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Debian 11, codenamed “bullseye”, has been released after just over two years of development. It has lots of updates, including to half a dozen different desktop environments, lots of tools and programming languages, and, of course, more. It is …

The KDE project has announced the release of KDE Gear 21.08, which updates the over 200 apps that are part of the project. The announcement highlights updates in many of the desktop tools that KDE Plasma users are accustomed to, including the O…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (commons-io, curl, and firefox-esr), Fedora (perl-Encode), openSUSE (golang-github-prometheus-prometheus, grafana, and python-reportlab), Oracle (.NET Core 2.1, 389-ds:1.4, cloud-init, go-toolset:ol8, …

The Linux Foundation has announced the formation of the eBPF Foundation:

Founding members include Facebook, Google, Isovalent, Microsoft and Netflix. This comes in advance of the eBPF Summit, a free and virtual event taking place August 18-19,…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 5.13.10, 5.10.58, 5.4.140, and 4.19.203 stable kernels. As usual, they all
contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree; users of those series
should upgrade.

Security updates have been issued by CentOS (java-1.8.0-openjdk), Debian (firefox-esr, libspf2, and openjdk-11-jre-dcevm), Fedora (bluez, fetchmail, and prosody), Oracle (edk2, glib2, kernel, and libuv), Red Hat (.NET Core 3.1), SUSE (cpio), and…

Child pornography and other types of sexual abuse of children are unquestionably
heinous crimes; those who participate in them should be caught and severely
punished. But some recent efforts to combat these scourges have gone a good
ways down t…

Security updates have been issued by Debian (ceph), Fedora (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, and podman), openSUSE (chromium, kernel, php7, python-CairoSVG, python-Pillow, seamonkey, and transfig), Red Hat (microcode_ctl), SUSE (kernel and …

Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” was
released in Cinnamon,
MATE, and
Xfce editions on July 8. This new
version of the popular desktop-oriented distribution has several
improvements, including changes to the Update Manager, a new “Sticky
Notes” ap…

Security updates have been issued by CentOS (flatpak and microcode_ctl), Debian (c-ares, lynx, openjdk-8, and tomcat9), Fedora (kernel), openSUSE (apache-commons-compress, aria2, djvulibre, fastjar, kernel, libvirt, linuxptp, mysql-connector-jav…