White paper: Vendor Kernels, Bugs and Stability https://lwn.net/Articles/973996/ #LWN
🚀 📱 phosh 0.39.0 is out. Some highlights:
- #phosh: folder support, night light quick setting
- #phoc: wakeup-key handling (to prevent accidental unblank)
- #squeekboard: New layouts, lots of layout improvements
- mobile-settings: Allow to manage custom quick settings, allow to toggle whether to ignore hw keyboards, many new translations
Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.39.0/
#librem5 #pinephone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile
Winamp, the iconic music player, reinvigorates nostalgia as it turns open source under FreeLLama, inviting global devs to evolve its legacy.
https://linuxiac.com/winamp-becomes-open-source-under-the-freellama-name/
Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code
"Canonical is also planning on growing the #Ubuntu Desktop team by "at least another 50%" over the next year."
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.10-Roadmap
via @phoronix
Security updates for Friday https://lwn.net/Articles/974055/ #tech #linux
A repository that teaches pipeline set-up for Static Library Build, Application Build and Deployment using legacy Conan Package Manager
https://github.com/electricalgorithm/conan-threesome-library-application-server
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://github.com/electricalgorithm/conan-threesome-library-application-server
Thanks for taking the time to read our work! We’re excited for you to see what’s next in the pipeline.
If you haven’t yet explored thermodynamic computing, here is the best place to start 👇
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05660
https://normalcomputing.substack.com/p/thermodynamic-ai-intelligence-from
Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.
Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.
We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.
Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.
This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!
Why a 'frozen' distribution Linux kernel isn't the safest choice for security
https://ciq.com/blog/why-a-frozen-linux-kernel-isnt-the-safest-choice-for-security/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://ciq.com/blog/why-a-frozen-linux-kernel-isnt-the-safest-choice-for-security/
We evaluated the impact of the latest TunnelVision attack (CVE-2024-3661) and have found it to be very similar to TunnelCrack LocalNet (CVE-2023-36672 and CVE-2023-35838).
Read more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/evaluating-the-impact-of-tunnelvision
firefox will now track your searches by default and you'd have no way of knowing they're doing that unless you look for this random blog post on their website: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/
it does look like you can turn it off at least.
GNOME OS's transition to systemd-sysupdate promises secure and swift updates for a safer, more consistent OS.
https://linuxiac.com/gnome-os-migrates-to-systemd-sysupdate/
Tails 6.3 security-focused Linux distro released with Romanian & Malayalam translations and an updated Tor Browser to 13.0.15.
https://linuxiac.com/tails-6-3-rolls-out-with-updated-tor-browser/