2026-01-21 05:34:31
Konstantin Ryabitsev has put up a blog post about korgalore, a tool he has written to circumvent delivery problems experienced by kernel developers using the large, centralized email systems.
We cannot fix email delivery, but we can sidestep it entirely. Public-inbox archives like lore.kernel.org store all mailing list traffic in git repositories. In its simplest configuration, korgalore can shallow-clone these repositories directly and upload any new messages straight to your mailbox using the provider's API.
2026-01-21 04:45:46
One would assume that most LWN readers stopped running network-accessible telnet services some number of decades ago. For the rest of you, this security advisory from Simon Josefsson is worthy of note:
The telnetd server invokes /usr/bin/login (normally running as root) passing the value of the USER environment variable received from the client as the last parameter.If the client supplies a carefully crafted USER environment value being the string "-f root", and passes the telnet(1) -a or --login parameter to send this USER environment to the server, the client will be automatically logged in as root bypassing normal authentication processes.
2026-01-21 01:26:37
Mozilla has announced a repository with Firefox Nightly channel packages for RPM-based Linux distributions such as CentOS Stream, Fedora, and openSUSE. Mozilla has provided a Debian repository since 2023.
Note that this repository only includes the nightly builds of The firefox-nightly package. Mozilla is not providing stable builds as RPMs at this time. However, the package will not conflict with a distribution's regular firefox package; both packages can be installed at the same time for those who wish to test the nightly builds. See the blog post for instructions on setting up the repository.
2026-01-21 00:22:09
LWN has had a number of articles on immutable distributions,
such as Bluefin and
Bazzite, in recent years. These distributions have taken a variety of approaches, including
using
rpm-ostree, filesystem snapshots, and
bootable container (bootc) images. But those
approaches, especially the latter, lead to extra complexity for a user
attempting to install new software, instead of just
using the existing package manager.
AshOS (Any Snapshot Hierarchical OS) is an experimental AGPL-3-licensed
"meta-distribution
" that tried a different approach more in line with
traditional package management. Although the project is no longer updated,
it remains usable, and can still shed some light on a potential alternate path for users
worried about adopting bootc-based approaches.
2026-01-20 22:06:26
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gpsd-minimal, jmc, kernel, kernel-rt, and net-snmp), Debian (apache-log4j2 and dcmtk), Fedora (exim, gpsd, mysql8.0, mysql8.4, python-biopython, and rust-lru), Mageia (firefox, nss and thunderbird), Oracle (container-tools:rhel8, gpsd-minimal, jmc, kernel, net-snmp, and uek-kernel), Red Hat (net-snmp), SUSE (chromium, go, harfbuzz-devel, kernel, libsoup, rust1.91, rust1.92, and thunderbird), and Ubuntu (apache2, avahi, and python-urllib3).
2026-01-20 05:33:35
OzLabs is a collection of Australian
free-software developers that was, for most of its history, associated with
IBM. Members of OzLabs have included Hugh Blemings, Michael Ellerman, Ben
Herrenschmidt, Greg Lehey, Paul Mackerras, Martin Pool, Stephen Rothwell,
Rusty Russell, and Andrew Tridgell, among others. The OzLabs "about" page notes that, as
of January 2026, the last remaining OzLabs members have departed IBM.
"This brought to a close the Ozlabs association with IBM
". Thus
ends a quarter-century of development history.
(Thanks to Jon Masters).