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mardi 12 novembre 2024, 21:21
Over the years, there has been steady progress in adding security features to compilers and other tools to assist with hardening the Linux kernel (and, of course, other programs). In something of a tradition in the toolchains track at the Linux Plumbers Conference, Kees Cook ...
Garrett LeSage has written an in-depth article for Fedora Magazine about a new web-based user interface (UI) for Fedora's Anaconda installer, planned to ship with Fedora 42. The article looks at the rationale for moving from GTK 3 to a web-based UI, provides a number of...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gstreamer1-plugins-base), Debian (chromium, ghostscript, libarchive, mpg123, ruby-saml, and symfony), Fedora (buildah and podman), Red Hat (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, podman, skopeo, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland),...
lundi 11 novembre 2024, 16:24
What have been the most significant security-related incidents for the open-source community in 2024 (so far)? Marta Rybczyńska recently ran a poll and got some interesting results. At the 2024 Open Source Summit Japan, she presented those results along with some commentary ...
Longtime Debian and Tor developer, Jérémy Bobbio—perhaps better known as 'Lunar'—died on November 8. Lunar was one of the founders of the reproducible builds movement and more recently had been working with Software Heritage. More information and tributes in French can ...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (podman), Debian (guix, libarchive, and nss), Fedora (expat, iaito, opendmarc, python-werkzeug, radare2, squid, and xorg-x11-server), Mageia (htmldoc, libheif, nspr, nss, firefox & rust, python-urllib3, python-werkzeug, quictls, ...
Linus has released 6.12-rc7 for testing. 'No big surprises, and I think everything is on track for a final 6.12 release next weekend.'
vendredi 8 novembre 2024, 19:49
Back In Time is a GPL-2.0-licensed backup tool based on rsync and written in Python. It has both graphical and command-line interfaces, and supports backups to local disks or over SSH. Back In Time was originally written by Oprea Dan and released in 2009. The tool has been...
Greg Kroah-Hartman has shared another seven stable kernel updates: 6.6.60, 6.11.7, 6.1.116, 5.15.171, 5.10.229, 5.4.285, and 4.19.323.
Fedora Linux, as a rule, handles version upgrades reasonably well. However, there are times when users may want to do a fresh installation rather than an upgrade but preserve existing users and data under /home. This is a scenario that the Fedora installer, currently, does...
Arthur Cohen has posted a detailed introduction to the gccrs project on the Rust Blog, seemingly with the goal of convincing the Rust community about the value of the project. Likewise, many GCC plugins are used for increasing the safety of critical projects such as the...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (edk2), Debian (webkit2gtk), Fedora (thunderbird), Oracle (bzip2, container-tools:ol8, edk2, go-toolset:ol8, libtiff, python-idna, python3.11, and python3.12), Slackware (expat), and SUSE (apache2, govulncheck-vulndb, grub2,...
jeudi 7 novembre 2024, 17:34
Flexible arrays — arrays that are declared as the final member of a structure and which have a size determined at run time — have long drawn the attention of developers seeking to harden the kernel against buffer-overflow vulnerabilities. These arrays have reliably been...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bcc, bpftrace, bzip2, container-tools:rhel8, grafana-pcp, haproxy, kernel, kernel-rt, krb5, libtiff, python-gevent, python3.11, python3.11-urllib3, python3.12, python3.12-urllib3, xmlrpc-c, and xorg-x11-server and...
mercredi 6 novembre 2024, 17:35
Image-based Linux distributions have seen increasing popularity, recently. They promise reliability and security, but pose packaging problems for existing distributions. Ryan Lahfa and Niklas Sturm spoke about the work that NixOS has done to enable an image-based workflow at ...
Man pages maintainer Alejandro Colomar announced in September that he was suspending his work due to a lack of support. He has now let it be known that funding has been found for the next year at least: We've been talking for a couple of months, and we have already agreed...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libtiff), Debian (context, libheif, and thunderbird), Fedora (php-tcpdf, syncthing, and thunderbird), Gentoo (EditorConfig core C library, Flatpak, Neat VNC, and Ubiquiti UniFi), Oracle (bcc, bpftrace, grafana-pcp, haproxy,...
mardi 5 novembre 2024, 16:17
Version 2.1.0 of the LXQt lightweight Qt desktop environment has been released. The highlight of this release is support for multiple Wayland compositors: Through its new component lxqt-wayland-session, LXQt 2.1.0 supports 7 Wayland sessions (with Labwc, KWin, Wayfire,...
Joshua Liebow-Feeser took to the stage at RustConf to describe the methodology that his team uses to encode arbitrary constraints in the Rust type system when working on the Fuchsia operating system (slides). The technique is not unknown to the Rust community, but...
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