- newUbuntu 21.04 released
The Ubuntu21.04 distribution release is available. "Today, Canonicalreleased Ubuntu 21.04 with native Microsoft Active Directory integration,Wayland graphics by default, and a Flutter application developmentSDK. Separately, Canonical and Microso…
- 2 hours ago 22 Apr 21, 2:55pm -
- new[$] Toward signed BPF programs
The kernel's BPF virtual machine is versatile;it is possible to load BPF programs into the kernel to carry outa large (and growing) set of tasks. The growing body of BPF code canreasonably bethought of as kernel code in its own right. But, whil…
- 3 hours ago 22 Apr 21, 1:52pm -
- newSecurity updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (thunderbird and wordpress), Fedora (curl, firefox, mediawiki, mingw-binutils, os-autoinst, and rpm-ostree), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk and java-11-openjdk), SUSE (kernel, pcp, and tomcat6), and Ubuntu (lin…
- 4 hours ago 22 Apr 21, 1:17pm -
- new[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 22, 2021
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 22, 2021 is available.
- 16 hours ago 22 Apr 21, 12:41am -
- new[$] Intentionally buggy commits for fame—and papers
A buggy patchposted to the linux-kernel mailing list in early April was apparently thelast straw for Greg Kroah-Hartman as it led to the planned reversion of a whole slew ofcommits with one thing in common: their origin at the University ofMinne…
- 19 hours ago 21 Apr 21, 10:00pm -
- Three stable kernels
Stable kernels 5.11.16, 5.10.32, and 5.4.114 have been released. They containimportant fixes and users should upgrade.
- 1 day ago 21 Apr 21, 3:32pm -
- Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, php-pear, wordpress, and zabbix), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk and java-11-openjdk), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, kernel, and kpatch-patch), Scientific Linux (java-1.8.0-openjdk…
- 1 day ago 21 Apr 21, 3:24pm -
- [$] Rust heads into the kernel?
In a lengthymessage to the linux-kernel mailing list, Miguel Ojeda "introduced" theRust for Linux project. Itwas likely not the first time that most kernel developers had heard of theeffort; there was an extensive discussionof the project at th…
- 2 days ago 21 Apr 21, 1:09am -
- In the trenches with Thomas Gleixner (Linux.com)
Linux.com has published aninterview with Thomas Gleixner with a focus on the realtime preemptionwork. "The approach to funding these kinds of projects reminds me of the Mikado Game, which is popular in Europe, where the first player who picks up t…
- 2 days ago 20 Apr 21, 5:15pm -
- Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (xorg-server), Fedora (CImg, gmic, leptonica, mingw-binutils, mingw-glib2, mingw-leptonica, mingw-python3, nodejs, and seamonkey), openSUSE (irssi, kernel, nextcloud-desktop, python-django-registration, and…
- 2 days ago 20 Apr 21, 3:13pm -