- new[$] Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks
The Flatpak package format promises tobring "the future of apps on Linux", but a Linux distribution likeFedora already provides packages in its native format—and builtto its specifications. Flatpaks that come from upstream projects may ormay n…
- 10 hours ago 7 Feb 23, 8:58pm -
- newSecurity updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (graphite-web, openjdk-11, webkit2gtk, wpewebkit, and xorg-server), Mageia (advancecomp, apache, dojo, git, java/timezone, libtiff, libxpm, netatalk, nodejs-minimist, opusfile, python-django, python-future,…
- 16 hours ago 7 Feb 23, 2:57pm -
- Six new stable kernels
The most recent batch of stable kernels has been released: 6.1.10, 5.15.92, 5.10.167, 5.4.231, 4.19.272, and 4.14.305. Those updates contain a relatively smallnumber of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
- 2 days ago 6 Feb 23, 3:23pm -
- [$] A survey of free CAD systems
Computer-aided design (CAD) software is expensive to develop, which is agood reason to appreciate the existing free and open-source alternatives to someof the big names in the industry. This article takes a bird's-eye view at freeand open-sourc…
- 2 days ago 6 Feb 23, 3:19pm -
- Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libhtml-stripscripts-perl), Fedora (binwalk, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk, kernel, sudo, and syncthing), SUSE (syslog-ng), and Ubuntu (editorconfig-core, firefo…
- 2 days ago 6 Feb 23, 2:41pm -
- Kernel prepatch 6.2-rc7
The 6.2-rc7 kernel prepatch is out fortesting.So the 6.2 rc releases are continuing to be fairly small andcontrolled, to the point where normally I'd just say that this isthe last rc. But since I've stated multiple times that I'll do anrc8…
- 2 days ago 6 Feb 23, 12:06am -
- [$] Constant-time instructions and processor optimizations
Of all the attacks on cryptographic code, timing attacks may be among themost insidious. An algorithm that appears to be coded correctly, perhapseven with a formal proof of its correctness, may be undermined byinformation leaked as the result of…
- 5 days ago 3 Feb 23, 3:18pm -
- Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium and vim), Slackware (openssh), and Ubuntu (lrzip and tiff).
- 5 days ago 3 Feb 23, 2:32pm -
- The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 7.5 Community
Version 7.5 of the LibreOffice Community edition is now available. LibreOffice is, of course, the FOSS desktop office suite; version 7.5 brings new features to multiple parts of the tool, including major improvements to dark mode, better PDF export…
- 5 days ago 2 Feb 23, 9:52pm -
- Ekstrand: Exploring Rust for Vulkan drivers, part 1
Faith Ekstrand beginsan exploration of using the Rust language to write Vulkan graphicsdrivers.Whenever a Vulkan object is created or destroyed, the parent objectis passed to both the create and destroy functions. This ensuresthat the life…
- 6 days ago 2 Feb 23, 4:37pm -