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Tuesday November 5, 2024. 03:43 PM
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...
The Raspberry Pi project has announced a new version of Raspberry Pi OS. It includes a number of significant changes, the most notable of which is that the Raspberry Pi Desktop now uses Wayland by default for all Pi models using the labwc compositor: For most of this year,...
The kernel graphics driver for the Apple M1 and M2 GPUs is, rather famously, written in Rust, but it has achieved conformance with various graphics standards, which is also noteworthy. At the X.Org Developers Conference (XDC) 2024, Alyssa Rosenzweig gave an update on the...
The first stable release of the Thunderbird mail client for Android is now available: Just over two years ago, we announced our plans to bring Thunderbird to Android by taking K-9 Mail under our wing. The journey took a little longer than we had originally anticipated and...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah), Debian (python-git, texlive-bin, and xorg-server), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (Botan, go1.22-openssl, go1.23-openssl, grafana, libgsf, pcp, pgadmin4, python310-pytest-html, python313,...
Tuesday October 29, 2024. 06:27 PM
Mozilla has announced the release of a new version of Firefox. This version has the usual mix of security fixes and new features, as well as a handful of deprecations. The release removes support for HTTP/2 Push, but adds hardware acceleration for SVGs, support for wide...
Fedora Linux 41 has been released. See the 'what's new' pages for Fedora Workstation and Fedora KDE, to learn more about the latest in those editions. There is also a new Fedora Miracle Window Manager Spin that offers the Miracle tiling window manager for Wayland.
The first program that Martin Pool ever wrote, he said, had bugs; the ones he's writing now most likely have bugs too. The talk Pool gave at RustConf this year was about a way to try to write programs with fewer bugs. He has developed a tool called cargo-mutants that...
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