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mardi 5 mars 2024, 13:49
The kernel's memory-management subsystem is built on the concept of 'zones', which were initially added to describe the physical characteristics of the memory pages contained within them. Over time, zones have taken on more of a policy-related role as well. With a patch set...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (yard), Oracle (buildah and kernel), Red Hat (389-ds:1.4, edk2, frr, gnutls, haproxy, libfastjson, libX11, postgresql:12, sqlite, squid, squid:4, tcpdump, and tomcat), SUSE (apache2-mod_auth_openidc and glibc), and Ubuntu...
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lundi 4 mars 2024, 16:38
It has long been possible to run multiple Python interpreters in the same process — via the C API, but not within the language itself. Eric Snow has been working to make this ability available in the language for many years. Now, Snow has published PEP 734 ('Multiple...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr and thunderbird), Fedora (dotnet6.0, dotnet8.0, and mod_auth_openidc), Gentoo (Blender, Tox, and UltraJSON), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (edk2), SUSE (sendmail and zabbix), and Ubuntu (nodejs and thunderbird).
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The 6.8-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. So we finally have a week where things have calmed down, and in fact 6.8-rc7 is smaller than usual at this point in time. So if that keeps up (but that's a fairly notable 'if') I won't feel like I need to do an rc8 this...
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dimanche 3 mars 2024, 14:39
The 6.7.8 and 6.6.20 stable kernel updates have been released. They contain a single patch addressing an ntfs3 filesystem build error introduced in the previous round of updates.
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vendredi 1 mars 2024, 17:30
One of the outcomes of the (extremely) lengthy discussion about using Common Lisp features in Emacs Lisp (Elisp), which we looked at back in November, was an effort to start removing some of those uses from Emacs. The rewrite of some of the Elisp in Emacs that uses the...
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On February 29, the musl project announced release 1.2.5, including support for loongarch64 and riscv32. This release also contains support for the statx(), preadv2(), and pwritev2() system calls.
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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of seven new stable kernels: 6.7.7, 6.6.19, 6.1.80, 5.15.150, 5.10.211, 5.4.270, and 4.19.308. As usual, they contain many important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
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Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox and thunderbird), Debian (gsoap, python-django, and wireshark), Fedora (dotnet7.0 and gifsicle), Mageia (sympa), Oracle (postgresql:10, postgresql:12, thunderbird, and unbound), Red Hat (kpatch-patch, python-pillow, and...
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jeudi 29 février 2024, 19:10
Over on the Collabora blog, Faith Ekstrand has announced that the NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA devices will be part of Mesa 24.1 and is ready for real-world use. It should be appearing in Linux distributions later this year. Back in october, I announced that NVK had reached ...
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Netflix has announced the release of a tool called bpftop to help with the performance optimization of BPF programs in the kernel: bpftop provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs. It displays the average execution runtime, events per second, and estimated ...
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The Linux kernel follows a monolithic design, and that brings a well-known problem: all code in the kernel has access to the entirety of the kernel's address space. As a result, a bug in (for example) an obscure driver may well be exploitable to wreak havoc on core-kernel...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (moodle), Red Hat (kernel, kernel-rt, and postgresql:15), Slackware (wpa_supplicant), SUSE (Java and rear27a), and Ubuntu (libcpanel-json-xs-perl, libuv1, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4,...
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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 29, 2024 is available.
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mercredi 28 février 2024, 20:24
Tails 6.0 is now available. Based on Debian, Tails is a portable operating system designed to run from a USB stick and help users avoid surveillance and censorship. This release updates most Tails applications, and includes important security and usability improvements. One...
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It's been nearly 10 years since KDE Plasma 5, which is the last major release of the desktop. On February 28 the project announced its 'mega release' of KDE Plasma 6, KDE Frameworks 6, and KDE Gear 24.02 — all based on the Qt 6 development framework. This release focuses heav...
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The Open Collective Foundation is an organization created to provide legal and financial services for non-profit projects, many of which are associated with free software. Projects hosted there are now beginning to report that the Open Collective Foundation will be shutting...
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Security updates have been issued by Debian (knot-resolver and wpa), Fedora (chromium, kernel, thunderbird, and yarnpkg), Mageia (c-ares), Oracle (firefox, kernel, opensc, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, and thunderbird), Red Hat (edk2, gimp:2.8, and kernel), SUSE (bind,...
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mardi 27 février 2024, 22:24
Nix and Guix are a pair of unusual package managers based on the idea of declarative configurations. Their associated Linux distributions — NixOS and the Guix System — take the idea further by allowing users to define a single centralized configuration describing the...
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