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Friday December 15, 2023. 12:11 AM
Wietse Venema posted a note to the postfix-users mailing list about the 25th anniversary of the Postfix mail server. As can be seen, it had a pivotal role in bringing more awareness of open-source software to IBM. Beyond that, of course, it is an excellent piece of software...
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Thursday December 14, 2023. 04:45 PM
The kernel's stable-update process is intended to produce kernels that are, well, stable; when that promise is lived up to, users can update to newer stable updates without fear. By any account, a bug that corrupts data on ext4 filesystems constitutes a failure to hold to...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and rabbitmq-server), Fedora (chromium, kernel, perl-CryptX, and python-jupyter-server), Mageia (curl), Oracle (curl and postgresql), Red Hat (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, linux-firmware, postgresql, postgresql:10, and...
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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 14, 2023 is available.
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Wednesday December 13, 2023. 10:49 PM
A contest for new logos for the openSUSE project and for four separate distributions of it, Tumbleweed, Leap, Slowroll, and Kalpa, has turned into a bit of an uproar in that community. A vote has been held on the candidates and winners have been announced, but some are...
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The 6.6.7, 6.1.68, 5.15.143, 5.10.204, 5.4.264, 4.19.302, and 4.14.333 stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
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The Rust for Linux (RFL) project may not have (yet) resulted in user-visible changes to the Linux kernel, but it seems the wider world has taken notice. Hongyu Li has announced that the Rust for Linux code is now part of a satellite just launched out of China. The satellite...
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A new book called OpenPGP for application developers has been released under the Creative Commons BY-SA license. This document is not intended for end-users or implementers of OpenPGP libraries (or other software that directly handles internal OpenPGP data structures). ...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (debian-security-support and xorg-server), Fedora (java-17-openjdk, libcmis, and libreoffice), Mageia (fish), Red Hat (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, curl, fence-agents, kernel, kpatch-patch, libxml2, pixman, podman, runc,...
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Tuesday December 12, 2023. 11:04 PM
Konstantin Ryabitsev has announced that the movement of kernel mailing lists away from the venerable vger.kernel.org system is nearly complete: Over the past few months we've migrated all of the vger.kernel.org mailing lists, with the exception of the Big One...
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The story of Canonical's takeover of the LXD container manager, and the subsequent creation of the Incus fork, has been simmering for a while. Now Incus developer Stéphane Graber reports that Canonical has changed the license and contribution terms for LXD: Per the commit ...
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So-called 'immutable' Linux distributions have been in development for some time, but (unless you count Chrome OS) haven't gained much traction. Project Bluefin, is a heavily customized set of Fedora Silverblue images coming from the Universal Blue community; they are...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (libreoffice and webkit2gtk), Fedora (java-1.8.0-openjdk and seamonkey), Oracle (apr, edk2, kernel, and squid:4), Red Hat (postgresql:12, tracker-miners, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (curl, go1.20, go1.21, hplip, openvswitch, opera,...
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Monday December 11, 2023. 08:55 PM
James Bottomley writes that open-source developers are increasingly likely to be held liable for flaws in their code and suggests a solution: Indemnification means one party, in particular circumstances, agreeing to be on the hook for the legal responsibilities of another...
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The Rust project makes incremental releases every six weeks, a fact that makes it easy to overlook some of the interesting changes coming to the language, such as new ABIs, better debugger support, asynchronous traits, and support for C strings. The end of the year provides...
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The 6.7-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Nothing looks particularly scary, which is good, because if it had been, I wouldn't have had the capacity to deal with it last week. Let's hope it stays that way even as I am getting better. Because the holidays are almost...
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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.6.6 and 6.1.67 stable kernels. Both contain a single reversion of the 'wifi: cfg80211: fix CQM for non-range use' patch.
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (bluez, chromium, and curl), Red Hat (apr), Slackware (libxml2), and Ubuntu (squid3 and tar).
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Saturday December 9, 2023. 11:55 PM
There is a problem in multiple stable kernel releases that is causing data corruption in ext4 filesystems. It is caused by a problematic commit that is in multiple stable kernels: The commit got merged in 6.5-rc1 so all stable kernels that have 91562895f803 ('ext4: properly ...
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Friday December 8, 2023. 05:02 PM
It can be instructive to pull down the dog-eared copy of the first edition of The C Programming Language that many of us still have on our bookshelves; the language has changed considerably since that book was published. Many 'features' of early C have been left behind,...
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