|
Navigation
Search
Top: LWN.net
|
PC / Tech. > LWN.net
Thursday December 14, 2023. 01:45 AM
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...
A new book called OpenPGP for application developers has been released under the Creative Commons BY-SA license. This document is not intended for end-users or implementers of OpenPGP libraries (or other software that directly handles internal OpenPGP data structures). ...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (debian-security-support and xorg-server), Fedora (java-17-openjdk, libcmis, and libreoffice), Mageia (fish), Red Hat (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, curl, fence-agents, kernel, kpatch-patch, libxml2, pixman, podman, runc,...
Tuesday December 12, 2023. 11:04 PM
Konstantin Ryabitsev has announced that the movement of kernel mailing lists away from the venerable vger.kernel.org system is nearly complete: Over the past few months we've migrated all of the vger.kernel.org mailing lists, with the exception of the Big One...
The story of Canonical's takeover of the LXD container manager, and the subsequent creation of the Incus fork, has been simmering for a while. Now Incus developer Stéphane Graber reports that Canonical has changed the license and contribution terms for LXD: Per the commit ...
So-called 'immutable' Linux distributions have been in development for some time, but (unless you count Chrome OS) haven't gained much traction. Project Bluefin, is a heavily customized set of Fedora Silverblue images coming from the Universal Blue community; they are...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libreoffice and webkit2gtk), Fedora (java-1.8.0-openjdk and seamonkey), Oracle (apr, edk2, kernel, and squid:4), Red Hat (postgresql:12, tracker-miners, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (curl, go1.20, go1.21, hplip, openvswitch, opera,...
Monday December 11, 2023. 08:55 PM
James Bottomley writes that open-source developers are increasingly likely to be held liable for flaws in their code and suggests a solution: Indemnification means one party, in particular circumstances, agreeing to be on the hook for the legal responsibilities of another...
The Rust project makes incremental releases every six weeks, a fact that makes it easy to overlook some of the interesting changes coming to the language, such as new ABIs, better debugger support, asynchronous traits, and support for C strings. The end of the year provides...
The 6.7-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Nothing looks particularly scary, which is good, because if it had been, I wouldn't have had the capacity to deal with it last week. Let's hope it stays that way even as I am getting better. Because the holidays are almost...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.6.6 and 6.1.67 stable kernels. Both contain a single reversion of the 'wifi: cfg80211: fix CQM for non-range use' patch.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (bluez, chromium, and curl), Red Hat (apr), Slackware (libxml2), and Ubuntu (squid3 and tar).
Saturday December 9, 2023. 11:55 PM
There is a problem in multiple stable kernel releases that is causing data corruption in ext4 filesystems. It is caused by a problematic commit that is in multiple stable kernels: The commit got merged in 6.5-rc1 so all stable kernels that have 91562895f803 ('ext4: properly ...
Friday December 8, 2023. 05:02 PM
It can be instructive to pull down the dog-eared copy of the first edition of The C Programming Language that many of us still have on our bookshelves; the language has changed considerably since that book was published. Many 'features' of early C have been left behind,...
The 6.6.5, 6.1.66, 5.15.142, 5.10.203, 5.4.263, 4.19.301, and 4.14.332 stable kernels have been released. As usual, they contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium), Mageia (firefox, thunderbird, and vim), SUSE (kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-handler-container, virt-launcher-container, virt-libguestfs-tools- container, virt-operator-container), and...
Thursday December 7, 2023. 05:28 PM
User-space shadow stacks are a relatively new feature in Linux; support was only added for 6.6, and is limited to the x86 architecture. As support for other architectures (including arm64 and RISC-V) approaches readiness, though, more thought is going into the API for this...
|
25 sources
Current Date
May, Thu 2 - 15:20 CEST
|
