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Released on September 15th, 2024, Linux kernel 6.11 introduced new features like a new driver subsystem to enable support upstream for Bluetooth/WLAN chips on Qualcomm platforms, getrandom() support to vDSO on x86 systems adding a new kind of mapping to mmap(2) that lets the kernel zero out pages anytime under memory pressure, and virtual CPU hotplug support for AArch64 (ARM64) ACPI systems.

The post Linux Kernel 6.11 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS appeared first on Linux Today.

The NVIDIA 565.77 graphics driver is here more than three months after the NVIDIA 560 release and re-enables the GLX_EXT_buffer_age OpenGL extension on Xwayland, adds support for mmap of exported DMA-BUF objects, and adds several new per-plane and per-CRTC vendor-specific properties to nvidia-drm, which Wayland compositors can use to program the GPU’s color pipeline for HDR hardware acceleration.

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A step closer to perfection! Discover the latest COSMIC Alpha 4 release with exciting updates to settings, apps, bug fixes, and more.

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Powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS and coming more than six months after Alpine Linux 3.20, the Alpine Linux 3.21 release introduces support for the latest GNOME 47, KDE Plasma 6.2, and LXQt 2.1 desktop environments, as well as initial support for the LoongArch64 architecture.

The post Alpine Linux 3.21 Released with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, Initial LoongArch64 Support appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn how to install Java on Ubuntu using package manager and the distribution package, as well as methods for managing multiple Java versions.

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System76 has announced the fourth alpha release of its Rust-based COSMIC desktop. New features in this version include the ability to set default applications, region and language settings, a new Accessibility applet, as well as support for variable refresh rate (VRR) in the cosmic-comp compositor and the display settings tool. See the blog post for a full list of fixes and performance improvements. LWN covered the first alpha release in August.

It has long been said that naming things is one of the hard things to do in computer science. That may be so, but it pales in comparison to the challenge of handling usernames properly in applications. This is especially true when multiple applications are involved, and they are all supposed to agree on what characters are, and are not, allowed. The Debian project is facing that problem right now, as two user-creation utilities disagreed about which names are allowable. A plan is in place to sort this out before the release of Debian 13 ("trixie") sometime next year.

Mozilla would appear to have concluded that the solution to its problems is an extensive rebranding effort:

We teamed up with global branding powerhouse Jones Knowles Ritchie (JKR) to revamp our brand and revitalize our intentions across our entire ecosystem. At the heart of this transformation is making sure people know Mozilla for its broader impact, as well as Firefox. Our new brand strategy and expression embody our role as a leader in digital rights and innovation, putting people over profits through privacy-preserving products, open-source developer tools, and community-building efforts.

FrankenPHP is a modern application server for PHP that enhances the performance and capabilities of PHP applications. It is built on top of another server called Caddy web server, which helps developers to run PHP applications efficiently without the need for traditional web servers like Apache or Nginx.

FrankenPHP can make your PHP applications run faster by keeping your application in memory after the first load, so it doesn’t have to start from scratch with every request, which can lead to significant speed improvements.

With FrankenPHP, you don’t need to set up separate processes like PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) and a web server like Nginx or Apache. Everything runs in one place, making it easier to manage.

This guide walks you through the process of installing FrankenPHP on Ubuntu 24.04 in simple steps.

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Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.12.2, 6.11.11, and 4.19.325 stable kernels. Note that both 6.11.11 and 4.19.325 are the last kernels in those series, "please move off to a newer kernel version". In the 4.19.325 release notice, he has a rather longer-than-usual message, including: As a "fun" proof that this one is finished (and that any company saying they care about it really should have their statements validated with facts), I looked at the "unfixed" CVEs from this kernel release. Currently it is a list 983 CVEs long, too long to list here.

You can verify it yourself by cloning the vulns.git repo at git.kernel.org and running: ./scripts/strak v4.19.325 Note, this does NOT count the hardware CVEs which kernel.org does not track, and many are sill unfixed in this kernel branch.

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (thunderbird, tuned, and webkitgtk), Mageia (python-aiohttp and qemu), Oracle (container-tools:ol8, firefox, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, kernel, kernel:4.18.0, krb5, pam, postgresql:16, python-tornado, python3:3.6.8, thunderbird, tigervnc, tuned, and webkit2gtk3), Red Hat (bzip2, postgresql, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, python-tornado, and ruby:3.1), Slackware (python3), SUSE (postgresql, postgresql16, postgresql17, postgresql13, postgresql14, postgresql15, python-python-multipart, and python3), and Ubuntu (python-django and recutils).

Version:next-20241205 (linux-next) Released:2024-12-05

Learn how to install PyCharm on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros using multiple different method with practical examples.

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Version:6.12.2 (stable) Released:2024-12-05 Source:linux-6.12.2.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.2.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.2

Version:6.11.11 (stable) Released:2024-12-05 Source:linux-6.11.11.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.11.11.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.11.11

Learn how to back up your Raspberry Pi using rsync – from basic folder backups to full system automation – with this comprehensive guide.

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Version:4.19.325 (EOL) (longterm) Released:2024-12-05 Source:linux-4.19.325.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-4.19.325.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-4.19.325

Network Security Toolkit (NST) is a bootable live disc based on the Fedora distribution. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed open source network security applications and should run on most x86 platforms. The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the network security administrator with a comprehensive set of open source network security tools. What we find rather fascinating with NST is that we can transform most x86_64 systems into a system designed for network traffic analysis, intrusion detection, network packet generation, wireless network monitoring, a virtual system service server, or a sophisticated network/host scanner.

CachyOS is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It focuses on speed and security optimisations - the default Linux kernel is heavily optimised using the BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) scheduler, while the desktop packages are compiled with LTO, x86-64-v3 and x86-64-v4 optimization, security flags and performance improvements. The available desktop environments and window managers include KDE, GNOME, Xfce, CuteFish, i3wm, Wayfire, LXQt, OpenBox, Cinnamon, UKUI, LXDE, MATE, Budgie, Qtile, Hyprland and Sway. CachyOS also ships with both graphical and command-line installers and provides a Firefox-based browser (called Cachy-Browser) with some security enhancements and performance optimisations.

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