Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) released [LWN.net] (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...
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....
Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice (as fedora maintainer) (lwn.net)
Cranelift code generation comes to Rust (lwn.net)
Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
This smells like IBM a lot.
Red Hat cutting back RHEL source availability (lwn.net)
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The race to replace Redis [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
HashiCorp's license change [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
The early days of Linux (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.
RedHat dropping support for LibreOffice (lwn.net)
I get that LibreOffice isn't really needed on a server or Windows based enterprise; but i take it as this means RHEL is going to remove these packages from official repositories....
A memory model for Rust code in the kernel [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
An EEVDF CPU scheduler for Linux [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)
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.
PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model (lwn.net)
Next steps for Rust in the Linux kernel (lwn.net)
Securing Git repositories with gittuf (lwn.net)
Rust for Linux — in space [LWN.net] (lwn.net)
Reducing kernel-maintainer burnout (lwn.net)
What is really needed, [Linus Torvalds] said, is to find ways to get away from the email patch model, which is not really working anymore. He feels that way now, even though he is “an old-school email person”.