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Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by Ubuntu Linux, which was introduced over 10 years ago in version 21.04.

Linux kernel 6.12 is one of the most significant releases of the year, delivering a feature nearly 20 years in the making: true real-time computing.

Kneejerk announcement or a serious plan, time will tell.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/25426678

This is not to be confused with systemd_bsod, which has a similar function but fails in scenarios that crash user space, unlike DRM_Panic.

A two-line comment about “various compliance requirements” spurred questions about sanctions policy and procedure on the Linux kernel mailing list.

Linux Creator Linus Torvalds recently expressed frustration with change proposals to the Linux kernel that are only "required" due to faulty hardware. Phoronix notes that Torvalds ranted on the Linux kernel mailing list over the last week, saying that buggy hardware should not be Linux's problem, suggesting kernel developers just say "no" and see what the "hardware people" say.

20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 1) par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Asahi requires four translation layers to get x86 Windows games to work on Apple Silicon.

Yesterday when announcing the Linux 6.12-rc2 kernel, Linus Torvalds asked that the kernel maintainers do a better job moving forward with their commit messages.

SteamOS is built on top of Arch, and Valve is now providing a build service infrastructure and secure signing enclave for Arch.

Learning to love a Linux system that's more of a workhorse than an adventure.

Historic 4-bit microprocessor from 1971 can execute Linux commands over days or weeks.

Linus Torvalds says that despite longstanding reports of burnout in the open source realm, Linux is as strong as ever.

The current maintainer hopes to maintain support until 2029.

This is like vi vs Emacs with 'religious overtones,’ project chief laughs

Now you can run your space laser or audio production without specialty patches.

René Rebe, a 25-year veteran of Free and Open-Source Software development, was swatted and taken in for questioning.

How long can the C languages maintain their primacy in the kernel?

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/30414136

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Wedson removing himself as maintainer of the Rust for Linux project.

Linux Desktop Market Share Climbs to 4.45%

The Linux kernel itself can already boot quite fast but with a simple one-line patch another ~0.035 seconds will be able to be shaved off the boot time.

Task is a task runner / build tool that aims to be simpler and easier to use than, for example, GNU Make.

Since it's written in Go, Task is just a single binary and has no other dependencies, which means you don't need to mess with any complicated install setups just to use a build tool.

Once installed, you just need to describe your build tasks using a simple YAML schema in a file called Taskfile.yml

Fedora has an ableism problem but woe to you if you point it out.

The Linux kernel community has sadly lost one of its longtime, prolific contributors to the wireless (WiFi) drivers.

KDE 6.1 is released today, now we begin the patient wait for the distros to update their mirrors with the latest version.