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Monday February 17, 2025. 01:35 PM
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, gcc, libxml2, nodejs:18, and nodejs:20), Debian (freerdp2, golang-glog, trafficserver, and tryton-client), Fedora (chromium, krb5, libheif, microcode_ctl, nginx, nginx-mod-fancyindex,...
The 6.14-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing; the announcement, for unknown reasons, went only to the linux-btrfs list. So the first few weeks of the 6.14 release development were smaller-than-usual, but rc3 is actually right in line with normal releases at this point....
Friday February 14, 2025. 05:32 PM
There are many challenges involved with running a web site like LWN. Some of them, such as finding the courage to write for people who know more about the subject matter than we do, simply come with the territory we have chosen. But others show up as an unwelcome surprise;...
Memcached is a memory-based data-caching daemon that has a long history. More than twenty years after its first public release, Memcached strives to remain relevant in a vastly changed computing landscape, balancing new features with a commitment to the original principles...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (doxygen, gcc-toolset-13-gcc, gcc-toolset-14-gcc, kernel, and libxml2), Debian (chromium, postgresql-13, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (krb5, openssl, and python3.13), Mageia (ark, ofono, and perl-Net-OAuth, perl-Crypt-URandom,...
Thursday February 13, 2025. 05:04 PM
The Asahi Linux project, which is working to support Linux on Apple silicon, has announced the resignation of Hector 'marcan' Martin as its lead, and his replacement by a seven-person committee. 'Today's news is bittersweet. We are grateful to marcan for kicking off this...
The openSUSE project has announced that future installations of the Tumbleweed rolling distribution will use SELinux for mandatory access control rather than AppArmor. Existing installations will not be migrated, and AppArmor will continue to be maintained for Tumbleweed....
Huge pages can increase the performance of many programs, but they can also have unfortunate performance impacts of their own. Over the last few years, multi-size transparent huge pages (mTHPs) have increasingly been seen as a happy medium that bring the benefits of huge...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (doxygen and openssl), Debian (dcmtk and webkit2gtk), Fedora (chromium, clevis-pin-tpm2, envision, fido-device-onboard, gotify-desktop, keylime-agent-rust, keyring-ima-signer, libkrun, python3.10, python3.11, python3.14,...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: BPF load-time checking; IRQ suspension; Rust for Linux; Rewriting coreutils; Selfish contributors; emlearn. Briefs: RfL policy; OpenWrt 24.10.0; Arti 1.4.0; LibreOffice 25.2; OpenInfra; Plasma 6.3; Attacks on Codeberg;...
Wednesday February 12, 2025. 08:30 PM
The Codeberg development forge has recently been subject to sustained attacks resulting in, among other things, abusive email being sent to the site's users. The organization has now put up a description and a defiant response: Extreme right forces actively target members...
While large language models and the expensive hardware they require are all the rage now, other areas of artificial intelligence work within much more constrained hardware environments. At FOSDEM 2025, Jon Nordby presented his open-source machine-learning inference engine...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, tbb, and thunderbird), Debian (bind9, cacti, pam-pkcs11, and ruby2.7), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, chromium, crun, and java-21-openjdk), Mageia (calibre, nginx, python-ansible-core, python-jinja2, ...
Most Linux systems depend on a suite of core utilities that the GNU Project started development on decades ago and are, of course, written in C. At FOSDEM 2025, Sylvestre Ledru made the case in his main stage talk that modern systems require safer, more maintainable tools....
Tuesday February 11, 2025. 04:28 PM
High-performance networking is a highly tuned activity; the amount of time available to deal with each packet may be measured in nanoseconds, so care must be taken to avoid anything that might slow the process down. Recently, there has been a fair amount of attention given...
Version 6.3 of the Plasma desktop has been released. One year on, with the teething problems a major new release inevitably brings firmly behind us, Plasma's developers have worked on fine-tuning, squashing bugs and adding features to Plasma 6 — turning it into the best...
The 6.6.77 stable kernel update has been released; it contains a single fix for a User Mode Linux build problem.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, tbb, and thunderbird), Debian (cacti, libtasn1-6, and rust-openssl), Oracle (galera and mariadb, kernel, raptor2, and thunderbird), SUSE (bind, fq, java-21-openj9, libtasn1-6-32bit, ovmf, python310, python312,...
Monday February 10, 2025. 06:10 PM
Miguel Ojeda gave a keynote at FOSDEM 2025 about the history of the Rust-for-Linux project, and the current attitude of people in the kernel community toward the experiment. Unlike his usual talks, this talk didn't focus so much on the current state of the project, but...
Version 1.4.0 of Arti, the Tor Project's next-generation Tor client written in Rust, has been released. Notable improvements in this release include a new RPC interface, and preparatory work toward service-side onion service denial-of-service resistance. The release is...
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