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Wednesday February 12, 2025. 06:46 PM
While large language models and the expensive hardware they require are all the rage now, other areas of artificial intelligence work within much more constrained hardware environments. At FOSDEM 2025, Jon Nordby presented his open-source machine-learning inference engine...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, tbb, and thunderbird), Debian (bind9, cacti, pam-pkcs11, and ruby2.7), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, chromium, crun, and java-21-openjdk), Mageia (calibre, nginx, python-ansible-core, python-jinja2, ...
Most Linux systems depend on a suite of core utilities that the GNU Project started development on decades ago and are, of course, written in C. At FOSDEM 2025, Sylvestre Ledru made the case in his main stage talk that modern systems require safer, more maintainable tools....
Tuesday February 11, 2025. 04:28 PM
High-performance networking is a highly tuned activity; the amount of time available to deal with each packet may be measured in nanoseconds, so care must be taken to avoid anything that might slow the process down. Recently, there has been a fair amount of attention given...
Version 6.3 of the Plasma desktop has been released. One year on, with the teething problems a major new release inevitably brings firmly behind us, Plasma's developers have worked on fine-tuning, squashing bugs and adding features to Plasma 6 — turning it into the best...
The 6.6.77 stable kernel update has been released; it contains a single fix for a User Mode Linux build problem.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, tbb, and thunderbird), Debian (cacti, libtasn1-6, and rust-openssl), Oracle (galera and mariadb, kernel, raptor2, and thunderbird), SUSE (bind, fq, java-21-openj9, libtasn1-6-32bit, ovmf, python310, python312,...
Monday February 10, 2025. 06:10 PM
Miguel Ojeda gave a keynote at FOSDEM 2025 about the history of the Rust-for-Linux project, and the current attitude of people in the kernel community toward the experiment. Unlike his usual talks, this talk didn't focus so much on the current state of the project, but...
Version 1.4.0 of Arti, the Tor Project's next-generation Tor client written in Rust, has been released. Notable improvements in this release include a new RPC interface, and preparatory work toward service-side onion service denial-of-service resistance. The release is...
Miguel Ojeda has announced the posting of a new document describing policies around the use of Rust in the Linux kernel. There has been a fair amount of confusion about what the kernel policies around Rust are, who maintains what and so on. This document tries to clarify...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, bzip2, galera and mariadb, keepalived, kernel, kernel-rt, mariadb:10.11, mingw-glib2, and podman), Debian (ark, firefox-esr, kernel, sssd, and thunderbird), Fedora (abseil-cpp, clevis-pin-tpm2, dbus-parsec, envision,...
Sunday February 9, 2025. 10:13 PM
The second 6.14 kernel prepatch is out for testing. It's Sunday afternoon, and I'm releasing the usual regularly scheduled release candidate while the rest of the US is getting ready for the biggest day in TV commercials interrupted by some kind of lawn bowling tournament.
Saturday February 8, 2025. 10:26 PM
The 6.13.2, 6.12.13, and 6.6.76 stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Friday February 7, 2025. 04:30 PM
The BPF verifier is charged with the challenging task of ensuring that a BPF program is safe for the kernel to run before that program is loaded. Among many other concerns, the verifier must ensure that any kfuncs (kernel functions that have been exported to BPF programs)...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjdk-17), Fedora (firefox, FlightGear, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk, and SimGear), Mageia (gstreamer), Red Hat (firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, libsoup, and python-jinja2), SUSE (bind, curl, dcmtk, etcd, ...
Thursday February 6, 2025. 10:25 PM
Jonathan Bryce has announced two open community meetings to hear input on the topic of the OpenInfra Foundation migrating to the Linux Foundation. Bryce wrote that the OpenInfra board has carefully evaluated its options, and sees joining the Linux Foundation as the best way...
Version 25.2 of the LibreOffice productivity suite is out. Changes include the ability to remove all personal information from any document, support for ODF version 1.4, a number of accessibility improvements, and more; see the release notes for details.
Version 24.10.0 of the OpenWrt router-oriented distribution has been released. Changes include an update to the 6.6 kernel, use of access control lists on larger systems, multipath TCP support, better WiFi6 support, the beginning of WiFi7 support, and more.
Open source is often described as a 'gift economy'—an ecosystem where contributors are motivated by a desire to make the world a better place. That is, sometimes, true. However, James Bottomley used his main track slot at FOSDEM 2025, on February 1, to make the case that it...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (asterisk and chromium), Fedora (FlightGear, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk, and SimGear), Mageia (bind, chromium-browser-stable, python-django, and vim), Oracle (buildah, bzip2, firefox,...
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