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[$] FreeDOS turns 30

https://lwn.net/Articles/979780/

Published: June 28, 2024 19:45

FreeDOS is an open-source operating system designed to be compatible with the now-defunct MS-DOS. Three decades have now passed since the FreeDOS project was first announced, and it is still alive and well with a small community of developers and users…

FSF Europe condemns Apple's DMA noncompliance

https://lwn.net/Articles/980003/

Published: June 28, 2024 14:37

The Free Software Foundation Europe has submitted a joint position to the European Commission (EC), claiming that Apple has failed to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA). This is the law that requires Apple to support alternative application…

[$] Redox: An operating system in Rust

https://lwn.net/Articles/979524/

Published: June 28, 2024 13:36

With the Rust-for-Linux project starting to gain some ground, it is worth looking at other operating systems that use Rust in their kernels. There are many attempts to use Rust for operating system development, but Redox may be the most complete. Redox…

Security updates for Friday

https://lwn.net/Articles/979999/

Published: June 28, 2024 12:53

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (pki-core), Debian (dlt-daemon and plasma-workspace), Fedora (emacs and kernel), Mageia (erofs-utils, libheif, libopenmpt, and wget), Red Hat (pki-core and python3), SUSE (frr), and Ubuntu (fontforge, sqlite3,…

Highlights from the FreeBSD Developer Summit

https://lwn.net/Articles/979935/

Published: June 27, 2024 20:08

The FreeBSD Foundation has published a set of reports from the May 2024 FreeBSD Developer Summit held in Ottawa, Canada. The topics include FreeBSD Core Team updates, FreeBSD 15 release planning, Integration with Rust, and OCI containers on FreeBSD: Doug…

Mourning Daniel Bristot de Oliveira

https://lwn.net/Articles/979912/

Published: June 27, 2024 18:14

The academic and the Linux real-time and scheduling community mourns the premature death of Daniel Bristot de Oliveira. Daniel died at the age of 37 on Monday, June 24, 2024. Juri Lelli, Tommaso Cucinotta, Steve Rostedt, Kate Stewart, and Thomas Gleixner…

Free Software Foundation adds three board members

https://lwn.net/Articles/979918/

Published: June 27, 2024 18:04

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced the addition of three new members to its board: John Gilmore, Christina Haralanova, and Maria Chiara Pievatolo. This is part of FSF governance changes announced in January 2023. The next step is a review of…

[$] Direct-to-device networking

https://lwn.net/Articles/979549/

Published: June 27, 2024 15:27

It has been nearly one year since the first version of the device memory TCP patches was posted by Mina Almasry. Now on the 14th revision, this series appears to be stabilizing. Device memory TCP is a specialized networking feature requiring a certain…

[$] Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections

https://lwn.net/Articles/979671/

Published: June 27, 2024 14:00

An upgrade from Python 3.11 to 3.12 has led to the rejection of some Python apps by Apple's app stores. That led to Eric Froemling submitting a bug report against CPython. That, in turn, led to an interesting discussion among Python developers about how…

Three Thursday stable kernel updates

https://lwn.net/Articles/979849/

Published: June 27, 2024 13:12

The 6.9.7, 6.6.36, and 6.1.96 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains an important set of fixes.

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/979847/

Published: June 27, 2024 13:00

Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, kernel, libvpx, and linux-5.10), Fedora (chromium, firefox, freeipa, moodle, and openvpn), Oracle (git), Red Hat (golang and java-1.8.0-ibm), and Ubuntu (linux-oracle-6.5, netplan.io, openssl,…

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 27, 2024

https://lwn.net/Articles/979084/

Published: June 26, 2024 23:55

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 27, 2024 is available.

OpenSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 is now available

https://lwn.net/Articles/979748/

Published: June 26, 2024 15:06

The openSUSE project has announced Leap Micro version 6.0. Leap Micro is an image-based, lightweight Linux distribution that is designed to run containerized and virtualized applications. It is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) Micro. Changes in this…

Hutterer: GNOME tablet support papercut fixes

https://lwn.net/Articles/979745/

Published: June 26, 2024 14:17

Peter Hutterer has written a summary of "papercut fixes" for GNOME tablet support that are planned to ship with GNOME 47. If you're an avid tablet user, you may have multiple stylus tools - but it's also likely that you have multiple tools of the same…

[$] Finishing the conversion to the "new" mount API

https://lwn.net/Articles/979166/

Published: June 26, 2024 13:19

Eric Sandeen led a filesystem-track session at the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit on completing the conversion of the existing kernel filesystems to use the mount API that was added for the 5.2 kernel in 2019. That API…

Types Team Update and Roadmap (Rust Blog)

https://lwn.net/Articles/979741/

Published: June 26, 2024 13:16

The Rust Blog is carrying an update on what the Rust Types Team has been up to and its near-future plans. There has been a lot of work on the next-generation trait solver. The initiative posted a separate update at the end of last year. While we…

Security updates for Wednesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/979740/

Published: June 26, 2024 13:10

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (git, python3.11, and python3.9), Debian (chromium, emacs, git, linux-5.10, and org-mode), Fedora (libopenmpt, nginx-mod-modsecurity, and thunderbird), Mageia (emacs, python-ansible-core, and python-authlib),…

[$] Programming in Unison

https://lwn.net/Articles/978955/

Published: June 25, 2024 18:18

Unison is a MIT-licensed programming language, in development since 2013, that explores the ramifications of making code immutable and stored in a database, instead of a set of text files. Unison supports a greatly simplified model for distributed…

Darktable 4.8.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/979666/

Published: June 25, 2024 17:58

Version 4.8.0 of the darktable photo editor has been released. Changes include performance improvements for large collections, addition of more EXIF fields in the image information module, and two new modules for image composition: Enlarge Canvas and…

[$] Making containers bootable for fun and profit

https://lwn.net/Articles/979182/

Published: June 25, 2024 17:10

Dan Walsh, Stef Walter, and Colin Walters all walk into a presentation and Walter asks, "why would you want to boot your containers?" This isn't the setup for some technology joke, this is part of the trio's keynote at DevConf.cz in Brno, Czech Republic on…

RIP Daniel Bristot de Oliveira

https://lwn.net/Articles/979617/

Published: June 25, 2024 14:39

We have just received the sad news of the passing of Daniel Bristot de Oliveira at far too young an age. He was a strong contributor to the core kernel and associated realtime infrastructure, and always a joyful presence in person; he will be deeply…

Not all "open source" AI models are actually open (Nature)

https://lwn.net/Articles/979609/

Published: June 25, 2024 13:31

Nature looks at a recent paper on the openness of "open-source" language models. It is not yet clear how many of these models will fit the EU's definition of open source. Under the act, this would refer to models that are released under a "free and…

Security updates for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/979606/

Published: June 25, 2024 13:18

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (python3.11), Debian (composer), Fedora (thunderbird), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable, python-aiohttp, python-gunicorn, python-werkzeug, and virtualbox), Oracle (libreswan and python3.11), Red Hat (git,…

Min: sched_ext: scheduler architecture and interfaces

https://lwn.net/Articles/979532/

Published: June 24, 2024 16:33

Changwoo Min has posted an introduction to writing custom schedulers with sched_ext. In a particular situation, when each scheduling policy needs its specific action, the core kernel scheduler calls an operation defined in struct sched_class. For…

[$] The GhostBSD in the machine

https://lwn.net/Articles/978837/

Published: June 24, 2024 14:35

GhostBSD is a desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD and the MATE Desktop Environment. The goal of the project is to lower the barrier to entry of using FreeBSD on a desktop or laptop system, and it largely succeeds at this. While it has a few…

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/979520/

Published: June 24, 2024 14:14

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (ipa and libreswan), Debian (netty), Fedora (python-PyMySQL, tomcat, and webkitgtk), Gentoo (Flatpak, GLib, JHead, LZ4, and RDoc), Mageia (thunderbird), Oracle (nghttp2 and thunderbird), Red Hat (dnsmasq,…

Emacs 29.4 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/979491/

Published: June 24, 2024 14:07

Version 29.4 of the Emacs editor has been released. This is "an emergency bugfix release" fixing a vulnerability that can cause the editor to execute arbitrary shell code in Org mode. Anybody who runs Emacs on untrusted files — including those using Gnus…

Kernel prepatch 6.10-rc5

https://lwn.net/Articles/979442/

Published: June 23, 2024 22:23

The 6.10-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "So far, the 6.10 release cycle has been fairly calm, and rc5 continues that trend. Let's hope things stay that way."

Larry Finger RIP

https://lwn.net/Articles/979419/

Published: June 23, 2024 14:28

The linux-wireless mailing list carries the terse notice that longtime networking developer Larry Finger passed away on June 21. The LWN Kernel Source Database shows that Finger contributed to 94 releases in the (Git era) kernel history, starting with…