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Monday November 6, 2023. 05:23 PM
Containers and virtual machines on Linux communicate with the world via virtual network devices. This arrangement makes the full power of the Linux networking stack available, but it imposes the full overhead of that stack as well. Often, the routing of this networking...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, open-vm-tools, openjdk-17, pmix, and trafficserver), Fedora (netconsd, podman, suricata, and usd), Oracle (.NET 6.0,.NET 7.0, binutils, ghostscript, java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, and squid), SUSE (apache-ivy,...
Friday November 3, 2023. 07:24 PM
The Google Project Zero blog celebrates the launch of the Pixel 8 handset, the first to make use of Arm's Memory Tagging Extension (MTE). Linux has supported MTE since the 5.10 release in 2020, but that support has only now shown up (in experimental form) in an available...
The Open Enterprise Linux Association, a joint venture founded by CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE, has announced its first code release. OpenELA is excited to announce that the source code for all packages necessary for anyone to build a derivative Enterprise Linux operating system...
As of this writing, 9,842 non-merge changesets have found their way into the mainline repository since the 6.7 merge window opened. Nearly a third of those consist of the entire bcachefs development history but, even discounting that, there has been a lot of material landing ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (phppgadmin and vlc), Fedora (attract-mode, chromium, and netconsd), Red Hat (.NET 7.0, c-ares, curl, ghostscript, insights-client, python, squid, and squid:4), SUSE (kernel and roundcubemail), and Ubuntu (libsndfile).
Thursday November 2, 2023. 04:28 PM
One of the core objectives of any confidential-computing implementation is to protect a guest system's memory from access by actors outside of the guest itself. The host computer and hypervisor are part of the group that is to be excluded from such access; indeed, they are...
Julia Evans has posted a list of confusing Git terms and behavior along with explanations of what is actually going on. “Your branch is up to date with ‘origin/main’” This message seems straightforward – it’s saying that your main branch is up to date with the ...
Home Assistant 2023.11 is available. New features include a to-do list manager, Matter 1.2 support, customizable tile cards, new integrations, and more. (LWN looked at Home Assistant last month).
The GNU awk text-processing utility, gawk, has released version 5.3.0. The main new features add compatibility with 'The One True Awk' (also known as 'BWK awk'); version 5.3.0 adds CSV (comma-separated values) parsing and the ability to use u escape sequences for Unicode...
The 6.5.10 and 6.1.61 stable kernels have been released. As usual, they contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree; users of those series should upgrade.
Security updates have been issued by Gentoo (Netatalk), Oracle (firefox), Red Hat (.NET 6.0,.NET 6.0,.NET 7.0, binutils, and qemu-kvm), SUSE (gcc13, tomcat, and xorg-x11-server), and Ubuntu (axis, libvpx, linux-starfive, thunderbird, and xrdp).
Wednesday November 1, 2023. 08:31 PM
LWN.net is looking to hire a full-time writer/editor to help us keep the news flowing and to expand our content in areas of interest to our readers. We are certain that the person we need is out there somewhere, and are counting on help from LWN readers to find them. Read on ...
Python functions can use both positional and keyword arguments; the latter provide a certain level of documentation for an argument and its meaning, while allowing them to be given in any order in a call. But it is often the case that the name of the local variable to be...
LWN editor Jonathan Corbet was asked to give a brief talk about kernel maintainership at the recently concluded Linux Foundation Member Summit. That talk was recorded and has now been made available on YouTube. There is little in it that will be news to regular LWN readers,...
Matthew Garrett explains why ACPI exists and why it is not as bad a thing as some think. There's an alternative universe where we decided to teach the kernel about every piece of hardware it should run on. Fortunately (or, well, unfortunately) we've seen that in the ARM...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (h2o, open-vm-tools, pmix, and zookeeper), Gentoo (GitPython), Oracle (firefox, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, libguestfs-winsupport, nginx:1.22, and thunderbird), Red Hat (samba), SUSE (container-suseconnect, libsndfile, and...
Tuesday October 31, 2023. 06:43 PM
A fast-moving patch set—seemingly the norm for Linux networking development—seeks to add some Rust abstractions for physical layer (PHY) drivers. Lots of review has been done, and the patch set has been reworked frequently in response to those comments. Unfortunately,...
Version 0.2 of Incus, an LXD fork, has been released. 'This version incorporates most changes that went into LXD 5.19 as well as introduce a few additional features and improvements.' Changes include NVME storage support, support for migrating clustered environments from...
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