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Thursday July 11, 2024. 02:49 AM
Wednesday July 10, 2024. 08:04 PM
Doug Brown documents the long journey to fixing a bug in the GDebi utility for installing Debian packages. He first encountered the bug in Ubuntu MATE 18.04: 'at the time I just ignored this issue. I didn't want to deal with it. I went off to the trusty Linux terminal and...
Fedora Atomic Desktop and Fedora IoT systems installed before Fedora 40 may fail to boot after an update if secure boot is enabled. Fedora Magazine has a post by Timothée Ravier about the problem, how users can work around it, and what the project is doing to avoid the simil...
The eventfs filesystem provides an interface to the tracepoints that are available to be used by various Linux tracing tools (e.g. ftrace, perf, uprobes, etc.); it is meant to be a version of the tracefs filesystem that dynamically allocates its entries as needed. The goal...
Sxmo, short for 'Simple X Mobile', is described on its web site as 'a minimalist environment for Linux mobile devices'; it offers a menu-driven interface that is controlled with the phone's hardware buttons. Sxmo enables the user to send SMS messages from a text editor and...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, gvisor-tap-vsock, kernel-rt, libreswan, linux-firmware, pki-core, and podman), Fedora (firefox and jpegxl), Gentoo (Buildah, HarfBuzz, and LIVE555 Media Server), Oracle (buildah, gvisor-tap-vsock, kernel, libreswan,...
Tuesday July 9, 2024. 11:17 PM
There are a number of kernel filesystems that store their directory entries directly in the directory-entry cache (dcache) without having any permanent storage for those objects. It started out as a 'neat hack' for ramfs, Al Viro said, at the start of his filesystem-track...
Version 128.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes this time include the ability to translate highlighted phrases from the context menu, display of recent searches on opening the address bar (US/Canada only), a streamlined dialog for clearing user data, and more.
The PSP security protocol (PSP) is a way to transparently encrypt packets by efficiently offloading encryption and decryption to the network interface cards (NICs) that Google uses for connections inside its data centers. The protocol is similar to IPsec, in that it allows ...
Alexander 'Solar Designer' Peslyak has disclosed another OpenSSH vulnerability that can be exploited for remote code execution, but only on distributions that have applied a patch to add auditing support. Specifically, RHEL 9 and derivatives are affected, as are Fedora 36...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel), Fedora (ghostscript, golang, httpd, libnbd, netatalk, rust-sequoia-chameleon-gnupg, rust-sequoia-gpg-agent, rust-sequoia-keystore, rust-sequoia-openpgp, and rust-sequoia-sq), Mageia (apache), Red ...
The 6.6.38 stable kernel update has been released, without the benefit of the usual review process. It reverts some BPF changes with patches that do not appear in the mainline (in this form, at least). 'All powerpc and arm64 users of the 6.6 kernel series must upgrade....
On his blog, Behdad Esfahbod has published a lengthy and detailed look at the state of open-source text rendering. It looks at the libraries available, application support, future directions, and gives a summary analysis of the ecosystem. In broad strokes, OpenType added...
Monday July 8, 2024. 08:10 PM
At DevConf.cz 2024, Marta Lewandowska gave a talk to discuss a new approach for booting Linux systems, 'No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead'. The talk, available on YouTube, introduced a new project called nmbl (for 'no more bootloader', pronounced 'nimble')....
Version 15.1 of the GNU debugger has been released. Changes include a number of enhancements to GDB's Python support, some Debugger Adapter Protocol additions, some new GDBserver options, and more.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (openssh), Debian (krb5), Fedora (yt-dlp), Gentoo (firefox, KDE Plasma Workspaces, Stellarium, thunderbird, and X.Org X11 library), Mageia (python-js2py and znc), Oracle (389-ds, c-ares, container-tools, cups, go-toolset,...
The 6.10-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Things remain calm, although I do suspect that part of it is that it's been the July 4th week in the US, and a lot of Europe is starting to go away on summer vacation. But hey, let's not look a gift horse too closely in the ...
Friday July 5, 2024. 08:44 PM
Debian's proposed tag2upload service would be worthy of an article even if it wasn't so contentious; tag2upload promises a streamlined way for Debian developers using Git to upload packages to the Debian Archive. But tag2upload has been in limbo for years due to disagreement ...
ISO releases new C++ language standards on a three-year cadence; now that it's been more than a year since the finalization of C++23, we have a good idea of what features could be adopted for C++26 — although proposals can still be submitted until January 2025. Of...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of seven more stable kernels. Versions 6.9.8, 6.6.37, 6.1.97, 5.15.162, 5.10.221, 5.4.279, and 4.19.317 are now available.
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