~lwn | Bookmarks (344)
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[$] A change in direction for security-module stacking?
The long-running effort to complete the work on stacking (or composing) the Linux security modules (LSMs)...
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Fedora 40 released [LWN.net]
The Fedora 40 distribution has been released. See the "what's new" pages for Fedora Workstation and...
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[$] Rust for embedded Linux kernels
The Rust programming language, it is hoped, will bring a new level of safety to the...
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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (glibc and samba), Fedora (chromium, cjson, mingw-python-idna, and pgadmin4),...
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The Open Home Foundation launches [LWN.net]
The Open Home Foundation has announced its existence as a home and support resource for free...
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Andreas Tille elected as Debian project leader [LWN.net]
The Debian project leader election results are in and Andreas Tille has been elected. In a...
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[$] Linus and Dirk chat about AI, XZ, hardware, and more
One of the mainstays of the the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit is the "fireside chat"...
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Hutterer: udev-hid-bpf: quickstart tooling to fix your HID devices with eBPF [LWN.net]
Peter Hutterer announces udev-hid-bpf, a tool to facilitate the loading of BPF programs that make human-input...
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Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox and java-1.8.0-openjdk), Debian (chromium, flatpak, guix, openjdk-11, openjdk-17,...
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Kernel prepatch 6.9-rc5 [LWN.net]
Linus has released 6.9-rc5 for testing. But if you ignore those oddities, it all looks pretty...
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[$] Weighted memory interleaving and new system calls
Gregory Price recently posted a patch set that adds support for weighted memory interleaving — allowing...
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Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gnutls, java-17-openjdk, mod_http2, and squid), Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (editorconfig,...
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[$] Gentoo bans AI-created contributions
Gentoo Council member Michał Górny posted an RFC to the gentoo-dev mailing list in late February...
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[$] Warning about WARN_ON()
Kernel developers, like conscientious developers for many projects, will often include checks in the code for...
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Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, jetty9, libdatetime-timezone-perl, tomcat10, and tzdata), Fedora (cockpit, filezilla,...
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 18, 2024
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 18, 2024 is available.
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[$] Managing to-do lists on the command line with Taskwarrior
Managing to-do lists is something of a universal necessity. While some people handle them mentally or...
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Four more stable kernels [LWN.net]
The 6.8.7, 6.6.28, 6.1.87, and 5.15.156 stable kernel updates have all been released.
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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (apache2 and cockpit), Fedora (firefox, kernel, mbedtls, python-cbor2, wireshark,...
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[$] Identifying dependencies used via dlopen()
The recent XZ backdoor has sparked a lot of discussion about how the open-source community links...
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[$] Fedora 40 firms up for release
Fedora 40 Beta was released on March 26, and the final release is nearing completion. So far, the release...
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PuTTY 0.81 security release [LWN.net]
Version 0.81 of the PuTTY SSH client is out with a fix for CVE-2024-31497; some users...
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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (php7.4 and php8.2), Fedora (c-ares), Mageia (python-pillow and upx),...
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OpenSSF and OpenJS warn about social-engineering attacks [LWN.net]
The Open Source Security Foundation and the OpenJS Foundation have jointly posted a warning about XZ-like...