2024-12-20 23:38:17
Version 2024.12 of the Debian-based Grml live Linux system for system administrators has been released. Grml 2024.12 uses packages from the upcoming Debian 13 ("trixie") release. It drops support for 32-bit x86 PCs and gains support for 64-bit ARM CPUs. See the release notes for a full list of changes and new features.
2024-12-20 23:15:42
Back in 2022, Josh Triplett presented a plan to implement a "spawn new process" functionality in the io_uring subsystem. There was a fair amount of interest at the time, but developers got distracted, and the work did not progress. Now, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi has returned with a patch series updating and improving Triplett's work. While interest in this functionality remains, it may still take some time before it is ready for merging into the mainline.
2024-12-20 22:24:44
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and gunicorn), Fedora (jupyterlab), Oracle (bluez, containernetworking-plugins, edk2:20220126gitbb1bba3d77, edk2:20240524, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, kernel, libsndfile, libsndfile:1.0.31, mpg123, mpg123:1.32.9, pam, python3.11-urllib3, skopeo, tuned, and unbound:1.16.2), SUSE (avahi, docker, emacs, govulncheck-vulndb, haproxy, kernel, libmozjs-128-0, python-grpcio, python310-xhtml2pdf, sudo, and tailscale), and Ubuntu (dpdk, linux-hwe-5.15, and linux-iot).
2024-12-20 02:00:23
The 6.12.6, 6.6.67, 6.1.121, 5.15.175, 5.10.232, and 5.4.288 stable kernels have been released. As usual, they contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
2024-12-20 00:00:30
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bluez, edk2:20220126gitbb1bba3d77, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, kernel, kernel-rt, mpg123, php:8.2, python3.11-urllib3, and tuned), Fedora (ColPack, glibc, golang-github-chainguard-dev-git-urls, golang-github-task, icecat, python-nbdime, python3.13, and python3.14), Mageia (kernel, kmod-xtables-addons, kmod-virtualbox, dwarves and kernel-linus), Red Hat (gstreamer1-plugins-base and gstreamer1-plugins-good), SUSE (curl, emacs, git-bug, glib2, helm, kernel, and traefik2), and Ubuntu (gst-plugins-base1.0, gst-plugins-good1.0, gstreamer1.0, libvpx, linux-gcp, phpunit, and yara).
2024-12-19 23:04:59
The Fedora Engineering Steering Council (FESCo) has made a series of missteps in deciding to revoke a longtime Fedora contributor's provenpackager status. FESCo made the decision during a closed session, based on private complaints. It then publicly announced its decision, including the contributor's name, while only supplying a vague account of the contributor's actions. This has left the Fedora community with more questions than answers, and raised a number of complaints about the transparency of FESCo's process. In addition, the sequence of events has sparked discussions about package ownership, as well as when and how it's appropriate to push changes to packages that a developer doesn't own.