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Linus has released the 6.11 kernel. "I'm once again on the road and not in my normal timezone, but it's Sunday afternoon here in Vienna, and 6.11 is out." Significant changes in this release include new io_uring operations for bind() and listen(), the nested bottom-half locking patches, the ability to write to busy executable files, support for writing block drivers in Rust, support for atomic write operations in the block layer, the dedicated bucket slab allocator, the vDSO implementation of getrandom(), and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) for more information.

Version:6.11 (mainline) Released:2024-09-15 Source:linux-6.11.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.11.tar.sign Patch:full

Discover a step-by-step guide to install and configure MariaDB on Ubuntu and how to update and remove it with practical examples.

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Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS is here six and a half months after Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS as an up-to-date installation media designed for those of you who want to install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) on a new computer and don’t want to download hundreds of updated packages from the repositories after the installation.

The post Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) Is Now Available Powered by Linux Kernel 6.8 appeared first on Linux Today.

The GNOME Foundation has announced that it is looking for a new Executive Director following the departure of Holly Million in July:

As the cornerstone of our leadership team, the Executive Director will play a critical role in shaping the strategic direction of the Foundation, working closely with staff, community members, and partners to expand our reach and impact. The ideal candidate will have professional experience working with nonprofits, a strong passion for open-source software, a deep commitment to our community values, and the vision to drive the next phase of GNOME's growth and development.

The window of opportunity for the job is closing quickly, applications are due by September 20.

The KDE Gear 24.08.1 apps collection is now available for download, with key fixes for Dolphin, KClock, and Filelight and updated translations.

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LinuxConsole is an independently developed Linux live CD with different editions designed for desktops, servers, gaming consoles, and old computers. Its primary characteristics are easy installation, extensive choice of software in the form of modules, and excellent hardware detection.

Haiku is an open-source operating system, currently in development, that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the Be Operating System (BeOS), Haiku aims to become a fast, efficient, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful system for computer users of all levels. The key highlights that distinguish Haiku from other operating systems include: specific focus on personal computing, custom kernel designed for responsiveness, fully threaded design for great efficiency with multi-processor/core CPUs, rich object-oriented API for faster development, database-like file system (BFS) with support for indexed metadata, and unified, cohesive interface.

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest €688,800 to improve the security, stability, and functionality of Samba. The investment will take place over three years and will be managed by SerNet, a company that employs several Samba core developers and offers support for Samba. According to its announcement, work has already begun and is expected to complete in 2026:

The project's focus is on areas like transparent failover, SMB3 UNIX extensions, and modern security protocols such as SMB over QUIC. These improvements are designed to ensure that Samba remains a robust and secure solution for organizations that rely on a sovereign IT infrastructure that is as independent as possible of proprietary software regimes, but including optimal interoperability.

Ardour 8.7 Digital Audio Workstation rolls out new features, including track dragging, ruler changes, and enhanced MIDI scene markers.

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Read-copy-update (RCU) is a synchronization mechanism that was added to the Linux kernel in October 2002. RCU is most frequently used as a replacement for reader-writer locking, but is also used in a number of other ways. This article covers recent changes to the RCU API; it was contributed by Paul McKenney, Boqun Feng, Frederic Weisbecker, Joel Fernandes, Neeraj Upadhyay, and Uladzislau Rezki.

A new type of malware has been discovered that is able to bypass detection by 14 major WordPress security scanners, including Wordfence. Read on to find out more!

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The upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 operating system promises a new feature called “permissions prompting” for an extra layer of privacy and security.

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TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen3 is powered by AMD’s top-tier processor, the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX, featuring 16 cores and 32 threads, 64 MB L3-Cache, 85 W TDP, up to 5,4 GHz clock speed, and AMD Radeon 610M graphics. The Linux laptop also features NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060/4070 graphics with 8 GB GDDR6 VRAM and 115 W TGP.

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Security updates have been issued by Fedora (haproxy, osc, and python3.11), Oracle (389-ds:1.4), Red Hat (kernel), SUSE (clamav, colord, kernel, postgresql16, and qemu), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-kvm, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-nvidia-6.8, and linux-xilinx-zynqmp).

US-based hardware vendor Juno Computers launched today the Juno Tab 3 tablet powered by Linux and running the Debian-based Mobian Linux or Ubuntu/Kubuntu 24.04 LTS.

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Version:next-20240913 (linux-next) Released:2024-09-13

Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS upgrades, which were temporarily halted due to critical issues, are enabled. So the users can now upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04.

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LMDE 5 reaches end-of-life, Cinnamon 6.4 desktop environment to feature an improved default theme, addressing the aesthetic gap.

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LibreOffice 24.8.1 is here three weeks after the LibreOffice 24.8 release and addresses more of those pesky bugs, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users, thus improving its overall stability and reliability of the open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite.

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