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GNOME 46.5 is here five weeks after the GNOME 46.4 release and fixes smartcard logins, adds user permissions to new Wi-Fi connections for restricted users, fixes the showing of pending PAM messages on the login screen, and fixes the “Locate Pointer” accessibility option when the “Reduce Animation” option is turned on.

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The SUSE Security Team Blog has a detailed review of the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) 6.2.1 release:

The rather complex PCP software suite was difficult to judge just from a cursory look, so we decided to take a closer look especially at PCP's networking logic at a later time. This report contains two CVEs and some non-CVE related findings we also gathered during the follow-up review.

CVE-2024-45769, a flaw that could allow an attacker to send crafted data to crash pcmd, and CVE-2024-45770, which could allow a full local root exploit from the pcp user to root, have been addressed in the 6.3.1 release of PCP.

Valkey, the Redis fork, is kicking rump and taking names. At Open Source Summit Europe, the Linux Foundation announced the release of Valkey 8.0, a giant step forward to the open-source in-memory NoSQL data store. This release focuses on enhancing performance, reliability, and observability, marking a major milestone for the project initially forked from Redis due to licensing changes.

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Wind River’s new Debian-based server and edge Linux distribution was born out of a need to create a CentOS replacement that would remove Red Hat from the equation.

The post How Red Hat’s Bad Actions Led to Wind River’s eLxr Pro Linux Distro appeared first on Linux Today.

GStreamer 1.24.8 multimedia framework rolls out with bug fixes for video encoding and software encoder enhancements.

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The latest 6.11 kernel release is here! This release improves performance, security, and hardware compatibility, increasing the kernel’s flexibility and efficiency for various computing environments.

The post Kernel 6.11: Power Moves and Hardware Grooves appeared first on Linux Today.

As of this writing, 6,778 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline kernel for the 6.12 release — over half of the work that had been staged in linux-next prior to the opening of the merge window. There has been a lot of refactoring and cleanup work this time around, but also some significant changes. Read on for a summary of the first half of the 6.12 merge window.

Zorin OS 17.2 launches with customizable desktops, enhanced security features, and better app behavior.

The post Zorin OS 17.2: Faster, More Secure, and User-Friendly appeared first on Linux Today.

The OpenSSH project has released version 9.9. This version includes support for the new post-quantum cryptography standard from NIST. The release also includes the next step in the deprecation of DSA keys — they are now disabled by default at compile time, and are expected to be removed entirely in early 2025. The release also contains the normal mixture of bug fixes and small usability improvements.

New Proton 9.0-3 update: Play games like Avatar, Ball at Work, Super, Flatout 3, and many others on Linux with improved stability and support.

The post Proton 9.0-3 Unleashes New Playable Titles and Essential Fixes appeared first on Linux Today.

The kernel normally sits firmly between user space and the system's peripheral devices, and provides a standard interface to those devices. At times, though, a more direct interface to a device is desired — but such interfaces can be controversial. At the 2024 Maintainers Summit, the assembled developers considered a specific case — the proposed fwctl subsystem — as well as the role of such drivers in general.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium), Fedora (bluez, chromium, frr, iwd, libell, python3.11, python3.8, python3.9, and ruby), Mageia (kernel, kmod-xtables-addons, and kmod-virtualbox and kernel-linus), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (kernel, kubernetes1.23, kubernetes1.24, kubernetes1.25, libmfx, and python-azure-identity), and Ubuntu (emacs, emacs24, emacs25, libreoffice, postgresql-9.5, python2.7, python3.5, and tgt).

On September 19, Thomas Gleixner delivered the pull request for the realtime preemption enablement patches to Linus Torvalds — in printed form, wrapped in gold, with a ribbon, as Torvalds had requested. It was a significant milestone, marking the completion of a project that required 20 years of effort. Congratulations are due to everybody involved.

Torvalds acted on the pull request the following morning.

Version:next-20240920 (linux-next) Released:2024-09-20

Zorin OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed especially for newcomers to Linux. It has a Windows-like graphical user interface and many programs similar to those found in Windows. Zorin OS also comes with an application that lets users run many Windows programs. The distribution's ultimate goal is to provide a Linux alternative to Windows and let Windows users enjoy all the features of Linux without complications.

In this detailed introduction to Oracle VirtualBox tutorial, we’ll learn what VirtualBox is, its history, use cases, and the amazing features it offers.

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The work done on real-time Linux has benefitted the open-source OS for years, but it was only this week that Linus Torvalds admitted its last piece into the mainline kernel. Exactly what took so long?

The post 20 Years Later, Real-Time Linux Makes It to the Kernel — Really appeared first on Linux Today.

Dirk Behme led a session discussing the use of Rust's question-mark operator in the kernel at Kangrejos 2024. He was particularly concerned with the concept of "silent" errors that don't print any messages to the console. Other attendees were less convinced that this was a problem, but his presentation sparked a lot of discussion about whether the Rust-for-Linux project could improve error handling in kernel Rust code.

The lightweight Linux distro Sparky 7.5 is now available for download, offering full Debian 12 compatibility and updated package base.

The post Sparky 7.5 Drops With Updated Packages appeared first on Linux Today.

The new Debian-Linux-based operating system is meant to be a robust, flexible platform that scales for workloads from enterprise to edge.

The post Wind River Unveils Linux Distro for AI and Critical Workloads appeared first on Linux Today.