Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/986899/
Plasma Mobile is an open-source
user interface for mobile devices, developed by the KDE community. It’s
built on the same foundations as Plasma Desktop, including KDE Frameworks and the KWin window
manager. Much like its desktop counterpart, Plasma Mobile caters to
advanced users by offering extensive customizability. It is offered as an
option on phones with various mobile Linux
distributions.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/987664/
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind and bind-dyndb-ldap and postgresql:16), Fedora (less and python3.6), Mageia (nodejs & yarnpkg), Oracle (libvpx and postgresql:16), Red Hat (edk2, git, kernel, openldap, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, python3, and python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9), SUSE (apache2, python-setuptools, and python3-setuptools), and Ubuntu (linux-oracle).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/987238/
Immutable data makes concurrent access easier, since it
eliminates the data-race conditions that can plague multithreaded programs. At
PyCon 2024, Yury Selivanov
introduced an early-stage project called MemHive, which uses Python
subinterpreters and immutable data to
overcome the problems of thread serialization that are caused by the
language’s Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). Recent developments in the Python world have opened
up different strategies for avoiding the longstanding problems with the
GIL.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/987309/
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, python-html-sanitizer, and trafficserver), Fedora (nginx, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, python-webob, python3-docs, python3.11, python3.12, python3.9, and zabbix), Red Hat (bind, bind and bind-dyndb-ldap, bind9.16, httpd, kernel, kernel-rt, and nodejs:20), SUSE (caddy, chromium, chromium, gn, rust-bindgen, cockpit, fetchmail, gdcm, gh, keybase-client, libhtp, libofx, nano, plasma5-workspace, python-nltk, python-notebook, xen, and znc), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-azure-5.4, and linux-oracle-5.15).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/985739/
On the second day of DebConf24
in Busan, South Korea, Holger Levsen provided a history lesson on the
“first 11 years” of the Reproducible Builds project.
He has been involved in the project for most of that time and has been a
Debian user since the mid-1990s, contributor since 2001, and a Debian
member since 2007; “I love Debian”. Meanwhile, his aim is to make all free
software be reproducible, so that anyone can check that a binary program
comes from the source code it purports to.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/986841/
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, bind, bind9.16, curl, edk2, firefox, gnome-shell, grafana, jose, krb5, libreoffice, mod_auth_openidc:2.3, orc, pcs, poppler, python-setuptools, python-urllib3, python3.11-setuptools, python3.12-setuptools, thunderbird, tomcat, and wget), Fedora (webkitgtk), SUSE (apache2, glib2, and roundcubemail), and Ubuntu (kernel, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15,
linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-fde-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15,
linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm,
linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-kvm,
linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle,
linux-raspi, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4,
linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm,
linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-ibm,
linux-lowlatency, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency,
linux-oem-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-bluefield, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-raspi-5.4, and qemu).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/985041/
At
PyCon 2024 in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, Anthony Shaw looked at the various kinds of parallelism
available to Python programs. There have been two major developments on
the parallel-execution front over the last few years, with the effort to
provide subinterpreters, each with its own
global interpreter lock (GIL), along with the work to remove the GIL entirely. In the talk, he
explored the two approaches to try to give attendees a sense of how to make
the right choice for their applications.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/986225/
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-asyncssh), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, httpd, and tor), SUSE (cosign, cpio, curl, expat, java-11-openjdk, ncurses, netty, netty-tcnative, opera, python-Django, python-Pillow, shadow, sudo, and wpa_supplicant), and Ubuntu (firefox).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/985845/
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8), Debian (flatpak), Fedora (389-ds-base, dotnet8.0, and roundcubemail), Red Hat (bind9.16, firefox, python-setuptools, and thunderbird), Slackware (dovecot), SUSE (389-ds, curl, kernel, kernel-firmware, kubernetes1.25, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, python-Pillow, and zziplib), and Ubuntu (busybox, linux-azure, and ruby-rmagick).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/985669/
Three new stable kernels have been released: 6.10.5, 6.6.46, and 6.1.105. As usual, they contain important
fixes all over the kernel tree.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/985654/
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base), Debian (ffmpeg), Fedora (chromium), Red Hat (.NET 8.0, container-tools:rhel8, edk2, firefox, gnome-shell, grafana, jose, kernel, kernel-rt, krb5, open-vm-tools, orc, pcs, poppler, python-urllib3, and wget), SUSE (gtk2, gtk3, kernel, python-setuptools, python310-setuptools, python312-setuptools, python39-setuptools, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (dotnet8, libcroco, linux-azure, linux-lowlatency, linux-raspi, and linux-oracle).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/985336/
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (httpd:2.4), Fedora (chromium, firefox, frr, neatvnc, nss, python-setuptools, and python3.13), Gentoo (AFLplusplus, Bundler, dpkg, GnuPG, GPAC, libde265, matio, MuPDF, PHP, protobuf, protobuf-python, protobuf-c, rsyslog, Ruby on Rails, and runc), Red Hat (389-ds-base, container-tools:rhel8, and httpd:2.4), SUSE (bind and ca-certificates-mozilla), and Ubuntu (linux-azure).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/984720/
It is something of a DebConf tradition that members of the Debian Technical
Committee (TC) take the stage to talk about the work that the committee
does—and more. DebConf24 in
Busan, South Korea was no exception, as TC chair Sean Whitton, who
will complete his term at the end of the year, and one
of its newest members, Stefano Rivera, described the constitutional
underpinnings of the TC, how it tries to make decisions when it needs to,
and the constant process of recruiting new members. After that, they took
a few questions from the audience. The session provided a nice overview of
the TC and its role in Debian, but it may well be of interest further afield.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/984807/
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freeradius and freeradius:3.0), Debian (chromium, odoo, and roundcube), Fedora (microcode_ctl, mingw-qt5-qtbase, mingw-qt6-qtbase, opentofu, orc, python-setuptools, and vim), Gentoo (Nokogiri), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (go-toolset:rhel8, golang, kernel, krb5, libtiff, python-setuptools, and python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9), SUSE (python-Django), and Ubuntu (krb5).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/984556/
There are lots of places in the kernel where an EINVAL can be
returned to user space, but it is often unclear what the actual underlying
problem is because the errno
error codes are too generic. That is the problem that Miklos Szeredi
wanted to discuss in a filesystem session that he led remotely at the 2024 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. He would like to help
those who are trying to debug problems trace where in the kernel a
particular error code is being generated.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/983870/
CircuitPython is an open-source
implementation of the Python programming language for microcontroller
boards. The project, which is sponsored by Adafruit Industries, is designed with
new programmers in mind, but it also has many features that may be of
interest to more-experienced developers. The recent 9.1.0 release
adds a few minor features, but it follows just a few months after CircuitPython 9.0.0,
which brings some more significant changes, including improved graphics and
USB support.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/983714/
David Howells wanted to discuss changing the way filesystem code handles
the ability to interrupt or kill operations, in order to fix some
longstanding problems with network
(and other) filesystems, in a session at
the 2024 Linux
Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. As noted in
his session
proposal, some filesystems may be expecting to not be interruptible,
but are calling code can take locks and mutexes that are interruptible (or
killable), which are effectively
changing the state of the task incorrectly.
He would like to find a solution for that problem.
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/984552/
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjdk-11), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, chromium, ffmpeg, hostapd, trafficserver, and wpa_supplicant), and Ubuntu (curl and linux-oem-6.5).
Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/983105/
At the 2024 Linux
Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, John Groves led
a session on famfs, which is a filesystem he has developed that uses the
kernel’s direct-access (DAX)
mechanism to access memory that is shareable between hosts. The discussion
was aimed at whether a different approach should be taken and, in
particular, whether FUSE should be used instead of implementing as an
in-kernel filesystem. As noted in the thread about his
proposal for an LSFMM+BPF session, and the mailing-list discussions on the first and second
version of his patch set, there is some skepticism that a new in-kernel
filesystem is warranted for the use case.