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Damn Small Linux was a business card size (50MB) live CD Linux distribution, based on Debian and Knoppix. After a 12 year break (from 2012 to 2024), the Damn Small Linux (DSL) project was relaunched. The distribution is now based on Debian and antiX with the goal of fitting on live media 700MB or smaller (in order to be usable in CD-ROM drives). Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop. Damn Small Linux has a nearly complete desktop suite, including web browsers, office software, an e-mail client, PDF viewer, media players, and FTP/SFTP client.

A Linux system is made up of a large number of interdependent components, all of which must support each other well. It can thus be surprising that, it seems, the developers working on those components do not often speak with each other. In the hope of improving that situation, efforts have been made in recent years to attract toolchain developers to the kernel-heavy Linux Plumbers Conference. This year, though, the opposite happened as well: the 2024 GNU Tools Cauldron hosted a discussion where kernel developers were invited to discuss their needs.

Version 19.1.0 of the LLVM compiler suite has been released:

This is the first release in the LLVM 19.x series and represents 6 months of work the LLVM community. During this period 1502 unique authors contributed 18925 commits (3605729 lines added and 1665792 lines removed) to LLVM.

As usual, there is a long list of changes; see the release notes for LLVM, Libc++, lld, Clang, and Extra Clang Tools for changes to each.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (pcs), Debian (expat, galera-4, libreoffice, mariadb-10.5, and php-twig), Fedora (chromium), Red Hat (ghostscript and git), SUSE (gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-plugins-bad, libvpl, python-dnspython, python3, and python36), and Ubuntu (expat, frr, libxmltok, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, openssl, and quagga).

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Explore the top open-source IAM (Identity and Access Management) tools, their features, and how they can enhance your organization’s security and access control.

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Navidrome 0.53, a self-hosted music server and streamer, brings a new Nuclear theme, language additions, playlist auto-import toggle, and more.

The post Navidrome 0.53 Rolls Out With Enhanced UI appeared first on Linux Today.

KDE Frameworks 6.6.0 released! Enhancements across 72 Qt addon libraries, including Breeze Icons, KIO, and Kirigami updates.

The post KDE Frameworks 6.6.0 Is Out, Here’s What’s New appeared first on Linux Today.

OpenSearch, a powerful search and analytics engine developed by AWS, has joined with the Linux Foundation to ensure its continued growth and innovation.

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Kangrejos 2024 started off with a talk from Benno Lossin about his recent work to establish a standard for safety documentation in Rust kernel code. Lossin began his talk by giving a brief review of what safety documentation is, and why it's needed, before moving on to the current status of his work. Safety documentation is easier to read and write when there's a shared vocabulary for discussing common requirements; Lossin wants to establish that shared vocabulary for Rust code in the Linux kernel.

Live from Vienna, it’s the Linus Torvalds and Dirk Hohndel show! This time, they’re talking RTLinux, Rust, maintainer burnout, and succession planning.

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Vanilla OS, an immutable desktop Linux distribution designed for developers and advanced users, has recently published its 2.0 "Orchid" release. Previously based on Ubuntu, Vanilla OS has now shifted to Debian unstable ("sid"). The release has made it easier to install software from other distributions' package repositories, and it is now theoretically possible to install and run Android applications as well.

The GNU Linux-libre project announced the release and general availability of the GNU Linux-libre 6.11 kernel for those who seek 100% freedom for their GNU/Linux computers.

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Here’s a look at the new features and expanded capabilities in Nextcloud Hub 9, which was released on Saturday.

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PhotoPrism’s Sept updates include improved iOS compatibility, enhanced UX, and new translations. Full library rescan recommended.

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The GNOME Asia Summit 2024 will take place from December 6 to 8 in Bengaluru, India, at Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd. The call for abstracts is now open.

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Fedora Linux (formerly Fedora, formerly Fedora Core) is a Linux distribution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and owned by Red Hat. Fedora Linux contains software distributed under a free and open-source license and aims to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Fedora has a reputation for focusing on innovation, integrating new technologies early on and working closely with upstream Linux communities. The default desktop in Fedora Linux is the GNOME desktop environment and the default interface is the GNOME Shell. Other desktop environments, including KDE, Xfce, LXDE, MATE and Cinnamon, are available. The Fedora project also distributes custom variations of Fedora called Fedora spins. These are built with specific sets of software packages, offering alternative desktop environments or targeting specific interests such as gaming, security, design, scientific computing and robotics.

FreeBSD is a UNIX-like operating system for the i386, amd64, IA-64, arm, MIPS, powerpc, ppc64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's "4.4BSD-Lite" release, with some "4.4BSD-Lite2" enhancements. It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's "Net/2" to the i386, known as "386BSD", though very little of the 386BSD code remains. FreeBSD is used by companies, Internet Service Providers, researchers, computer professionals, students and home users all over the world in their work, education and recreation. FreeBSD comes with over 20,000 packages (pre-compiled software that is bundled for easy installation), covering a wide range of areas: from server software, databases and web servers, to desktop software, games, web browsers and business software - all free and easy to install.

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.11 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 41 beta is here to showcase the soon-to-be-released GNOME 47 desktop environment on the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, which is now Wayland-only and once again supports installing the NVIDIA drivers with Secure Boot enabled, as well as the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment on the Fedora KDE Spin.

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Four researchers have published a formal proof that Linux's new deterministic random bit generator (DRBG) is secure in a particular sense — specifically, that the number of queries that would need to be made to it to uncover its internal state depends on the quality of the entropy it can collect from different sources. As long as it can gather enough entropy, it produces secure random numbers.

Since the significant structural changes in Linux 4 and Linux 5.17, there has been no research on the provable security of Linux-DRBG. For the first time (to the best of our knowledge), we formally model the Linux-DRBG in Linux 6.4.8 and prove its security in the seedless robustness model

Thanks to Jason Donenfeld for bringing the paper to our attention.