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Sre, 04/27/2022 - 15:19
As was recently
reported here, the Fedora
project has been considering dropping support for legacy BIOS systems in
upcoming releases. The idea was controversial at best, and the
minutes from the April 26 FESCo meeting
show that it has been rejected, for now at least. The BIOS SIG will be
asked for a new plan for BIOS support in Fedora.
Sre, 04/27/2022 - 15:11
Version 4.0 of the
Yocto
Project distribution builder is out. Changes
include a move to the 5.15 kernel, reproducibility fixes, improved
overlayfs support, numerous security updates, and a long list of new recipes.
Sre, 04/27/2022 - 14:11
Security updates have been issued by Mageia (virtualbox), Red Hat (container-tools:2.0, container-tools:3.0, gzip, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, mariadb:10.3, mariadb:10.5, maven-shared-utils, polkit, vim, xmlrpc-c, and zlib), Scientific Linux (maven-shared-utils), SUSE (ant, go1.17, go1.18, kernel, and xen), and Ubuntu (fribidi, git, libcroco, libsepol, linux, linux-gcp, linux-ibm, linux-lowlatency, openjdk-17, and openjdk-lts).
Tor, 04/26/2022 - 23:23
Python's
super()
built-in function can be somewhat confusing, as highlighted by a huge
python-ideas thread that we
started looking
at last week. It is used by methods in class hierarchies to access
methods and attributes in a parent class, but exactly
which class
that super() resolves to is perhaps a bit unclear in multiple-inheritance hierarchies.
The discussion in the second "half" of the thread further highlighted some
lesser-known parts of the language.
Tor, 04/26/2022 - 13:05
Version 19 of the
Android-based LineageOS distribution has been released.
With that said, we have been working extremely hard since Android
12’s release last October to port our features to this new version
of Android. Thanks to our hard work adapting to Google’s fairly
large changes in Android 11, we were able to rebase our changes
onto Android 12 much more efficiently. This led to a lot of time to
spend on cool new features, as well as adapt our additions to
Android 12’s new Material You design language!
Beyond the move to Android 12, this release includes improvements to a lot
of apps, a new setup wizard, and more. Less happily, this release has had
to leave a lot of older devices behind; a device must be able to run a 4.9
or newer kernel to be able to run LineageOS 19.
Tor, 04/26/2022 - 13:04
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg), Fedora (htmldoc, moby-engine, plantuml, and zchunk), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, and kernel), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-openjdk), Scientific Linux (java-1.8.0-openjdk), Slackware (freerdp), SUSE (kernel, mutt, SUSE Manager Client Tools, and xen), and Ubuntu (barbican and git).
Pon, 04/25/2022 - 15:41
The kernel
gained support for the TLS
protocol in the 4.13 release, which came out in September 2017. That
support is incomplete, though, in that it does not provide the kernel with
a way to initiate a TLS connection on its own. Instead, user space creates
a socket and performs the TLS handshake before handing the socket to the
kernel, which can then transfer data using TLS. The situation may be about
to change as a result of
this
patch series from Chuck Lever — though user space will still need to
remain in the picture.
Pon, 04/25/2022 - 14:53
Dave Täht has put together
a summary of the
state of fair queuing and the fight against bufferbloat in general.
On a very positive note, while it might seem the negatives are
overwhelming in the list above, I’m confident that there are
billions of devices for which fq_codel is doing a good job. I’m
confident there is a rising tide of clued system administrators and
users applying smart queue management in the right places at the
right times. There’s more than enough products on the market
already that have the right stuff in them to make better networks a
matter of merely recognising the problem and applying the fix.
Pon, 04/25/2022 - 13:01
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (kernel, kernel-headers, kernel-tools, libinput, podman-tui, and vim), Mageia (git, gzip/xz, libdxfrw, libinput, librecad, and openscad), and SUSE (dnsmasq, git, libinput, libslirp, libxml2, netty, podofo, SDL, SDL2, and tomcat).
Pon, 04/25/2022 - 03:49
The
5.18-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. "Fairly slow and calm week - which makes me just suspect
that the other shoe will drop at some point. But maybe things are just
going really well this release. It's bound to happen _occasionally_, after
all."
Pet, 04/22/2022 - 19:23
Subsystem maintainers routinely use
git
request-pull as part of the
process of sending work upstream. Normally, the result includes a list of
commits included in the request and a nice
diffstat that shows which files will be touched and how much of each will
be changed;
examples
abound on the kernel mailing lists. Occasionally, though, a repository with a relatively
complicated development history will yield a massive diffstat containing a
great deal of unrelated work. The result looks ugly and obscures what the
pull request is actually doing. This document describes what is happening
and how to fix things up; it is derived from The Wisdom of Linus Torvalds,
which has been posted numerous times over the years (
example 1,
example 2).
Pet, 04/22/2022 - 14:15
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (composer, golang-x-crypto, rubygem-nokogiri, wavpack, xen, and xz) and SUSE (dnsmasq, openjpeg, swtpm, tomcat, and xen).
Pet, 04/22/2022 - 08:30
OpenBSD 7.1 has been released. The list of changes and new features is
long, as usual; see the full text, below, for all the details.
Čet, 04/21/2022 - 22:12
The Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release, codenamed "Jammy Jellyfish", is now available. It comes in several editions (Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core) and multiple flavors (Ubuntu Budgie, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE,
UbuntuStudio, and Xubuntu). Lots more information can be found in the
release notes.
Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS gains significant usability, battery and performance
improvements with GNOME 42. It features GNOME power profiles and streamlined
workspace transitions alongside significant optimisations which can double
the desktop frame rate on Intel and Raspberry Pi graphics drivers.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the first LTS release where the entire recent Raspberry
Pi device portfolio is supported, from the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2W to the
Raspberry Pi 4. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS adds Rust for memory-safe systems-level
programming. It also moves to OpenSSL v3, with new cryptographic algorithms
for elevated security.
Čet, 04/21/2022 - 17:10
The Debian project leader election has completed and Jonathan Carter has been reelected for his third term. For more information, see the
Debian vote page. We
looked at the candidates back in March.
Čet, 04/21/2022 - 16:03
The world of music and audio production is largely dominated by
proprietary software vendors. Among them,
Steinberg stands out as a company
that created some of the most-used software, including the
Cubase and
Nuendo digital audio
workstations. Steinberg is also known as the creator of the VST plugin API
that, largely due to its licensing policy, has irritated developers enough to
inspire multiple attempts at creating an open-source alternative. Even now,
when the VST3 SDK is
available under the
GPLv3 license, the way the company exercises its control over the SDK
keeps pushing developers away toward other open-source solutions.
This is an introduction to open-source plugin
APIs for musicians and sound engineers alike. It focuses on the options in
the larger ecosystem and how their shortcomings led to the creation of new
alternatives with liberal licensing.
Čet, 04/21/2022 - 15:09
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (frr, grafana, gzip, and pdns), Oracle (java-11-openjdk), Red Hat (java-11-openjdk and kernel), Scientific Linux (java-11-openjdk), SUSE (dcraw, GraphicsMagick, gzip, kernel, nbd, netty, qemu, SDL, and xen), and Ubuntu (libinput, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.13, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.13, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.13, linux-hwe-5.13, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.13, linux-raspi, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-dell300x, linux-gcp, inux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-snapdragon, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-azure-fde, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke, linux-gke-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, and linux-oem-5.14).
Čet, 04/21/2022 - 13:18
The OpenWrt
21.02.3
and
19.07.10
updates have been released. These updates contain some security fixes and
improved device support. It's noting that this is the last 19.07 update:
OpenWrt 19.07.10 is the final release of the 19.07 release branch,
this branch is now end of life and we will not fix problems on this
branch any more, not even severe security problems. We encourage
all users still using OpenWrt 19.07 to upgrade to OpenWrt 21.02 or
more recent OpenWrt versions.
Router distributions are easy to forget about; now might be a good time to
check any relevant systems and, if needed, doing an upgrade.
Čet, 04/21/2022 - 01:30
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