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Wednesday December 20, 2023. 04:04 PM
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (ansible and ansible-core), Gentoo (Minecraft Server and thunderbird), Mageia (fusiondirectory), Red Hat (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, opensc, and openssl), Slackware (libssh and mozilla), SUSE (avahi, firefox, ghostscript,...
Tuesday December 19, 2023. 06:19 PM
Linux graphics developers often speak of modern Linux graphics when they refer to a number of individual software components and how they interact with each other. Among other things, it's a mix of kernel-managed display resources, Wayland for compositing, accelerated 3D...
Version 4.2.0 of the Qubes OS distribution has been released; changes include a switch to Xfce for the Fedora and Debian templates, a number of rewritten graphical applications, PipeWire support, and more. See the release notes for details. (Qubes OS was last covered here in...
OpenSSH 9.6 has been released. It includes some minor improvements and a fix for the so-called Terrapin attack. While cryptographically novel, the security impact of this attack is fortunately very limited as it only allows deletion of consecutive messages, and deleting...
Version 121.0 of the Firefox browser is out. Along with the usual pile of security fixes, this release add the ability to force links to be rendered with underlines and use of Wayland by default if it is available: 'This brings support for touchpad & touchscreen gestures,...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (webkit2gtk), Fedora (rdiff-backup and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (cjose and ghostscript), Oracle (avahi), Red Hat (postgresql:10), and SUSE (avahi, freerdp, libsass, and ncurses).
Monday December 18, 2023. 04:01 PM
The NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX HW family of adapters is a complex beast, supporting networking, InfiniBand, RDMA, and more. As a result, the mlx5 kernel driver that supports this hardware is also complex, as is the interface that it provides to user space. The mlx5 developers...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (freeimage, ghostscript, intel-microcode, spip, and xorg-server), Fedora (chromium, perl, perl-Devel-Cover, perl-PAR-Packer, polymake, PyDrive2, seamonkey, and vim), Gentoo (Leptonica), Mageia (audiofile, gimp, golang, and...
Linus has released 6.7-rc6 for testing. ' Please do give this a test in between the last-minute xmas shopping or whatever else is going on...'
Sunday December 17, 2023. 09:15 PM
Changwoo Min provides an introduction to the sched_ext scheduling class: Sched_ext was proposed to address the problems mentioned above. It allows users to write a custom scheduling policy using BPF without modifying the kernel code. You don't need to struggle to maintain...
Friday December 15, 2023. 05:23 PM
In response to the expressed unhappiness over the recent logo-selection process in the openSUSE project (covered in this article), the project has announced that there will be a new vote: During the community meeting this week where the results were discussed, participants ...
The gccrs project is an ambitious effort started in 2014 to implement a Rust compiler within The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). Even though the task is far from complete, progress has been made since LWN's previous coverage, according to reports from the project. Meanwhile,...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (bluez and haproxy), Fedora (curl, dotnet6.0, dotnet7.0, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server), Red Hat (avahi and gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free), Slackware (bluez), SUSE (cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi-...
Wietse Venema posted a note to the postfix-users mailing list about the 25th anniversary of the Postfix mail server. As can be seen, it had a pivotal role in bringing more awareness of open-source software to IBM. Beyond that, of course, it is an excellent piece of software...
Thursday December 14, 2023. 04:45 PM
The kernel's stable-update process is intended to produce kernels that are, well, stable; when that promise is lived up to, users can update to newer stable updates without fear. By any account, a bug that corrupts data on ext4 filesystems constitutes a failure to hold to...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and rabbitmq-server), Fedora (chromium, kernel, perl-CryptX, and python-jupyter-server), Mageia (curl), Oracle (curl and postgresql), Red Hat (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, linux-firmware, postgresql, postgresql:10, and...
Wednesday December 13, 2023. 10:49 PM
A contest for new logos for the openSUSE project and for four separate distributions of it, Tumbleweed, Leap, Slowroll, and Kalpa, has turned into a bit of an uproar in that community. A vote has been held on the candidates and winners have been announced, but some are...
The 6.6.7, 6.1.68, 5.15.143, 5.10.204, 5.4.264, 4.19.302, and 4.14.333 stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
The Rust for Linux (RFL) project may not have (yet) resulted in user-visible changes to the Linux kernel, but it seems the wider world has taken notice. Hongyu Li has announced that the Rust for Linux code is now part of a satellite just launched out of China. The satellite...
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