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Friday August 30, 2024. 05:38 PM
Reading an established open-source project's developer mailing list may leave new contributors wishing they had a decoder ring. Greg Sabino Mullane has written up a valuable explainer for those new to the PostgreSQL hackers (pgsql-hackers) mailing list that may also be...
Here is a piece of advice for anybody wanting an easy and frustration-free life: do not run your own email system. While there are numerous advantages to keeping some control over your communications, there is also a long list of things that can go wrong. A recent failure of ...
Back in 2021, the ElasticSearch search engine and Kibana visualization platform were relicensed under the non-free Server Side Public License (SSPL). Now, Elastic (the company owning those projects) has announced that those projects will also be distributable under the...
Dave Airlie makes an analogy between the stages of road building and those of adding Rust to the Linux kernel. For the wayfinders the process of interacting with maintainers is frustrating and slow, and they don't enjoy it as much as wayfinding, and because they still only ...
The venerable AnandTech site has announced its closing after 27 years of technology-industry coverage. Still, few things last forever, and the market for written tech journalism is not what it once was – nor will it ever be again. So, the time has come for AnandTech to wr...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libvpx, postgresql, postgresql:12, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, and python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9), Debian (chromium and ghostscript), Fedora (python3.13), and SUSE (chromium and podman).
The Mono project was started in 2001 to develop a.NET environment for Linux systems. Microsoft has owned that project since 2016, but has not made a major release since 2019. The company has now announced that Mono is being handed over to the WineHQ organization, which will...
Thursday August 29, 2024. 09:09 PM
The KDE project plans to directly ask for donations in the Plasma desktop starting with version 6.2. According to this blog post by Nate Graham, users will see a system notification once per year (in December) asking for a donation to the non-profit KDE e.V.: Now, I know...
Version 5.0.0 of GNU Screen has been released. Notable changes in this release include new commands for authentication, input into multiple windows at the same time, and to turn on/off truecolor support.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.10.7, 6.6.48, and 6.1.107 stable kernels. They all contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree, as is the norm.
Plasma Mobile is an open-source user interface for mobile devices, developed by the KDE community. It's built on the same foundations as Plasma Desktop, including KDE Frameworks and the KWin window manager. Much like its desktop counterpart, Plasma Mobile caters to advanced...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind and bind-dyndb-ldap and postgresql:16), Fedora (less and python3.6), Mageia (nodejs & yarnpkg), Oracle (libvpx and postgresql:16), Red Hat (edk2, git, kernel, openldap, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, python3, and...
Wedson Almeida Filho, one of the key developers driving the Rust-for-Linux project, has retired from the project. After almost 4 years, I find myself lacking the energy and enthusiasm I once had to respond to some of the nontechnical nonsense, so it's best to leave it up...
Wednesday August 28, 2024. 09:45 PM
Immutable data makes concurrent access easier, since it eliminates the data-race conditions that can plague multithreaded programs. At PyCon 2024, Yury Selivanov introduced an early-stage project called MemHive, which uses Python subinterpreters and immutable data to...
Achieving consensus among Debian Developers on technical topics and procedures can be, to put it mildly, challenging. Nevertheless, that is exactly what Otto Kekäläinen has tried to do with a proposal that would set up 'principles all Debian packages should follow to be...
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (calibre, dotnet8.0, dovecot, webkit2gtk4.0, and webkitgtk), Oracle (nodejs:20), Red Hat (bind, bind and bind-dyndb-ldap, postgresql:16, and squid), Slackware (kcron and plasma), SUSE (keepalived and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu...
Tuesday August 27, 2024. 07:16 PM
KDE developer Carl Schwan has announced the release of Calligra Office version 4.0. The most significant changes in this release include a 'major overhaul' of the office suite's user interface, and a transition to Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6.
Nominations are now open for people interested in joining the Ubuntu Community Council, 'the highest governance body of the Ubuntu project'. Any Ubuntu Member can apply from now until Sunday, September 22 at 23:59 UTC. The Ubuntu project turned 20 this year, but is still in ...
On August 13, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the final form of its new post-quantum cryptographic standards. One key-exchange mechanism and two digital-signature schemes are now officially sanctioned by the institute. Adopting the new ...
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