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Release of the Chimera distribution 20250214, combining the Linux kernel with the FreeBSD environment

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An update has been released for the Chimera Linux distribution, notable for using the Linux kernel along with utilities from FreeBSD, the dinit system manager, and the Musl standard C library. The build is carried out using the Clang compiler. Bootable Live images have been created for the x86_64, ppc64le, aarch64, riscv64, and ppc64 architectures, available in variants with GNOME (1.5 GB), KDE (2.1 GB), and a minimal environment (806 MB). The project aims to […]

A vulnerability in Musl is being exploited during text transcoding into the EUC-KR encoding.

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A vulnerability has been identified in the Musl standard C library (CVE-2024-2961), leading to a buffer overflow when converting specially crafted text from EUC-KR encoding to UTF-8 using the iconv() function. The vulnerability manifests starting from Musl version 0.9.13 and will be fixed in the forthcoming release 1.2.6 (a patch should be used until the update is released). The vulnerability was discovered by the maintainer of the libxml2 library during fuzz testing. […]

Asahi Linux leader has left the project after issues with advancing Rust in the Linux kernel

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Hector Martin, the founder of the Asahi Linux project, which focuses on porting Linux to run on Apple Silicon Macs, has announced his resignation as the project lead and the end of development. The members of Asahi Linux have formed a governing council consisting of 7 developers. The council will make decisions collectively and coordinate the project's work together. The reason for the departure […]

The Wayland color-management-v1 protocol has been added to upstream.

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After more than 5 years of development and over 800 comments in the discussion of the related merge request (significantly more if you include associated discussions), the color-management-v1 extension of the Wayland protocol for color management and HDR has been included in the main branch of the project. This extension allows Wayland clients to retrieve color properties of displayed data and meet requirements for supporting displays with extended dynamic range […]

Discussion on increasing the timer frequency in the Linux kernel to 1000Hz by default

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An engineer from Google proposed raising the default timer interrupt frequency in the Linux kernel to 1000Hz, which will result in increased task switching frequency and reduced time quantums in the task scheduler. Currently, the default is set to 250Hz as a compromise between performance, latency, and power consumption. When using displays with a refresh rate of 120Hz, typical […]

The openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution has switched to using SELinux by default.

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The developers of the openSUSE project announced the transition of the openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution, which employs a rolling release cycle, to the use of SELinux for mandatory access control. Starting with the update 20250211, SELinux in 'enforcing' mode is suggested by default for new installations of openSUSE Tumbleweed. Pre-built virtual machine images of openSUSE Tumbleweed minimalVM will now come with SELinux enabled by default. Support for […]

Release of DuckDB Database 1.2.0

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The release of DuckDB 1.2.0 has been published, which is aimed at executing analytical queries and conceptually resembles SQLite. DuckDB combines features of SQLite, such as compactness, embedding as a library, storing the database in a single file, and a CLI interface, with capabilities and optimizations for executing analytical queries that cover a significant portion of stored data, such as aggregating all the contents of tables or merging several […]

Vifm 0.14

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On February 8, after more than a year and a half of development, version 0.14 of the console file manager Vifm was released, featuring Vim-like modal control and some ideas borrowed from the mail client mutt. Vifm is written in C and is distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license. To extend its capabilities, an embedded Lua interpreter can be used. Change list: Use of Unicode normalization during […]

Release of Alt Server 10.4

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The release of the Alt Server version on the p10 Aronia platform 10.4 is now available. The build is prepared for x86_64, AArch64, and 'Elbrus', based on kernel 6.1 LTS. During installation, you can choose the std-def 5.10 kernel. Download the image from download.basealt.ru, mirror.yandex.ru, ftp.altlinux.org. In the new image, the gpupdate 0.12 feature has introduced the ability to configure policies for the Thunderbird mail client, with added settings being saved in dconf, support for […]

For systemd, the ability to boot system images via HTTP is being developed.

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Lennart Poettering proposed to include a change in the system manager systemd that allows the system to boot using a root file system image obtained from an external host via the HTTP protocol. This change expands systemd's capabilities to not only download a disk image via HTTP during the initial boot stage but also to unpack the downloaded image, link it to a block device in loopback mode, and mount […]

FLAC 1.5 with the long-awaited multithreading

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The free lossless audio codec FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) has introduced its new version 1.5, which includes several long-awaited improvements that will surely please both audiophiles and professionals. This release comes more than a year and a half after the previous version 1.4.3 and brings significant enhancements in both encoding and decoding processes. Key innovations include multi-threaded encoding. The most […]

OpenSSL 3.4.1 Update with Vulnerability Fixes

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Corrective releases of the OpenSSL cryptographic library 3.0.16, 3.1.8, 3.2.4, 3.3.3, and 3.4.1 are now available. Versions 3.2.4, 3.3.3, and 3.4.1 have addressed a vulnerability (CVE-2024-12797) that has been assigned a high severity rating. This vulnerability allows for a MITM attack on TLS and DTLS connections. The issue only manifests in systems that use Raw Public Key (RPK, RFC 7250) for client authentication. By default, support for […]

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