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Kicinski: netdev in 2024

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8 hónap 1 hét óta
Kernel networking maintainer Jakub Kicinski reviews progress in the networking subsystem in 2024.

Work on relieving the rtnl_lock pressure has continued throughout the year. The rtnl_lock is often mentioned as one of the biggest global locks in the kernel, as it protects all of the network configuration and state. The efforts can be divided into two broad categories – converting read operations to rely on RCU protection or other fine grained locking (v6.9, v6.10), and splitting the lock into per-network namespace locks (preparations for which started in v6.13).

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2024 in retrospect (Gentoo News)

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8 hónap 1 hét óta

Gentoo Linux has published a project retrospective that looks at the major improvements and news from 2024, the Gentoo Foundation's finances, and contributions to Gentoo by the numbers.

The number of commits to the main ::gentoo repository has remained at an overall high level in 2024, with a 2.4% increase from 121000 to 123942. The number of commits by external contributors has grown strongly from 10708 to 12812, now across 421 unique external authors.

The importance of GURU, our user-curated repository with a trusted user model, as entry point for potential developers, is clearly increasing as well. We have had 7517 commits in 2024, a strong growth from 5045 in 2023. The number of contributors to GURU has increased a lot as well, from 158 in 2023 to 241 in 2024. Please join us there and help packaging the latest and greatest software.

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[$] 2024 Linux and free software timeline

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8 hónap 1 hét óta

In the past, LWN had a tradition of publishing a timeline of notable events from the previous year in early January. We thought we might try reviving that tradition in 2025 to see if our readers find it useful. While we have covered these events as they happened, it's interesting to see how much has taken place in just 12 months.

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Firefox 134.0 released

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8 hónap 1 hét óta

Version 134.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include support for touchpad hold gestures on Linux, a refreshed layout for the New Tab page for users in the US and Canada, and improved support for debugging web extensions.

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Security updates for Tuesday

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8 hónap 1 hét óta
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (python-requests), Oracle (python-requests), SUSE (python-Jinja2 and rizin), and Ubuntu (ceph, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-hwe-6.8, linux-intel-iotg, linux-oem-6.11, linux-raspi-5.4, and salt).
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