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mercredi 21 août 2024, 19:31
Gentoo developer Michał Górny has written a lengthy blog post that explains how Gentoo approaches releases: Gentoo is something of a hybrid, as it combines the best of both worlds. It is a rolling release distribution with a single shared repository that is available to...
Linux installers receive a disproportionate amount of attention compared to the amount of time that most users spend with them. Ideally, a user spends only a few minutes using the installer, versus years using the distribution after it is installed. Yet, the installer sets...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (aom, cinder, dovecot, glance, and nova), Fedora (mysql8.0), Oracle (curl and libreoffice), SUSE (oniguruma, openssl-1_0_0, openssl1, and xen), and Ubuntu (cacti, curl, exfatprogs, firefox, and vim).
At PyCon 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Anthony Shaw looked at the various kinds of parallelism available to Python programs. There have been two major developments on the parallel-execution front over the last few years, with the effort to provide subinterpreters, each...
mardi 20 août 2024, 23:31
Version 0.3.0 of the uv Python package and project manager has been released. Introduced in February, uv is written in Rust and aims to be 'Cargo for Python'. Notable changes in this release include the addition of interfaces for managing projects, installing Python, and...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (squid), Fedora (putty), Mageia (quictls), Oracle (bind, curl, python-setuptools, python3.11-setuptools, and python3.12-setuptools), Red Hat (kernel, kpatch-patch-4_18_0-305_120_1, kpatch-patch-4_18_0-372_87_1 and...
lundi 19 août 2024, 17:12
The FreeBSD Project is, for the second time this year, engaging in a long-running discussion about the possibility of including Rust in its base system. The sequel to the first discussion included some work by Alan Somers to show what it might look like to use Rust code in...
Today's crop of new stable kernels consists of seven new versions: 6.10.6, 6.6.47, 6.1.106, 5.15.165, 5.10.224, 5.4.282, and 4.19.320. As usual, each contains important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-asyncssh), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, httpd, and tor), SUSE (cosign, cpio, curl, expat, java-11-openjdk, ncurses, netty, netty-tcnative, opera, python-Django, python-Pillow, shadow, sudo, and wpa_supplicant), and Ubuntu ...
The Rust code being added to the kernel is documented using the usual rustdoc conventions; that documentation is now available on kernel.org in formatted form. There is also the linux-next version of the documentation for Rust code that will land in the kernel soon.
vendredi 16 août 2024, 15:07
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (389-ds-base, dotnet8.0, python3.13, roundcubemail, thunderbird, and tor), Mageia (roundcubemail), Oracle (.NET 8.0, bind and bind-dyndb-ldap, bind9.16, container-tools:ol8, edk2, firefox, gnome-shell, grafana, httpd:2.4, jose,...
jeudi 15 août 2024, 16:14
The kernel's memory-management developers have been busy in recent times; it can be hard to keep up with all that has been happening in this core area. In an attempt to catch up, here is a look at recent work affecting tiered-memory systems, underutilized huge pages, and...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8), Debian (flatpak), Fedora (389-ds-base, dotnet8.0, and roundcubemail), Red Hat (bind9.16, firefox, python-setuptools, and thunderbird), Slackware (dovecot), SUSE (389-ds, curl, kernel, kernel-firmware,...
Linux hardware vendor System76 started promoting its work on a Rust-based, Wayland desktop environment for its Pop!_OS Ubuntu-derivative distribution almost two years ago. On August 8, the company released an alpha version of the COSMIC desktop environment for users to test...
mercredi 14 août 2024, 16:24
Three new stable kernels have been released: 6.10.5, 6.6.46, and 6.1.105. As usual, they contain important fixes all over the kernel tree.
Rust is intended to let programmers write safer code. But compilers are not omniscient, and writing Rust code that interfaces with hardware (or that works with memory outside of Rust's lifetime paradigm) requires, at some point, the programmer's assurance that some...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base), Debian (ffmpeg), Fedora (chromium), Red Hat (.NET 8.0, container-tools:rhel8, edk2, firefox, gnome-shell, grafana, jose, kernel, kernel-rt, krb5, open-vm-tools, orc, pcs, poppler, python-urllib3, and wget), SUSE...
mardi 13 août 2024, 19:22
Markdown editors are a dime a dozen. Cheaper than that, actually, since many of them are open‑source software. Despite the sheer number of options, finding an editor that has all of the features that one might want can be tricky. For some users, Zettlr might be the right...
The PostgreSQL project has released beta versions of PostgreSQL 17 containing several interesting security and usability improvements, alongside the usual performance improvements and bug fixes. If the release proceeds according to the usual timeline, the full release of...
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