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Wednesday November 14, 2018. 05:03 PM
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (powerdns and powerdns-recursor), Debian (ceph and spamassassin), Fedora (feh, flatpak, and xen), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, openstack-cinder, python-cryptography, and Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2.5), and Ubuntu (python2.7,...
Debian supports many architectures and, even for those it does not officially support, there are Debian ports that try to fill in the gap. For most user applications, it is mostly a matter of getting GCC up and running for the architecture in question, then building all of...
Tuesday November 13, 2018. 04:43 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firmware-nonfree and imagemagick), Fedora (cabextract, icecast, and libmspack), openSUSE (icecast), Red Hat (httpd24), Slackware (libtiff), SUSE (apache-pdfbox, firefox, ImageMagick, and kernel), and Ubuntu (clamav, spamassassin,...
User-space developers may be accustomed to thinking of system calls as direct calls into the kernel. Indeed, the first edition of The C Programming Language described read() and write() as 'a direct entry into the operating system'. In truth, user-level 'system calls' are...
Monday November 12, 2018. 05:15 PM
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (curl, lib32-curl, lib32-libcurl-compat, lib32-libcurl-gnutls, libcurl-compat, libcurl-gnutls, systemd, and thunderbird), Debian (ansible, ghostscript, qemu, thunderbird, and xen), Fedora (community-mysql, gettext, links,...
The 4.20-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. 'Fairly normal week, aside from me traveling'.
Saturday November 10, 2018. 08:57 PM
The 4.18.18, 4.14.80, 4.9.136, 4.4.163, and 3.18.125 stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains a relatively large set of important fixes. The 3.18.x updates may be about to come to an end, since it is not clear that anybody is using them. 'And from what I...
Friday November 9, 2018. 06:19 PM
Since the beginning, one part of the kernel-development task has been watching the mainline to see whether one's work had been merged. That is about to change with the advent of the pull-request tracker bot, which will inform maintainers when one of their pull requests has...
As a general rule, the kernel is supposed to use the least amount of CPU time possible; any time taken by the kernel is not available for the applications the user actually wants to run. As a result, not a lot of thought has gone into optimizing the execution of kernel-side...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (nginx), Fedora (icu, java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32, libgit2, php-pear-CAS, roundcubemail, and ruby), Gentoo (firefox, libX11, openssl, and python), openSUSE (thunderbird), Oracle (java-11-openjdk, kernel, and spice-server), Red Hat...
Thursday November 8, 2018. 05:57 PM
It has been nearly 13 years since Jeff Garzik proclaimed that Linux was 'proving its superiority in the area of crappy wireless (WiFi) support'. Happily, the situation has improved somewhat since then, but that doesn't mean that things can't get better yet. During the...
There is a whole new set of PostgreSQL releases out there, the main purpose of which is to include an important security fix. 'Using a purpose-crafted trigger definition, an attacker can run arbitrary SQL statements with superuser privileges when a superuser runs...
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (python-paramiko and thunderbird), Debian (firefox-esr, libdatetime-timezone-perl, and mariadb-10.0), Fedora (curl, NetworkManager, and xorg-x11-server), openSUSE (kernel), Oracle (java-1.7.0-openjdk, python-paramiko, thunderbird,...
Wednesday November 7, 2018. 10:28 PM
A 'joke' in the glibc manual—targeting a topic that is, at best, sensitive—has come up for discussion on the glibc-alpha mailing list again. When we looked at the controversy in May, Richard Stallman had put his foot down and a patch removing the joke—though opinions...
<p> There is always at least a small risk when installing a package for a distribution. By its very nature, package installation is an invasive process; some packages require the ability to make radical changes to the system—changes that users surely would not want other...
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (ghostscript), Debian (curl), Fedora (curl, thunderbird, and zchunk), openSUSE (thunderbird), Oracle (389-ds-base, binutils, curl and nss-pem, glusterfs, gnutls, jasper, kernel, krb5, libcdio, libkdcraw, libmspack, libvirt,...
Tuesday November 6, 2018. 05:26 PM
We looked at the WireGuard virtual private network (VPN) back in August and noted that it is built on top of a new cryptographic API being developed for the kernel, which is called Zinc. There has been some controversy about Zinc and why a brand new API was needed when the...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (glusterfs, gthumb, and mysql-5.5), Red Hat (389-ds-base, kernel, and xerces-c), Slackware (mariadb), SUSE (accountsservice, curl, icinga, kernel, and opensc), and Ubuntu (libxkbcommon, openssh, and ruby1.9.1, ruby2.0, ruby2.3,...
Monday November 5, 2018. 06:00 PM
At the end of the 4.20 merge window, 12,125 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline kernel repository; 6,390 came in since last week's summary was written. As is often the case, the latter part of the merge window contained a larger portion of cleanups and...
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