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Linux : Kali Linux 2024.2 Released

Linux
Wilson (42865)
 Published at 14:56 Friday, June 7, 2024
From space war
The penetration test release Kali Linux released the latest 2024.2. The main new features include: the desktop environment has been updated to GNOME 46, the Xfce environment has added HiDPI mode, the network reconnaissance tool AutoRecon has been updated, the command line tool pspy for monitoring Linux processes, and the SploitScan tool for extracting and displaying CVE information. Kali Linux is based on Debian beta version, and is transitioning to 64 bit time_t to avoid problems in 2038. Therefore, users need to follow the document recommendations when upgrading.

Linux : Temporary files in Debian's next version will be switched from disk based to memory based

Debian
Wilson (42865)
 Published on Wednesday, 22:12, June 5, 2024
From Fantasia
The 2012 Debian release discussed switching temporary files from the disk based solution to the memory based solution tmpfs, but eventually inertia won. However, 12 years later, Debian 13 ("Trixie"), the next release of Debian, will switch to a temporary memory based file system, and the temporary files in/tmp and/var/tmp will be automatically cleaned up on a regular basis by default. Many Linux distributions have switched to memory based tmpfs, including Arch Linux, Fedora, openSUSE Tumbleweed, etc. However, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its clones, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), openSUSE Leap, and Ubuntu still use disk based/tmp. Last month, Debian developers discussed this issue again and finally announced to switch to tmpfs.

security : Linux Mint disables unauthenticated Flatpak packages by default

security
Wilson (42865)
 Published at 23:30 Monday, June 3, 2024
From the Ark
The Linux Mint distribution project indicates that its software manager will disable unauthenticated Flatpak packages by default. The Software Manager also displays a warning message to let users know the security risks of using unverified software packages. Flatpak is a package format led by Red Hat, similar to Canonical's Snap package format. Its Ubuntu distribution no longer supports Flatpak by default. Linux Mint said that if users allow unauthenticated Flatpak software packages, its software manager will clearly mark them.

Hardware : Three quarters of Linux players on Steam platform use AMD CPU

AMD
Wilson (42865)
 Published at 16:52 Monday, June 3, 2024
Laughter from the Cyclops
According to the Steam hardware and software survey released by Valve, the share of Linux has increased by 0.42% to 2.32% in the past May, the macOS has increased to 1.47%, and Windows has dropped to 96.21%. Three quarters of all Steam Linux players use AMD CPUs, which largely benefits from the popularity of the handheld Steam Deck, which uses customized AMD APUs. This also benefits from AMD's support for open source and Ryzen's excellent performance. Most AMD CPU players also use AMD GPUs. Among the languages used by Steam players, simplified Chinese slightly decreased by 0.82% to 29.49%, while English players increased by 4.87% to 38.05%.

Linux : Kdenlive 24.05.0 release

KDE
Wilson (42865)
 Published on Friday, May 31, 2024 at 23:42
From different star battlefield
The nonlinear video editor project Kdenlive announced the release of the latest 24.05.0. The features of the new version include: adding Group Effects to a group of video clips, rendering videos with multiple picture scales, and automatically translating subtitles using SeamlessM4T; Enhanced stability, significantly improved performance, etc.

Linux : Linux 6.10 rc1 release

Linux
Wilson (42865)
 Published on Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 00:00
From White Rose
Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 6.10 rc1 on the kernel mailing list, and its release code was changed to Baby Opossum Pose. The code used before the 6. x series kernel was Hurr durr I'ma ninja slot. New features of Linux 6.10 include: improved AMD and Intel CPU Support, improve AMDKFD computing driver support for "small" Ryzen APUs, disable NFS v2 clients by default, Steam Deck IMU support, improve Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite support, IO_uring zero copy performance optimization, stop supporting old DEC alpha hardware, improve the performance of opening unencrypted files, and so on.

Linux : Linux 6.10 merged the last ReiserFS request submitted by Hans Reiser

Linux
Wilson (42865)
 Published on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at 16:00
Inheritance from blood
At the end of last year, Hans Reiser, author of ReiserFS file system, who was sentenced to 15 life imprisonment for murdering his wife, responded to the discussion about removing ReiserFS from Linux kernel in prison. He put forward the last ReiserFS change request: edit the README file, add Mikhail Gilula, Konstantin Shvachko and Anatoly Pinchuk to the developer list (credits), delete what he might have said about why these people should not be included in the list, and it is time to let go. According to his indirect request, SUSE developer Jan Kara changed the README file of ReiserFS and submitted it to the Linux 6.10 kernel. This change has been formally incorporated into the new kernel.

Linux : Ubuntu 24.10 will use Wayland by default for Nvidia users

Ubuntu
Wilson (42865)
 Published at 13:20 Monday, May 20, 2024
From a man who can fly
Ubuntu switched to Wayland for the first time in 2017 and used it as the default display server. But the following year, Xorg/X11 was used again by default. In 2021, it will switch to Wayland again, and there will be no change thereafter. However, for NVIDIA graphics card users, Ubuntu still uses Xorg/X11 by default. The reason is that the private driver of NVIDIA graphics card does not fully support Wayland. The situation has changed in the past few years. Nvidia has improved its support for Wayland, which has actually become the standard display server used by mainstream Linux distributions. Although Nvidia's graphics card support for Wayland is not perfect, Canonical engineers expressed their confidence in Nvidia's user experience of using Wayland by default.

Linux : Red Hat and CIQ provide extended support for RHEL 7

Redhat
Wilson (42865)
 Published at 17:59 Monday, May 13, 2024
From the seeker
Red Hat's enterprise release RHEL 7 was officially released on June 10, 2014, and its 10-year support will end on June 30, 2024. The good news for RHEL 7 users is that Red Hat will provide four years of extended support, or Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS). CentOS Linux 7 will also stop supporting on the same day, and CIQ, the developer of Rocky Linux, a distribution based on CentOS 7 refactoring, announced that it will also provide extended support, which will provide CentOS 7 users with software packages and security updates for an additional three years. Its extended support is called CIQ Bridge, which is designed to help CentOS 7 users migrate to Rocky Linux before ending support. CIQ found that hundreds of thousands of users still use CentOS Linux 7, so there is still a large market space.

Linux : Linux kernel 6.9 release

Linux
Wilson (42865)
 Published at 14:08 Monday, May 13, 2024
From a good omen
Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux Kernel 6.9 on the kernel mailing list. The main new features include: support the creation of file descriptors pidfds for each thread; BPF arena subsystem; BPF token security mechanism; Io_uring supports truncate(); 64 bit Arm (ARM64) architecture supports Rust language; The memory allocation strategy of memory management subsystem supports weighting; FUSE Express support; Discard ext2 file system driver; Support GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) named address space function to optimize data access of each CPU; wait. More can be found in kernelnewbies.

Linux : Nvidia uses the open source kernel driver as the default driver for new GPUs such as Turing

Linux
Wilson (42865)
 Published on Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 23:31
From your name
Nvidia plans to use the open source kernel driver as the default driver for newer GPUs such as GeForce RTX 2000 "Turing". This plan does not involve user space driven and NVIDIA's CUDA and other closed source software. Nvidia launched its open source kernel driver for GPUs in 2022, initially targeting workstations/data center GPUs. With the improvement of open source kernel drivers compared with private kernel drivers, the performance of open source driver modules is almost the same as that of closed source drivers on consumer GeForce GPUs. Nvidia plans to use open source kernel drivers by default for newer GPUs such as Turing, Future GPUs may only support open source kernel drivers. Nvidia recently hired the former maintainer of Nouveau kernel driver, and its engineers are also contributing code to open source NVK driver, but there is no indication that it plans to open source user space driver.

Linux : GNOME earned 556000 dollars last year and spent 676000 dollars

GNOME
Wilson (42865)
 Published on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 18:51
From Miracle Boy and Frost Giant
The GNOME Foundation released its annual report for 2023, disclosing that the income of last year was 556136 million dollars and the expenditure was 675947 dollars. Most of the income comes from fundraising, totaling 422000 dollars, which is significantly higher than the 171000 dollars in 2022, but the expenditure is still far greater than the income. The Foundation has said that it will increase efforts to raise funds this year. Of the expenditure in 2023, $283000 will be used for meetings, $105000 for support and infrastructure, $96000 for outreach, and $121000 for administration. In 2023, the expenditure of the Foundation will be nearly 120000 dollars more than the income.

Linux : Ubuntu 24.10 Code: Oracle Oriole

Ubuntu
Wilson (42865)
 Published on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 18:16
From under the locust tree
The next 24.10 code of the Ubuntu distribution that will be released in October is Oracle Oriole. With the increasing complexity of the code name formed by the combination of adjectives and animals in alphabetical order, its importance is also declining. It is more reflected in the package archive name of Ubuntu. As the next version after the LTS version, it is still two years away from the next LTS version, which means that the developers of Ubuntu 24.10 can be more creative. Ubuntu 24.10 is expected to use Linux 6.11 kernel, GNOME 47 desktop environment, GCC 14.1 compiler, and will provide out of the box support for the upcoming Intel Lunar Lake platform, Battlemage graphics card, AMD Zen 5, AMD RDNA4 graphics card and other new hardware.

Linux : HardendedVault builds a security enhanced version of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Ubuntu
Wilson (42865)
 Published at 11:28 Monday, April 29, 2024
From Young Xia
Shawn the R0ck wrote: Recently, Canonical released the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS version, bringing a comprehensive upgrade of free and open source software components. Following closely, Hardened Linux of HardenedVault also transplanted the security reinforcement scheme to Ubuntu 24.04 and launched the x86_64/amd64 hardware architecture version on AWS marketplace. The default configuration includes many security functions, such as CIS/STIG security baseline, community rules for mandatory access control AppArmor, ClamAV antivirus software, Auditd monitoring service, DNS privacy protection scheme DNSCrypt proxy, etc., while runtime protection VED-LTS is also adapted to the Linux 6.8 core.

Since its launch in 2022, Hardened Linux has supported amd64/x86_64 and arm64 hardware architectures, and provided AWS and on premise versions, which has won the favor of users from all walks of life, including university research institutions, security companies, custodian, blockchain verification nodes, industry, etc. Among them, an exciting smart factory project uses Hardened Linux, which requires the use of industrial Raspberry Pi+PLC (Programmable logic controller). Therefore, VED (Vault Exploit Defense) is deployed on the arm64 hardware architecture on a large scale.

Linux : GNOME Foundation will increase fund-raising efforts

GNOME
Wilson (42865)
 Published at 14:04 Sunday, April 28, 2024
From Duma
The non-profit foundation supporting the GNOME desktop environment project announced that it would increase its fund-raising efforts. Robert McQueen, chairman of GNOME Foundation, said that the foundation was in deficit for more than three years, that is, the annual expenditure was higher than the annual fundraising, and it mainly relied on the large donation reserve raised 4-5 years ago. One of the Foundation's policies requires the retention of a minimum amount of reserves. Therefore, when there is a major interruption in revenue, core businesses can be retained while seeking new sources of funds. At present, the fund is close to the red line, and the Board of Directors cannot approve more deficit budgets. In order to maintain the same level of expenditure, it is necessary to increase income. The foundation hired Holly Million as the executive director last October, and she is making a fund-raising plan.

Linux : Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat Released

Ubuntu
Wilson (42865)
 Published at 14:00 Friday, April 26, 2024
From Alien Born
Canonical released Ubuntu 24.04, code named Noble Numbat, which is its 10th long-term support version, with a maximum of 12 years of support (for a fee). The main changes of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS include: Linux 6.8 kernel, GNOME 46 desktop environment, new graphic firmware update tool Firmware Updater, network management tool Netplan 1.0, updating Ubuntu fonts, supporting deb822 software source format, improving vm.max_map_count, Mozilla Thunderbird uses the Snap packaging format by default, updates the Flutter based graphical desktop installer, new default installation options, and the 64 bit architecture enables frame pointers by default.

Linux : Andreas Tille was elected DPL

Debian
Wilson (42865)
 Published on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 17:32
From Labyrinth House
The annual Debian Project Leader (DPL) election announced the election results: Andreas Tille was elected. There are two candidates in this election: Andreas Tille and Sluthi Chandran. The last DPL Jonathan Carter did not participate in the election. He was elected the first DPL in history for four consecutive years, and his first term of office began in 2020. Andreas Tille has been involved in the project for 25 years. He has been a grandfather. He previously served as Debian Med leader. His agenda is to ensure that Debian keeps pace with the times in the rapidly changing operating system ecosystem; Sruthi Chandran is an Indian who has changed from a librarian to a free software enthusiast and Debian developer. His agenda is mainly focused on diversification. The election of DPL adopts Condorcet voting method.

Linux : Fedora Linux 40 released

Redhat
Wilson (42865)
 Published on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 23:07
From Duma
The Fedora Linux distribution released v40. Major changes include GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6.0, and Linux 6.8. Other software changes include: Golang 1.22 LLVM 18、Ruby 3.3、 Remove OpenSSL 1.1 and GDBM instead of BerkeleyDB, GCC 13 and Mesa 24.0 graphics drivers that have stopped maintenance. Fedora Linux 40 will be the foundation of CentOS Stream 10 and the future enterprise release Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

science and technology : Linus Torvalds on AI hype

artificial intelligence
Wilson (42865)
 Published at 22:56 Saturday, April 20, 2024
From human to where
Linus Torvalds talked with Dirk Hohndel, the head of Verizon Open Source Program Office, about the hot AI in the near future. Torvalds ironically said, "It looks funny! Maybe I will be replaced by AI model!" Hohndel thought that today's AI is just a more powerful automatic correction tool. Torvalds believes that it will take another ten years to know where AI will go. Torvalds has noticed the impact of the AI craze on the kernel. As the biggest beneficiary of the AI craze, Nvidia has more frequent communication between its developers and kernel developers. The company is improving the memory management of the kernel because it needs Linux to run the AI model more efficiently. Torvalds expressed caution about the wrong information generated by AI. Hohndel jokingly said that this is beautiful science, "beautiful science advances, beautiful science emerges."

science and technology : Benchmarks show that Ubuntu 24.04 outperforms Windows 11 on the same laptop

Windows
Wilson (42865)
 Published at 22:16 Friday, April 19, 2024
From the castle in the sky
Phoronix compares the performance of Ubuntu 23.10, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Windows 11 on the same laptop, and shows that Ubuntu 24.04 performs best. The laptop evaluated is Framework 16, equipped with AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS SoC, Radeon RX 7700S graphics card, 512GB SN810 NVMe SSD, MediaTek MT7922 WiFi and 2560 x 1600 display screen. The author has completed 101 benchmark tests in total, among which, Ubuntu 24.04 leads in 67% of the tests, Ubuntu 23.10 leads in 22% of the tests (slightly different from 24.04), and Windows 11 leads only in 10% of the tests. On average, Ubuntu 23.10 is 16% faster than Windows 11, while Ubuntu 24.04 is 20% faster than Windows 11.

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