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FreeBSD phasing out 32-bit platforms

Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/961871/

The FreeBSD Project has announced that it intends to deprecate 32-bit platformsover the next couple of major releases“.

We anticipate FreeBSD 15.0 will not include the armv6, i386, and powerpc platforms, and FreeBSD 16.0 will not include armv7. Support for executing 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels will be retained through at least the lifetime of the stable/16 branch if not longer.

The announcement notes that support for some 32-bit platforms “may be extended if there is both demand and commitment to increased developer resources“. More details about the current plans for 32-bit platforms are available in the FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE Release Notes.

[$] Another runc container breakout

Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/961086/

Once again, runc—a tool
for spawning and running OCI containers—is drawing attention due to a high
severity container breakout attack
. This vulnerability is interesting for
several reasons: its potential for widespread impact, the continued difficulty
in actually containing containers, the dangers of running containers
as a privileged user, and the fact that this vulnerability is made possible
in part by a response to a previous
container breakout flaw in runc
.

Introducing Fedora Atomic Desktops (Fedora Magazine)

Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/961653/

Fedora Magazine has announced the creation Fedora Atomic Desktops: a way of branding Fedora’s growing set of rpm-ostree spins. Joseph Gayso wrote “we’ve seen more of our mainline Fedora Linux spins make the jump to offer a version that implements rpm-ostree. It’s reached the point where it can be hard to talk about all of them at the same time. Therefore we’ve introduced a new brand that will serve to simplify how we discuss rpm-ostree and how we name future atomic spins.” LWN covered Project Bluefin, which is based on Fedora’s rpm-ostree work, in December of 2023.