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Version:6.9-rc5 (mainline) Released:2024-04-21 Source:linux-6.9-rc5.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)

Gregory Price recently posted a patch set that adds support for weighted memory interleaving — allowing a process's memory to be distributed between non-uniform memory access (NUMA) nodes in a more controlled way. According to his performance measurements, the patch set could provide a significant improvement for computers with network-attached memory. The patch set also introduces new system calls and paves the way for future extensions intended to give processes more control over their own memory.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gnutls, java-17-openjdk, mod_http2, and squid), Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (editorconfig, perl-Clipboard, php, rust, and wordpress), Mageia (less, libreswan, puppet, and x11-server, x11-server-xwayland, and tigervnc), Slackware (aaa_glibc), and SUSE (firefox, graphviz, kernel, nodejs12, pgadmin4, tomcat, and wireshark).

Version:next-20240419 (linux-next) Released:2024-04-19

In this guide, learn how to debloat (or swap) Ubuntu system to a cleaner version by removing unnecessary packages and installing new packages as a DEB.

The post How to Debloat (or Swap) an Ubuntu System (Ultimate Guide) appeared first on Linux Today.

A web application firewall (WAF) is a type of application firewall that lets you see and analyze HTTP traffic to and from a web application. It has the objective of preventing attacks that seek to deny service and steal data.

The post 6 Best Free and Open-Source Web Application Firewalls appeared first on Linux Today.

Steven Shiau released today a new version of his Clonezilla Live system for disk cloning/imaging based on the powerful Clonezilla software, Clonezilla Live 3.1.2-22, which adds a newer kernel and patches the live system against the latest XZ backdoor.

The post Clonezilla Live Is Now Patched Against the XZ Backdoor, Powered by Linux 6.7 appeared first on Linux Today.

Exciting updates for Pop!_OS and the COSMIC desktop environment, including new features and performance boosts. Here’s more on that!

The post Pop!_OS’s COSMIC Pre-Alpha Shows Impressive Progress appeared first on Linux Today.

Volla, the maker of the Volla Phone smartphones, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for their first tablet device, the Volla Tablet, which will also support the Ubuntu Touch mobile OS.

The post Volla Tablet Launches on Kickstarter with Support for Ubuntu Touch appeared first on Linux Today.

Linux dodged a bullet. If the XZ exploit had gone undiscovered for only a few more weeks, millions of Linux systems would have been compromised with a backdoor.

We were lucky. But can we stay lucky?

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSF) and the OpenJS Foundation revealed that a similar hacking attempt had targeted several JavaScript programs.

The post OpenSSF Warns of Open-Source Social Engineering Threats appeared first on Linux Today.

Gentoo Council member Michał Górny posted an RFC to the gentoo-dev mailing list in late February about banning "'AI'-backed (LLM/GPT/whatever) contributions" to the Gentoo Linux project. Górny wrote that the spread of the "AI bubble" indicated a need for Gentoo to formally take a stand on AI tools. After a lengthy discussion, the Gentoo Council voted unanimously this week to adopt his proposal and ban contributions generated with AI/ML tools.

Kernel developers, like conscientious developers for many projects, will often include checks in the code for conditions that are never expected to occur, but which would indicate a serious problem should that expectation turn out to be incorrect. For years, developers have been encouraged (to put it politely) to avoid using assertions that crash the machine for such conditions unless there is truly no alternative. Increasingly, though, use of the kernel's WARN_ON() family of macros, which developers were told to use instead, is also being discouraged.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, jetty9, libdatetime-timezone-perl, tomcat10, and tzdata), Fedora (cockpit, filezilla, and libfilezilla), Red Hat (firefox, gnutls, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, less, mod_http2, nodejs:18, rhc-worker-script, and shim), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (kernel), and Ubuntu (apache2, glibc, and linux-xilinx-zynqmp).

MPV 0.38.0 video player rolls out with new scripting options, enhanced macOS functionality, and Vulkan support.

The post MPV 0.38.0 Launches with Advanced Video & Audio Upgrades appeared first on Linux Today.

After recently patching a security bug that Red Hat decided not to patch, the RHEL clone AlamaLinux has now returned support for many devices that are no longer supported by RHEL in beta releases of AlmaLinux 9.4 and 8.10.

The post AlmaLinux’s New Beta Releases Return Support for Devices Dropped by RHEL appeared first on Linux Today.

Version:next-20240418 (linux-next) Released:2024-04-18

OpenProject is an open-source task management software written in Ruby on Rails and Angular JS. This tutorial will show you how to install OpenProject on Ubuntu 22.04.

The post How to Install OpenProject on Ubuntu 22.04 appeared first on Linux Today.

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