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The
5.15.14,
5.10.91,
5.4.171,
4.19.225,
4.14.262,
4.9.297, and
4.4.299 stable kernel updates have all been
released; each contains another set of important fixes.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (clamav, vim, and wordpress), Mageia (ghostscript, osgi-core, apache-commons-compress, python-django, squashfs-tools, and suricata), openSUSE (libsndfile, net-snmp, and systemd), Oracle (httpd:2.4, ker…

The GTK-based Anaconda installer has long been used to set up Fedora,
CentOS, and RHEL systems. This Fedora Community Blog entry describes
some significant changes that will appear in a future version of
Anaconda:

We will rewrite the new UI …

The 5.16 kernel was released
on January 9, as expected. This development cycle incorporated 14,190
changesets from 1,988 developers; it was thus quite a bit busier than its
predecessor, and fairly typical for recent kernel releases in gen…

Here is a
comprehensive look on the Libre Arts site at the current state of free
software for creative
artists.

The other reason is that, with a project like GIMP, it’s hard to do
just one thing. The team is constantly bombarded with reques…

Bleeping Computer reports
on the latest NPM mess: the developer of the “faker” module deleted the
code and it’s development history from GitHub (with a force push), replaced
it with a malicious alternative, and broke dependencies for numerous
ap…

Bleeping Computer reports
on the latest NPM mess: the developer of the “faker” module deleted the
code and its development history from GitHub (with a force push), replaced
it with a malicious alternative, and broke dependencies for numerous
app…

Linus Torvalds has released the 5.16
kernel, as expected. Significant changes in 5.16 include
the futex_waitv() system call,
cluster-aware CPU scheduling,
some internal memcpy() hardening,
memory folios,
the DAMON operating schemes
user-space m…

Linux supports processor architectures where CPUs in the same system
might have
different processing capacities; for example, the Arm big.LITTLE
systems combine fast, power-hungry CPUs with slower, more efficient
ones. Linux has also run for ye…

The Unix signal
interface is complex and hard to work with; some developers
have argued that its design is
“unfixable”. So when Walt Drummond proposed
increasing the number of signals that Linux systems could manage, eyebrows
could be observed…