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Friday December 29, 2023. 04:17 PM
Gentoo Linux is the prototypical source-based distribution, but there is now a binary installation option available as well. To speed up working with slow hardware and for overall convenience, we’re now also offering binary packages for download and direct installation!...
Thursday December 28, 2023. 07:33 PM
Version 1.75.0 of the Rust language has been released. Notable changes include 'async fn and -> impl Trait in traits', a pointer byte-offset API, some compiler performance improvements, and a number of stabilized APIs.
Displaying an application's graphical output onto the screen requires compositing and mode setting that are correctly synchronized among the various pieces, with low overhead. In this second and final article in the series, we will look at those pieces of the Linux graphics...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (haproxy, libssh, and nodejs), Fedora (filezilla and minizip-ng), Gentoo (Git, libssh, and OpenSSH), and SUSE (gstreamer, postfix, webkit2gtk3, and zabbix).
Wednesday December 27, 2023. 07:35 PM
The Debian project has completed a general-resolution vote, adopting a statement expressing concern about the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) pending in the European Union. Even if only 'commercial activities' are in the scope of CRA, the Free Software community - and as a...
Tuesday December 26, 2023. 03:58 PM
Security updates have been issued by Debian (curl, openssh, osslsigncode, and putty), Fedora (chromium, filezilla, libfilezilla, mingw-gstreamer1, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-base, mingw-gstreamer1-plugins-good, opensc, thunderbird,...
Monday December 25, 2023. 06:58 PM
As is the tradition for the Ruby programming language, December 25 is the date for new major releases; this year, Ruby 3.3.0 was released. It comes with a new parser called 'Prism' that is 'both a C library that will be used internally by CRuby and a Ruby gem that can be...
Sunday December 24, 2023. 02:26 AM
The 6.7-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Anyway, rc7 itself looks fairly normal. It's actually a bit bigger than rc6 was, but not hugely so, and nothing in here looks at all strange. Please do give it a whirl if you have the time and the energy, but let's face it, I ...
Saturday December 23, 2023. 11:16 PM
The 5.15.145 stable kernel has been released. It consists mostly of fixes to the ksmbd subsystem, which has been marked as broken due to (until now) a lack of support for the 5.15.x kernels.
Friday December 22, 2023. 06:24 PM
Version 4.6.0 of the darktable photo editor has been released. Changes include a new 'rgb primaries' module that 'can be used for delicate color corrections as well as creative color grading', enhancements to the sigmoid module, some performance improvements, and more. (LWN...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (bluez, chromium, gst-plugins-bad1.0, openssh, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, firefox, kernel, libssh, nss, opensc, and thunderbird), Gentoo (Arduino, Exiv2, LibRaw, libssh, NASM, and QtWebEngine), Mageia (gstreamer), and SUSE ...
Thursday December 21, 2023. 11:48 PM
Unsurprisingly, Linus Torvalds has let it be known that he will do a 6.7-rc8 release (rather than 6.7 final) on December 31, thus avoiding opening the 6.8 merge window on New Year's Day. Just FYI - my current plan is that -rc7 will happen this Saturday (because I still...
Tooling for profiling the effects of memory usage and layout has always lagged behind that for profiling processor activity, so Namhyung Kim's patch set for data-type profiling in perf is a welcome addition. It provides aggregated breakdowns of memory accesses by data type...
The Rust Blog announces the stabilization of a couple of trait features aimed at improving support for async code: Ever since the stabilization of RFC #1522 in Rust 1.26, Rust has allowed users to write impl Trait as the return type of functions (often called 'RPIT'). This ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (kernel), Mageia (bluez), Oracle (fence-agents, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, opensc, openssl, postgresql:10, and postgresql:12), Red Hat (postgresql:15 and tigervnc), Slackware (proftpd), and SUSE (docker,...
Wednesday December 20, 2023. 09:21 PM
Version 8.2.0 of the QEMU emulator is out. Changes include new emulations for virtio-sound devices, universal flash storage devices, Xilinx Versal boards, and much more.
Yet another year has come to an end. Much to our dismay, 2023 did not, in fact, happen exactly as we predicted back in January. So it seems that, once again, we will have to go through the process of looking at the predictions that we made and mocking each in turn, before...
The 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit will be held May 13 to 15 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The call for proposals has already gone out, with a deadline of March 1. 'LSF/MM/BPF is an invitation-only technical workshop to map out improvements...
The 6.6.8, 6.1.69, 5.15.144, 5.10.205, 5.4.265, 4.19.303, and 4.14.334 stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes. Note that 5.15.145 is already in the review process, with a due date of December 22. It consists almost...
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