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The bpftop tool [LWN.net]
Netflix has announced the release of a tool called bpftop to help with the performance optimization...
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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (engrampa and libgit2), Fedora (libxls, perl-Spreadsheet-ParseXLSX, and wpa_supplicant), Gentoo...
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[$] A RDRAND followup
In a recent episode, "Pitchforks for RDSEED", we learned that there was some uncertainty around whether...
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Incus 0.6 released [LWN.net]
Version 0.6 of Incus, a fork of LXD, has been released. This release includes a number...
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[$] Treating documentation as code
At FOSDEM 2024, the "Tool the docs" devroom hosted several talks about free and open-source tools for...
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Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gnutls28, iwd, libjwt, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, expat, mingw-expat,...
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Kernel prepatch 6.8-rc6 [LWN.net]
Linus has released 6.8-rc6 for testing. Last week I said that I was hoping things would...
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Git 2.44.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 2.44.0 of the Git source-code management system has been released. There is a long list...
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[$] Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea
The world of open-source "forges" is becoming a little more fragmented. The Forgejo project is a...
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Lots of new stable kernels [LWN.net]
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of seven new stable kernels: 6.7.6, 6.6.18, 6.1.79, 5.15.149, 5.10.210,...
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Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, imagemagick, and iwd), Fedora (chromium, firefox, and pdns-recursor),...
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Stenberg: DISPUTED, not REJECTED [LWN.net]
The Curl project has previously had problems with CVEs issued for things that are not security...
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[$] When ELF notes reveal too much
The Linux kernel uses a number of hardening techniques to try to protect itself against compromise;...
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Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (python-pillow), Debian (firefox-esr and imagemagick), Fedora (kernel, mbedtls, rust-asyncgit,...
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 22, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 22, 2024 is available.
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[$] Sudo and its alternatives
Sudo is a ubiquitous tool for running commands with the privileges of another user on Unix-like...
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[$] A proposal for shared memory in BPF programs
Alexei Starovoitov introduced a patch series for the Linux kernel on February 6 to add bpf_arena,...
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RawTherapee 5.10 released [LWN.net]
Version 5.10 of the RawTherapee raw photo editor is out. The list of changes is long,...
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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (linux-firmware and python-reportlab), Debian (unbound), Fedora (freeglut and syncthing),...
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The "KeyTrap" DNS vulnerability [LWN.net]
DNS resolvers (those that handle DNSSEC, at least) are almost uniformly vulnerable to an exploit that...
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[$] A modest update to Qubes OS
Qubes OS is a security-focused desktop Linux distribution built on Fedora Linux and the Xen hypervisor....
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Righi: Writing a scheduler for Linux in Rust that runs in user-space [LWN.net]
Andrea Righi has started a blog series on writing a user-space CPU scheduler with the BPF-based...
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Hare programming language 0.24.0 released [LWN.net]
Drew DeVault announced the first numbered release of the Hare programming language on February 16. Many...
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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (freeglut, hugin, libmodsecurity, qemu, rust-asyncgit, rust-bat, rust-cargo-c, rust-eza, rust-git-absorb,...