Commons is an open source community spanning multiple projects where customers, partners, and contributors collaborate and share best practices about adopting container platforms at scale. The OpenShift Commons community is designed to bridge multiple upstream projects that are incorporated into OpenShift Origin including Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Project Atomic and more.

• Founder of the Apache Software Foundation Joins Linux Foundation to Lead Hyperledger Project

Most articles trumpeting Indus' epic feat of becoming the second most popular OS in India after Android either don't understand operating systems or deliberately obfuscate the fact that it is nothing but an optimized Android OS.

That said, this homegrown company, originally known as Firstouch, has achieved something remarkable by tweaking Android in such a manner as to grab a 5.6 percent market share in just under a year, outstripping Chinese juggernaut Xiaomi's MIUI OS (thrid at 4.1 percent), Cyanogen (fourth at 2.8 percent), Apple's iOS (fifth at 2.5 percent) and easily beating offerings from behemoths Microsoft and Samsung (Tizen), both seventh at 0.3 percent.