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Thursday November 7, 2024. 05:14 PM
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bcc, bpftrace, bzip2, container-tools:rhel8, grafana-pcp, haproxy, kernel, kernel-rt, krb5, libtiff, python-gevent, python3.11, python3.11-urllib3, python3.12, python3.12-urllib3, xmlrpc-c, and xorg-x11-server and...
Wednesday November 6, 2024. 05:35 PM
Image-based Linux distributions have seen increasing popularity, recently. They promise reliability and security, but pose packaging problems for existing distributions. Ryan Lahfa and Niklas Sturm spoke about the work that NixOS has done to enable an image-based workflow at ...
Man pages maintainer Alejandro Colomar announced in September that he was suspending his work due to a lack of support. He has now let it be known that funding has been found for the next year at least: We've been talking for a couple of months, and we have already agreed...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libtiff), Debian (context, libheif, and thunderbird), Fedora (php-tcpdf, syncthing, and thunderbird), Gentoo (EditorConfig core C library, Flatpak, Neat VNC, and Ubiquiti UniFi), Oracle (bcc, bpftrace, grafana-pcp, haproxy,...
Tuesday November 5, 2024. 04:17 PM
Version 2.1.0 of the LXQt lightweight Qt desktop environment has been released. The highlight of this release is support for multiple Wayland compositors: Through its new component lxqt-wayland-session, LXQt 2.1.0 supports 7 Wayland sessions (with Labwc, KWin, Wayfire,...
Joshua Liebow-Feeser took to the stage at RustConf to describe the methodology that his team uses to encode arbitrary constraints in the Rust type system when working on the Fuchsia operating system (slides). The technique is not unknown to the Rust community, but...
After a couple of years of effort, the BPF instruction set architecture has been accepted as RFC 9669, giving it a standard outside of the in-kernel implementation. This message from David Vernet (who also contributed an article on the standardization process last year)...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, openexr, and thunderbird), Fedora (llama-cpp and python-quart), Oracle (firefox, openexr, thunderbird, and xorg-x11-server and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), SUSE (chromium, govulncheck-vulndb, openssl-1_1, python311, and...
Monday November 4, 2024. 05:04 PM
OpenWrt is, despite its relatively low profile, one of our community's most important distributions; it runs untold numbers of network routers and has served as the base on which a lot of network-oriented development (including the bufferbloat-reduction work) has been done....
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, grafana, kernel, and mod_http2), Debian (chromium, openssl, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, krb5, mysql8.0, polkit, python-single-version, and webkitgtk), Mageia (bind, buildah, podman, skopeo, kernel,...
The 6.12-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus says: 'Another week, another rc. Nothing odd or special seems to be going on - this may be a bit on the bigger side for an rc6, but not hugely so, and nothing stands out.'
Friday November 1, 2024. 06:14 PM
Members of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board sat down for a 45-minute 'Ask Me Anything' (AMA) session at All Things Open in Raleigh, NC on October 29. Though the floor was open to any topic the audience might want to ask of the OSI board, many of the questions were...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released another four stable Linux kernel updates: 6.11.6, 6.6.59, 6.1.115, and 5.15.170.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Oracle (buildah, e2fsprogs, grafana, kernel, and mod_http2), Red Hat (buildah, container-tools:rhel8, firefox, grafana, grafana:7.3.6, podman, and thunderbird), SUSE (alloy,...
Thursday October 31, 2024. 10:26 PM
The Rust blog has an update on its progress on some of its project goals. One of the project's flagship goals is to resolve the biggest blockers to Linux building on stable Rust: Finally, we have been finding an increasing number of stabilization requests at the compiler...
OpenStreetMap tends to dominate the space for open mapping data, but it is not the only project working in this area. At the 2024 Open Source Summit Japan, Marc Prioleau presented the Overture Maps Foundation, which is building and distributing a set of worldwide maps under...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr and openssl), Fedora (firefox, libarchive, micropython, NetworkManager-libreswan, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Red Hat (nano), Slackware (mozilla-firefox, mozilla-thunderbird, tigervnc, and xorg), SUSE (389-ds,...
Wednesday October 30, 2024. 06:52 PM
Timothée Ravier has written a blog post about changes in the Fedora Atomic Desktops for Fedora Linux 41. Some of the notable new features for Atomic Desktops include bootloader updates enabled by default for UEFI systems, first steps towards using bootable containers, and...
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