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Asahi Linux 7.3 progress report
The Asahi Linux developers have put out a new report on their progress toward a Linux distribution for Apple devices. Some time ago, we were made aware of multiple attempts to exploit our permissive licensing to hijack our work, with a direct view to replacing the project and aggressively…
Amutable Foundations: A Technical Overview
Lennart Poettering, Michael Vogt, and Joaquim Rocha have put together a detailed overview of what the Amutable Operating System (AOS) and associated infrastructure will look like. The image-based OS approach enables us to enforce some very strict but powerful security properties, which elevate the…
Videos from XDC 2026 are available
Videos from the 2026 X.Org Developers Conference (XDC) are now available on YouTube . XDC was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 28-30.
[$] Locking down hibernation for the winter
When a computer hibernates, the kernel writes the contents of memory to disk and then shuts the system down. Resuming from hibernation involves reading that data back into memory, and then having the kernel pick up where it left off. Unfortunately, the kernel does not have any way to know that the…
Seven stable kernels with fixes for three Xen vulnerabilities
Hot on the heels of the previous two stable kernels , Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.3.3 , 6.18.62 , 6.12.116 , 6.6.162 , 6.1.192 , 5.15.225 , and 5.10.274 stable kernels. Each one only contains fixes for three use-after-free vulnerabilities announced today by the Xen…
Two stable kernels for Friday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 7.3.2 and 6.18.61 stable kernels. Each contains quite a few changes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cockpit-files, container-tools:rhel8, delve, gcc-toolset-12-binutils, gimp:2.8, glibc, go-toolset:rhel8, kernel, libfastjson, mariadb:10.3, mod_auth_openidc:2.3, mysql:8.0, php:8.0, pki-core:10.6 and pki-deps:10.6, squid:4, tang, tesseract…
[$] User namespaces + file capabilities = trouble
User namespaces are a key part of the kernel's toolkit for assembling containers; processes within a user namespace can appear to have full root access to the system while gaining no extra privileges in the wider system. At least, that is the intent. In practice, keeping privilege contained within…
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dpdk, httpd:2.4, kernel, kernel-rt, mysql:8.0, php:7.4, php:8.0, qt5, ruby:2.7, ruby:3.0, tesseract, webkit2gtk3, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Debian (imagemagick, puppet-agent, symfony, trapperkeeper-authorization-clojure, and xen), Fedora (3proxy…
Critical security vulnerability affects OpenSSH on Alpine Linux systems
Version 10.6p2 of OpenSSH has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability that affects Linux systems that use musl libc with PAM disabled, such as Alpine Linux . OpenSSH developer Damien Miller said : If you operate a Linux system that uses musl libc without PAM (Alpine Linux is…
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 5, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front : Kernel cells; Debian LLM reviews; glibc system-call wrappers; Binder in Rust; Kernel CVE flood; Fedora KDE and X11 removal; 7.4 merge window part two; Portable Python. Briefs : MTCP RCE; Bash security; XCPE botnet; Bazzite 45; Fedora 45; openSUSE…
[$] Plasma X11 session removal surprises some Fedora users
The KDE Project announced, in 2025, that Plasma 6.7 would be the last version of the desktop environment that would support X11 sessions. Those who keep up with KDE's announcements no doubt expected it when Plasma 6.8 dropped X11 support as promised. What seems to have come as a surprise, at least…
Bazzite 45 released
Version 45 of Bazzite , the image-based gaming distribution based on Fedora Linux, has been released. Notable changes in this release include a rebase to Fedora 45, updated Open Gaming Collective (OGC) kernels, support for Logitech TrueWheel devices, and more. LWN covered Bazzite in December 2025.
[$] Portable Python scripts with dependencies
A basic Python script is portable: it can be copied between machines with little concern about compatibility. A script that depends on third-party packages requires quite a bit more care and consideration, however. In 2023, PEP 723 ("Inline script metadata") introduced a standard for declaring a…
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cockpit, dpdk, fence-agents, firefox, freerdp, gimp, opentelemetry-collector, python-dns, qemu-kvm, and raptor2), Debian (apt and squid), Fedora (ags, apptainer, chromium, fractal, mingw-harfbuzz, mingw-qt5-qtwebkit, mingw-qt6-qt5compat…
OpenSUSE Leap 16.1
The openSUSE project has announced the release of openSUSE Leap 16.1. The release is notable for allowing both traditional installations and immutable images with transactional updates. While immutable images had previously been available for Leap Micro, they are now available across all platforms…
[$] LLM reviews for Debian's new queue spark debate
The Debian project has wrestled with the topic of LLM usage for years, which culminated in a general-resolution vote this August. The project voted in favor of the fifth, out of eight, option: " Responsible Use of Generative AI ". With the door open to LLM use, the DFSG, Licensing & New Packages…
Fedora Linux 45 released
Fedora Linux 45 has been released. This includes all editions: Fedora Workstation , Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop , Fedora Server , Fedora Cloud , Fedora CoreOS , and Fedora IoT , as well as the Atomic Desktops and Spins . This release adds support for installation on Stratis storage using Anaconda or…
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.16, firefox, freerdp, ghostscript, kernel, kernel-rt, libXi, perl-YAML:1.24, perl:5.32, pipewire, qt5-qtbase, redis:6, tomcat, and wireshark), Debian (chromium, git-annex, incus, kernel, and strongswan), Fedora (barman, erlang-hex_core…
[$] The second part of the 7.4 merge window
The 7.4 merge window, which closed on November 1, included a record-breaking 18,591 non-merge changesets. That is almost as many as the entire 7.3 development cycle, which had 18,765, itself a record breaker. Of those, 11,838 landed after the article covering the first part of the merge window…
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