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Friday March 21, 2025. 06:33 PM
As a system runs and its memory becomes fragmented, allocating large, physically contiguous regions of memory becomes increasingly difficult. Much effort over the years has gone into avoiding the need to make such allocations whenever possible, but there are times when they...
Julien Malka has called for the NixOS project to use build-reproducibility to detect when a program has a maintainer-generated tarball that results in a different artifact than building from source. There are good reasons for projects to release maintainer-generated...
Brendan Jackman has been working to try to get ahead of the next hardware CPU vulnerability before it gets discovered. In January, he posted the second version of a patch set that introduces address-space isolation (ASI) as a way of preventing future CPU vulnerabilities...
Raspberry Pi has announced rpi-image-gen, a tool to create custom software images for its devices. rpi-image-gen is a Bash orientated scripting engine capable of producing software images with different on-disk partition layouts, file systems and profiles using collections...
The Asahi Linux project, working to support Linux on Apple hardware, has published a progress report to coincide with the 6.14 kernel release. Now that Rust for Linux abstractions are starting to be merged at a healthy pace, we are faced with an emerging challenge. It is...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (fluent-bit, openssh, php, and webkitgtk), Mageia (freerdp), Oracle (libreoffice and webkit2gtk3), Red Hat (kernel-rt), Slackware (libarchive), SUSE (apptainer, gitea-tea, libxml2, tomcat, webkit2gtk3, and...
Thursday March 20, 2025. 03:54 PM
As the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) approaches, the density of memory-management patches on the mailing lists has increased. Included among those are patches aimed at improving the reliability and performance of huge-page...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (php7.4, python-django, and python3.9), Fedora (bluez, iwd, libell, and radare2), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable, mosquitto, tomcat, tomcat packages, and vim), Oracle (firefox, grub2, python3, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), Red...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Oxidizr; Spectre mitigations; Frozen pages; Mapcount madness; Open-source risks; /e/OS. Briefs: Supply chain attacks; SystemRescue 12.00; Casual Make; GIMP 3.0; Git 2.49.0; GNOME 48; PeerTube 7.1; Quotes;... ...
Wednesday March 19, 2025. 07:14 PM
GNOME 48 ('Bengaluru') has been released. As usual, this release includes a number of new features and enhancements including support for shortcuts in the Orca screen reader on Wayland, new fonts, addition of image editing to Image Viewer, and more. GNOME 48 includes a numbe...
Modern CPUs all have multiple hardware vulnerabilities that the kernel needs to mitigate; the 6.13 kernel has workarounds for 14 security-sensitive CPU bugs just on x86_64. Several of those have multiple variants, or multiple mitigations that apply on different...
Version 7.1 of PeerTube, a tool for sharing videos online, has been released. Notable features in this release include improved support for the Podcast 2.0 standard, better playback stability, and a new view protocol enabled by default to allow PeerTube to handle more...
/e/OS is a privacy-centric, open-source mobile operating system that has primarily been targeted at mobile phones, with only a few community supported images available for tablet devices. In December, Murena—a company that sells devices with /e/OS preinstalled—announced...
A security company called Fenrisk has posted an overview of a pair of claimed successful supply-chain attacks on the Fedora and openSUSE distributions. We successfully identified vulnerabilities in the Pagure, the Git forge used by Fedora to store their package...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (tzdata), Fedora (expat and tigervnc), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (dcmtk), and Ubuntu (restrictedpython and uriparser).
Tuesday March 18, 2025. 05:49 PM
If all goes according to plan, the Ubuntu project will soon be replacing many of the traditional GNU utilities with implementations written in Rust, such as those created by the uutils project, which we covered in February. Wholesale replacement of core utilities at the...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (freetype and rails), Fedora (mosquitto and python-django4.2), Mageia (libarchive, libreoffice, php, and quictls), Red Hat (webkit2gtk3), SUSE (erlang, nethack, python312, and wpa_supplicant), and Ubuntu (freetype and plantuml).
Monday March 17, 2025. 11:34 PM
The long-awaited GIMP 3.0 release is now available. Major changes in 3.0 include non‑destructive editing for most commonly‑used filters, improved text creation, better color space management, and an update to GTK 3. This is the end result of seven years of hard work by...
Version 12.00 of the SystemRescue live Linux system has been released. SystemRescue is an Arch Linux based bootable toolkit for repairing systems in the event of a crash. Notable changes in this release include an update to Linux 6.12.19, support for bcachefs, and a number...
One of the many important tasks that the kernel's memory-management subsystem must handle is keeping track of how pages of memory are mapped into the address spaces of the processes running on the system. As long as mappings to a given page exist, that page must be kept in...
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