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Tuesday September 25, 2018. 04:53 PM
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (strongswan and zsh), Debian (dom4j and polarssl), openSUSE (apache2, gd, gnutls, GraphicsMagick, nodejs8, php7, and shadow), Oracle (mod_perl), Red Hat (mod_perl), Scientific Linux (mod_perl), SUSE (ant, gd, gnutls,...
<p>I recently took a deep dive into web site archival for friends who were worried about losing control over the hosting of their work online in the face of poor system administration or hostile removal. This makes web site archival an essential instrument in the toolbox of...
Monday September 24, 2018. 04:56 PM
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (bitcoin-daemon and bitcoin-qt), Debian (firefox-esr, hylafax, libarchive-zip-perl, mediawiki, okular, openafs, strongswan, and texlive-bin), Fedora (gitolite3, kernel-headers, and lcms2), Mageia (dropbear, kernel, lcms2,...
The 4.19-rc5 kernel prepatch has been released by Greg Kroah-Hartman. 'As almost everyone knows, it's been an 'interesting' week from a social point-of-view. But from the technical side, -rc5 looks totally normal.'
Friday September 21, 2018. 09:17 PM
The kernel's namespace abstraction allows different groups of processes to have different views of the system. This feature is most often used with containers; it allows each container to have its own view of the set of running processes, the network environment, the...
The Ubuntu blog has announced the release of version 1.0.0 of the Mir display server. 'Whether for building a device or for writing a shell for the desktop, Mir can give you a graphics stack that is fast, light, and secure. The Mir graphical stack works across different...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (hylafax, sympa, and texlive-bin), Fedora (curl and gitolite3), Mageia (bouncycastle, ghostscript, and libx11), openSUSE (webkit2gtk3), Oracle (spice and spice-gtk and spice-gtk and spice-server), Red Hat...
Thursday September 20, 2018. 04:16 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (glusterfs, php5, reportbug, and suricata), openSUSE (chromium and exempi), Red Hat (openstack-rabbitmq-container), SUSE (couchdb, crowbar, crowbar-core, crowbar-ha, crowbar-init, crowbar-openstack, crowbar-ui, gdm, OpenStack,...
A story in The New Yorker magazine may help explain some of the timing of the recent upheavals in kernel-land. Longtime followers of kernel development will find the article to be a mixed bag—over the top in spots, fairly accurate elsewhere. 'Torvalds’s decision to step...
Stable kernels 4.18.9, 4.14.71, 4.9.128, and 4.4.157 have been released. They all contain the usual set of important fixes and users should upgrade.
Wednesday September 19, 2018. 09:33 PM
Android's Project Treble is meant as a way to reduce the fragmentation in the Android ecosystem. It also makes porting Android 8 ('Oreo'—the first version to mandate Treble) more difficult, according to Fedor Tcymbal. He described the project and what it means for silicon...
Facebook runs a lot of programs and it tries to pack as many as it can onto each machine. That means running close to—and sometimes beyond—the resource limits on any given machine. How the system reacts when, for example, memory is exhausted, makes a big difference in...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium-browser and libapache2-mod-perl2), Oracle (kernel), and Ubuntu (ghostscript, glib2.0, and php5).
Version 7.0.0 of the LLVM compiler suite is out. 'It is the result of the community's work over the past six months, including: function multiversioning in Clang with the 'target' attribute for ELF-based x86/x86_64 targets, improved PCH support in clang-cl, preliminary DWARF ...
Tuesday September 18, 2018. 11:15 PM
A couple of surprising things happened in the kernel community on September 16: Linus Torvalds announced that he was taking a break from kernel development to focus on improving his own behavior, and the longstanding 'code of conflict' was replaced with a code of conduct...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (ghostscript, icu, nspr, nss, nss-softokn, nss-util, and okular), Red Hat (java-1.7.1-ibm, java-1.8.0-ibm, OpenStack Platform, openstack-neutron, and openstack-nova), and Ubuntu (clamav and php5, php7.0, php7.2).
The PostgreSQL community has, after an extended discussion, announced the adoption of a code of conduct 'which is intended to ensure that PostgreSQL remains an open and enjoyable project for anyone to join and participate in'.
Versity Software has announced that it has released ScoutFS under GPLv2. 'ScoutFS is the first GPL archiving file system ever released, creating an inherently safer and more user friendly option for storing archival data where accessibility over very large time scales, and...
Monday September 17, 2018. 04:46 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (discount, ghostscript, intel-microcode, mbedtls, thunderbird, and zutils), Fedora (ghostscript, java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, libzypp, matrix-synapse, nspr, nss, nss-softokn, nss-util, zsh, and zypper), ...
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