Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released [LWN.net] ( lwn.net )
Gentoo bans AI-created contributions ( lwn.net )
The race to replace Redis [LWN.net] ( lwn.net )
A backdoor in xz (current versions are impacted) ( lwn.net )
TL;DR: Update immediately, especially if SSH is enabled. xz versions 5.6.0 & 5.6.1 are impacted. The article contains links to each distro's specific instructions of what to do....
A modest update to Qubes OS ( lwn.net )
Villa: Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL? ( lwn.net )
Luis Villa writes about the recent ruling in the Software Freedom Conservancy's GPL-violation lawsuit against Vizio, wherein the judge refused to agree that the SFC lacks standing to sue.
The early days of Linux ( lwn.net )
The 6.7 kernel has been released ( lwn.net )
Some of the headline features in this release are: the removal of support for the Itanium architecture, the first part of the futex2 API, futex support in io_uring, the BPF exceptions mechanism, the bcachefs filesystem, the TCP authentication option, the kernel samepage merging smart scan mode, and networking support for the...
The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 2 ( lwn.net )
Part 1: lwn.net/SubscriberLink/955376/b3fba3bbfabbc411/
The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 1 [LWN.net] ( lwn.net )
Rust for Linux — in space [LWN.net] ( lwn.net )
An EEVDF CPU scheduler for Linux [LWN.net] ( lwn.net )
Identity management for WireGuard [LWN.net] ( lwn.net )
This post overviews several self-hostable management systems that enable one to configure multiple clients and tunnels via wireguard. It gives a nice comparison between them, I learned a bit about how they compare and overlap.
The "StackRot" kernel vulnerability [LWN.net] ( lwn.net )
AlmaLinux answers to Red Hat about their change on RHEL updates ( lwn.net )
All started with some RHEL 8 updates that weren't published on CentOS Git...
Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability ( lwn.net )
Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability ( lwn.net )
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Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability [LWN.net] ( lwn.net )
This smells like IBM a lot.