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- Linux Action News 279
We round up some news from FOSDEM 2023, update a 21-year-old project, and the Fedora fix that's been a few releases in the making.
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- FOSDEM 2023: Matrix 2.0
— In this talk we will explain the fundamental changes which are landing in Matrix 2.0, which speeds up Matrix to be at least as snappy as the fastest proprietary messaging apps - all while handling thousands of rooms spanning millions of users.- FOSDEM 2023: Fedora Asahi
— Asahi Fedora Remix exists to assist the Asahi community with Apple Silicon upstreaming and to provide a nifty ARM-based Fedora Workstation for those that own Apple Silicon hardware.- Fedora Asahi Aims To Provide The Fedora Workstation Experience For Apple Silicon Systems
- SIGs/Asahi - Fedora Project Wiki
- FOSDEM 2023: Podcasting 2.0
— In this talk we will show how the Podcasting 2.0 community is reinventing Podcasting by adding tons of new features, while keeping all this interoperable.- MythTV 33 Released
— Some of the MythTV 33 highlights include a new web interface for the MythTV setup experience, a new waveform visualization for the MythMusic area, and switching to the latest upstream FFmpeg release.- MythTV, Open Source DVR
- Linode's Green Light Beta Program
— Get early access and test new Linode products before they hit the market, provide valuable feedback to influence product direction, and become part of a community of developers helping us build the cloud that works for you.- Fedora 38 Change: Unfiltered Flathub
— This change would remove the filtering from our Flathub offering, so that users can enable a complete version of Flathub using the third party repositories feature.- Fedora 38 To Get Rid Of Its Flathub Filtering, Allowing Many More Apps On Fedora
- The Coder Robe | Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
— The Coder Robe is black and is a one-size-fits-most robe made from 100% cotton terry velour for soft, cozy wear. It is embroidered on the left chest with a classic white on black Coder Radio logo.17 min - Linux Action News 278
A lot happened in the free desktop world this week, we cover the impressive releases, changes, and surprises.
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- elementary OS 7 Available Now
— Today we’re proud to announce that OS 7, codenamed Horus, is available to download now and shipping soon on several high-quality computers.- Xfce Going Wayland
— That’s right, work on Xfce 4.20 kicked off earlier this month with the release of libxfce4windowing, a new dependency for the Xfce desktop environment to provide support for the next-generation Wayland display protocol.- Xfce / libxfce4windowing
- COSMIC DE has Speed
— Alex here with the latest batch of updates from System76 engineers on the development of COSMIC DE, as well as some Settings mockups where you can explore some of the new changes.- System76 Adding XWayland Support & Other Improvements
- Ubuntu Pro for All
— First released in a beta version in October 2022.- helloSystem 0.8
— helloSystem is now based on FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE. A desktop system for creators that focuses on simplicity, elegance, and usability.- helloSystem 0.8: A friendly, all-graphical FreeBSD
— Since most applications I am using on a daily basis are cross-platform and many of them are written in Qt, it seemed logical to choose Qt as the native toolkit for helloSystem.20 min - Linux Action News 277
An Ubuntu expiration date approaches, openSUSE has a new handy solution, and the container security issue that remains unfixed.
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- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS End Of Life
— Ubuntu 18.04 ‘Bionic Beaver’ is reaching End of Standard Support this April, also known sometimes as End Of Life (EOL).- Ubuntu 22.04.2 Point Release Delayed by 2 Weeks
— Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS was due for release on Thursday, February 9. However, the release has had to be delayed by two weeks, and is now scheduled to arrive on Thursday, February 23.- Ubuntu Pro
- Ubuntu Extended Security Maintenance
- Wine 8.0 is out now with major compatibility improvements
— One of the major changes here is the conversion to the PE format for various modules. This format is used by Windows, and an important milestone for Wine to increase compatibility with copy protection, 32-bit applications on 64-bit hosts, Windows debuggers and more.- openSUSE Making It Easier To Install H.264 Codec Support
— Inspired by the Fedora / Red Hat and Cisco collaboration around OpenH264 support, openSUSE/SUSE set out for a similar arrangement with Cicsco and its OpenH264 codecs.- Linux 6.2-rc5 Released
— Due to an uptick in activity this week and the downtime around Christmas / end-of-year holidays, Torvalds is planning on this cycle spanning through Linux 6.2-rc8 before going gold.- Linux 6.3 To Remove Obsolete GPU Drivers: ATI Rage 128, 3Dfx, S3 Savage, i810 & More
— Hitting the chopping block with the Linux 6.3 kernel are the following DRM drivers: i810, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, and via.- Kernel Security Korner
— The issue involved in that compromise became known as CVE-2019-5736 and a complex workaround was implemented in runC to prevent similar vulnerabilities in the future.16 min - Linux Action News 276
A high-profile Linux kernel network flaw, we put JFS on a death watch, and break down the controversial Firefox update this week.
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- A new privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel
— The vulnerability consists of a stack buffer overflow due to an integerunderflow vulnerability inside the nft_payload_copy_vlan function, which isinvoked with nft_payload expressions as long as a VLAN tag is present inthe current skb.- netfilter: nft_payload: add C-VLAN support · torvalds/linux@f6ae9f1
- CVE-2023-0179
- CVE-2023-0179- Red Hat Customer Portal
- [net,3/3] netfilter: nft_payload: incorrect arithmetics when fetching VLAN header bits - Patchwork
- oss-sec: Re: CVE-2023-0179: Linux kernel stack buffer overflow in nftables: PoC and writeup
- libvirt 9.0 Released For Latest Linux Virtualization API
— Libvirt 9.0 adds support for external snapshot deletion with QEMU using its existing API, libvirt 9.0 with QEMU now supports PASST as "Plug A Simple Socket Transport" for connecting an emulated network device to the host's network, QEMU external back-end support for SWTPM as a software Trusted Platform Module (TPM), support for passing file descriptors rather than passing files for the QEMU disk, and other additions.- JFS Filesystem’s Days are Numbered
— IBM developed the JFS file-system originally in the 90's for AIX and the second-generation implementation then ported to Linux after it was made open-source.- Firefox 109.0 Ships Manifest Version 3
— Manifest Version 3 (MV3) extension support is now enabled by default (MV2 remains enabled/supported). This major update also ushers an exciting user interface change in the form of the new extensions button.- Here’s what’s going on in the world of extensions
- Manage your extensions using the extensions button in the toolbar
- Manifest v3 signing available November 21 on Firefox Nightly
- Google delays start of Manifest V2 Chrome extension deprecation
— The original plan called for Chrome Beta, Dev, and Canary builds to start experiments that turned off Manifest V2 extension support. Additionally, Manifest V3 would be required to get the “Featured” badge in the Chrome Web Store.- Firefox 109 Adds New Extensions Button, Manifest V3 Support
— The biggest new feature is the new Unified Extensions button in the toolbar.- Chrome’s “Manifest V3” plan to limit ad-blocking extensions is delayed
- Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening
— Manifest V3, or Mv3 for short, is outright harmful to privacy efforts. It will restrict the capabilities of web extensions17 min - Linux Action News 275
OpenZFS has performance gains inbound, the end of a Linux era, and the achievement unlocked by the open-source NVIDIA driver.
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- KDE Plasma 5.27 To Provide Better Multi-Monitor Support
— KDE developer Marco Martin wrote a blog post today outlining some of the multi-monitor work that's been going into Plasma 5.27- This week in KDE: big UI improvements!
- Schedules/Plasma 5 - KDE Community Wiki
- KDE Kicks Off 2023 With UI Refinements, More Fixes
- GNOME 44 Hopes and Dreams
— GNOME devs are already working hard on the next major release, GNOME 44, due out in late March 2023 with more new features and enhancements.- Dynamic Triple Buffering Hopefully Will Land For GNOME 44
- OpenZFS Performance Gains
— With the combination of enabled prefetch and avoided memory copy this change improves sequential single-threaded read speed from a wide NVMe pool from 2049 to 3932 MiB/s. During write profiler shows 22% reduction of unhalted CPU cycles at the same throughput of 3653 MiB/s.- End of the 4.9 Series
— Greg KH: I'm announcing the release of the 4.9.337 kernel. All users of the 4.9 kernel series must upgrade.- Linux 6.1.4
- Linux 4.9.337 Released To End Out The 2016 LTS Series
- Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Starts to Play Games
— Red Hat engineer and longtime open-source Nouveau developer Karol Herbst wrote on his chaos.social account about NVK running games and showing off a screenshot of The Talos Principle running with this open-source, "community" Vulkan driver.- karolherbst on Social
- The Talos Principle
— The Talos Principle is a philosophical first-person puzzle game from Croteam, the creators of the legendary Serious Sam series, written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).13 min - Linux Action News 274
Android is getting RISC-Y, the handy new Google tool going open source, the next nail in the coffin for ZFS on Ubuntu, and why you were right about smart speakers all along.
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- Android Gets RISC-Y
— Google's keynote at the RISC-V Summit promises official, polished support.- Keynote: The Android Open Source Project and RISC-V - Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering
- New Google Tool Goes Open
— The OSV database is a distributed, open-source database that stores vulnerability information in the OSV format. The OSV-Scanner assesses a project's dependencies against the OSV database showing all vulnerabilities relating to the project.- Ubuntu’s New Installer Milestone
— With Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" in April that new desktop installer is poised to finally be used by default.- HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming
— "New Linux gaming milestone: with the latest work from Josh Ashton, HDR can now be enabled for real games! Tested it tonight on my AMD desktop with Halo Infinite, Deep Rock Galactic, DEATH STRANDING DC. Very early and will still need some time to bake to be useful to most."- Red Hat Planning HDR Hackfest
- GNOME Shell + Mutter 43 Alpha Released
- VKD3D-Proton 2.7 Released With Eight Months Worth Of Changes
- Google Home speakers allowed hackers to snoop on conversations
— A bug in Google Home smart speaker allowed installing a backdoor account that could be used to control it remotely and to turn it into a snooping device by accessing the microphone feed.18 min - Linux Action News 273
There are some stories so big they need a little more air time.
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- Akademy 2022: Full Steam ahead!
— In this talk I will share how Plasma fits into the Steamdeck and what aspects of KDE made us the right choice for their new userbase. I will then share some of the projects that contractors Blue Systems have been doing for Valve and how the work there benefits not just the Steamdeck but improves the ecosystem for all Plasma users.- GamingOnLinux category: Steam Deck
- Anaconda Web UI preview image
— Download the Anaconda Web UI preview image and boot it on VM or hardware that contains no important data.- Fedora 37 Hopes To Have A Preview Of The New Web-Based Install UI
- Libadwaita in the Wild
— It’s hard to believe, but Libadwaita is not even one year old, having first been released on December 31, 2021.- libadwaita
— Building blocks for modern GNOME applications.- Why the open source driver release from NVIDIA is so important for Linux?
— Today NVIDIA announced that they are releasing an open source kernel driver for their GPUs, so I want to share with you some background information and how I think this will impact Linux graphics and compute going forward.- Linux Action News 240
— NVIDIA has announced its plans for an open-source GPU driver. Christian Schaller, the Director for Desktop, Graphics, Infotainment and more at Red Hat, gives us the inside scoop on this historic announcement.- Nvidia Scraps ARM Acquisition After Regulatory Pressure, Owner SoftBank Prepares Chipmaker For IPO
- Chips are down: Nvidia abandons $40 billion deal to purchase Arm Holdings
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Why we won't see a new Raspberry Pi until 2025, the first steps to Plasma 6 are being taken, and PipeWire gets a major Bluetooth upgrade.
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- Raspberry Pi 5 Not Launching Until After 2023
— Don't expect a Pi 5 next year [2023]" Upton then expands and explains that 2023 is a "recovery year".- Eben Upton Interview: Raspberry Pi Availability & More! - YouTube
- Raspberry Pi Adds 100,000 Units to Supply Chain, Back to Pre-pandemic Levels in 2023 | Tom’s Hardware
— In the blog post, Upton acknowledged the patience of the community and offers the 100,000 units, made up of Raspberry Pi Zero W, 3A+ and Raspberry Pi 4 2GB and 4GB for single-unit sale. We don't know the breakdown of how many of each model there will be, but Upton does indicate that it is likely that Raspberry Pi Zero W will come back into stock first.- KDE Frameworks 5.101 Released
— Per the plans laid out earlier this year at the Akademy developer conference, KDE Frameworks 5 feature development stops following the v5.101 release. KDE Frameworks 5 will now just see maintenance updates moving forward.- Xfce 4.18 Released
— After almost two years of work, we are happy to announce the release of Xfce 4.18 !- Xfce 4.18 by muscaln · Pull Request #206282 · NixOS/nixpkgs
- PipeWire Bluetooth Improvements
— Most exciting with today's PipeWire 0.3.62 release is now supporting Bluetooth offloading.- Releases · PipeWire / wireplumber · GitLab
- Feature Preview: Gitea Actions
— Gitea Actions goes beyond just DevOps and lets you run workflows when other events happen in your repository.- act_runner
— A runner for Gitea based on act.- act
— Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀16 min - Linux Action News 271
Why the next kernel will be "the merge window from hell," a holiday gift for Wayland users, and how the open source community could do more to take on YouTube.
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- Wine on Wayland 2022 update: more games, more apps, more fun!
— Significant improvement compared to last year is support for cross-process rendering, which is required by Chromium/CEF applications. Last year the driver was able to run Chrome with the "--in-process" command-line option. Chrome is now supported without any special flags, and is fully GPU accelerated on both OpenGL and Vulkan!- A Wayland driver for Wine
- Wine on Wayland year-end update: improved functionality & stability
- Wine’s Wayland Driver Is Becoming Mature, May Aim For Upstreaming Early Next Year
- Linux 6.1 Released With MGLRU, Initial Rust Code
— Linux 6.1 integrates the exciting Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) overhaul of the page reclamation code, the initial Rust programming language support- The 6.1 kernel is out [LWN.net]
- Linux 6.2 Graphics Changes: Intel Arc Graphics Stable, Initial NVIDIA RTX 30 Acceleration
- Linux 6.2 Addresses Another “Tasty Target For Attackers”
- Linux 6.2 Expands Support For More Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs, Apple M1 Pro/Ultra/Max
- Intel On Demand Driver Ready To Activate Your Licensed CPU Features With Linux 6.2
- Btrfs With Linux 6.2 Bringing Performance Improvements, Better RAID 5/6 Reliability
- CERN recommendation for Linux distribution
— CERN and Fermilab jointly plan to provide AlmaLinux as the standard distribution for experiments at our facilities, reflecting recent experience and discussions with experiments and other stakeholders- CERN, Fermilab select AlmaLinux as standard for big science
- AlmaLinux 9.1 - Now Available - AlmaLinux OS Blog
- Stephan Dörner (in English) on Twitter
— CERN and Fermilab jointly plan to provide AlmaLinux as the standard distribution for experiments at our facilities- GCC Rust “gccrs” Code Merged Into Mainline GCC 13
— Following last week's approval with the GCC Rust v4 patches for them to be merged, all of the "gccrs" code was upstreamed this morning for GNU Compiler Collection 13.- PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting
— Five years later, we are releasing PeerTube v5, a tool used by hundreds of thousands people on a thousand interconnected platforms to share over 850,000 videos.- Support Framasoft
- Settings Link Missing after 5.0 Upgrade
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The Linux kernel has some exciting updates this week, including a significant Asahi milestone and some good news for Android. Then we take openSUSE's new web-based installer for a spin.
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- Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
— We’ve been working hard over the past two years to bring this new driver to everyone, and we’re really proud to finally be here. This is still an alpha driver, but it’s already good enough to run a smooth desktop experience and some games- Asahi Linux Enables Early Apple GPU Driver Support - WIP OpenGL 2.1 + GLES 2.0
- Apple Silicon CPUFreq Driver Heading To Linux 6.2
— Sent in yesterday were the Arm CPUFreq updates to queue in the Linux power management tree ahead of the Linux 6.2 merge window.- [GIT PULL] cpufreq/arm updates for 6.2 - Viresh Kumar
- Floppy Driver Update Ready For Linux 6.2
— This memory leak with the floppy disk driver has been in the mainline kernel since Linux 5.11- Android memory safety vulnerabilities declined as Rust usage grew
— Specifically, the number of annual memory safety vulnerabilities fell from 223 to 85 between 2019 and 2022. They are now 35% of Android’s total vulnerabilities versus 76% four years ago. In fact, “2022 is the first year where memory safety vulnerabilities do not represent a majority of Android’s vulnerabilities.”- Google says Android runs better when covered in Rust
- Fedora 38 Cleared To Produce “Mobility Phosh” Spins
— The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has provided their blessing to begin creating new x86_64 and AArch64 ISO images for mobile devices that feature the Phosh Wayland compositor.- Ping bug potentially allows remote hack of FreeBSD systemsSecurity Affairs
— A remote attacker can trigger the vulnerability, causing the ping program to crash and potentially leading to remote code execution in ping.- D-Installer needs your help
— Today we published a new prototype of D-Installer, fixing several bugs reported by early testers and improving the usage experience in some areas like the configuration of passwords and users. But beyond those improvements, a couple of new features deserve some attention.- Bug 1205938 – D-Installer - Slowness initialization on real hardware
- GitHub - yast/d-installer: A service-based Linux installer
- openSUSE’s D-Installer Adds LVM & Full Disk Encryption Configuration
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