Internet News Section
In the latest monthly Steam report from Valve for November, statistics were provided showing an increase in the Linux user share to a new historic high of 1.91%. The absolute growth compared to the previous reporting period (October) was 0.52%. Apparently, the rise in popularity is linked to the release of the next-generation Valve console — Steam Deck OLED with an expanded […]
Greg Kroah-Hartman, who is responsible for maintaining the stable branch of the Linux kernel, has published a significant release of kernel 6.6.6, which proposes one change affecting the cfg80211 wireless stack. The change rolls back the fix that was added in release 6.6.5, which led to regressions because another fix from the 6.7 branch was not transferred along with the fix in 6.6.5 […]
In the Buildroot build system, aimed at creating bootable Linux environments for embedded systems, six vulnerabilities have been identified that allow for alterations in the generated system images or execution of code at the build system level during transit traffic interception (MITM). The vulnerabilities have been addressed in the Buildroot releases 2023.02.8, 2023.08.4, and 2023.11. The first five vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-45841, CVE-2023-45842, CVE-2023-45838, CVE-2023-45839, CVE-2023-45840) affect […]
Under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, the OpenBao project has been established, which will continue the development of the Hashicorp Vault codebase under the free MPLv2 (Mozilla Public License). This fork was created in response to HashiCorp's transition of its products to a proprietary BSL 1.1 license, which restricts code usage in cloud systems competing with HashiCorp's products and services. The creators of OpenBao aim to continue […]
The release of the cross-platform open build script generator CMake 3.28 has been announced, serving as an alternative to Autotools and utilized in projects such as KDE, LLVM/Clang, MySQL, MariaDB, ReactOS, and Blender. CMake is notable for providing a simple scripting language, extending functionality through modules, supporting caching, offering tools for cross-compilation, and generating build files for a wide range of build systems and compilers […]
On December 9, the developers of the Lubuntu distribution shared some plans for the upcoming Lubuntu 24.04 LTS release. In this version of the distribution, which is set to be released in April, an additional Wayland session is planned to be created. This session will not be installed by default; however, starting from version 24.10, Wayland will be used as the standard option. The Lubuntu developers also hope to fully switch […]
Due to a problematic patch that was backported from Linux 6.5 to 6.1, causing interference between Ext4 code and iomap, there is a risk of data corruption in older kernels — especially in the latest point releases of Linux 6.1 LTS, which can currently be found in distributions such as Debian 12. The potential bug related to EXT4 filesystem data corruption is encountered […]
Starting from December 10, 2024, the beta version of Linux Mint 21.3, codenamed 'Virginia', will be available for download. Some changes include the Snap Store being disabled. For more information or instructions on how to re-enable it, you can find it at this link. Guest sessions. You can enable guest sessions in the 'Login Window' utility, but this option is currently turned off by default. Touchpad drivers. In this release […]
The release of the SeaMonkey 2.53.18 internet application suite has taken place, which consolidates a web browser, an email client, an RSS/Atom feed aggregator, and a WYSIWYG HTML page editor called Composer into a single product. Pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client Chatzilla, the DOM Inspector web development tools, and the Lightning calendar-planner. This new release includes fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]
A corrective update for the Debian 12.4 distribution has been released, which includes accumulated package updates and fixes for the installer. The release contains 94 updates addressing stability issues and 65 updates fixing vulnerabilities. The Debian 12.3 release will be skipped due to the discovery of an error in the linux-image-6.1.0-14 package during the final stages of its preparation, which may lead to data corruption […]
The developers of the Lubuntu project have published a plan to transition the distribution to Qt 6 and Wayland. Support for an optional Wayland-based session will be introduced in Lubuntu 24.04, while in Lubuntu 24.10 this session will be enabled by default. Meanwhile, work continues on integrating Wayland and Qt 6 support into the LXQt desktop environment provided in Lubuntu (the latest LXQt release is 1.4 […]
The Debian project developers have announced the suspension of publishing installation images with the Debian 12.3 update due to the discovery of an error in the Linux kernel that leads to data corruption in the Ext4 file system. Users of already installed systems are advised to refrain from installing kernel package updates from the repository until a fix is released. The problem occurs in the stable branch of the Linux kernel 6.1, in which […]