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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 5, 2024 is available.

Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller reports that the project's search to replace Pagure as its git forge is almost complete, with the Fedora Council strongly in favor of Forgejo:

The Council, currently, has a clear preference for Forgejo. This is a big decision and we don't want it to feel rushed. Therefore, we're opening this up one last time to everyone's comments. After two weeks, we'll take our formal vote — and then get on with the work!

LWN looked at Forgejo in February.

Linus Walleij writes about a pair of security features for 32-bit Arm systems; these landed in 6.10, but, he says, have now stabilized to the point that distributors may want to enable them.

PAN is an abbreviation for the somewhat grammatically incorrect Privileged Access Never. [...]

For modern ARM32 systems with large memories configured to use LPAE nothing like PAN was available: this version of the MMU simply did not implement a PAN option.

As of the patch originally developed by Catalin Marinas, we deploy a scheme that will use the fact that LPAE has two separate translation table base registers (TTBR:s): one for userspace (TTBR0) and one for kernelspace (TTBR1).

Linux offers two broad ways of performing I/O to files. Buffered I/O, which is the usual way of accessing a file, stores a copy of the transferred data in the kernel's page cache to speed future accesses. Direct I/O, instead, moves data directly between the storage device and a user-space buffer, avoiding the page cache. Both modes have their advantages and disadvantages. In 2019, Jens Axboe proposed an uncached buffered mode to get some of the advantages of both, but that effort stalled at the time. Now, uncached buffered I/O is back with some impressive performance results behind it.

Version 6.0.0 of the Hurl command-line tool has been released. Hurl is a curl-powered utility that runs HTTP requests and tests defined in a plain-text Hurl file. Notable features in this release include the ability to generate dynamic values with functions, shorter syntax, and an option to export Hurl files to a list of curl commands. See the release notes for a full list of changes and downloads.

"Első fokon 2 év 8 hónap börtönt kapott a férfi, aki kormányülés felrobbantásáról kommentelt Orbán Viktor Facebook-posztja alá" trey 2024. 12. 04., sze – 15:47

Security updates have been issued by Red Hat (go-toolset:rhel8, grafana, kernel, kernel-rt, kernel:4.18.0, pam, pam:1.5.1, pcs, postgresql:12, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, python3:3.6.8, qemu-kvm, rhc, rhc-worker-playbook, and virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel) and SUSE (ansible-10, ansible-core, avahi, bpftool, python, python3, python36, webkit2gtk3, and xen).

"Bemutatta a Jaguar, hogy képzelik el a luxusautózás jövőjét" trey 2024. 12. 04., sze – 15:21

2025 elejére már teljes lesz a szigor.

A megtakarítással rendelkezők 9-18%-a nem érti, hogy miért nem gyarapszik a pénze trey 2024. 12. 04., sze – 14:27

Egy startup külső perifériaként feltámasztotta a Macbook Pro-ról elűzött beviteli felületet.

2026-ig biztos a holland nagydíj az F1 versenynaptárában trey 2024. 12. 04., sze – 13:11

A számok jelenleg nem bíztatóak, de az Apple változtathat a helyzeten.

Az igazgatótanács már megkezdte az Intel új vezérigazgatójának a felkutatását, iparági veterán lehet Pat Gelsinger utódja.

A ChatGPT Search jelenlegi formájában még nehezen tudja beazonosítani forrásait.

"Már nem Bécs a világ legélhetőbb városa" trey 2024. 12. 04., sze – 09:57

Novemberben alig érkezett beadvány a hírközlési biztoshoz, a Vodafone továbbra is kissé kilóg a sorból.

John Carmack-ot aggasztja, hogy eltávolítják Pat Gelsinger-t az Intel éléről trey 2024. 12. 04., sze – 07:36

The traditional structure of a compiler forms a pipeline — parsing, type-checking, optimization, and code-generation, usually in that order. But modern programming languages have requirements that are ill-suited to such a design. Increasingly, compilers are moving toward other designs in order to support incremental compilation and low-latency responses for uses like integration into IDEs. Rust has, for the last eight years, been pursuing a particularly unusual design; in that time compile times have substantially improved, but there's still more work to be done.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, kernel, kernel-rt:4.18.0, kernel:4.18.0, pam, pam:1.5.1, perl-App-cpanminus, perl-App-cpanminus:1.7044, python-tornado, tigervnc, tuned, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (needrestart and webkit2gtk), Mageia (firefox, glib2.0, krb5, and thunderbird), Red Hat (firefox, postgresql, postgresql:12, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, and thunderbird), SUSE (editorconfig-core-c, kernel, php7, php8, python, python-tornado6, python3-virtualenv, python310, python39, thunderbird, wget, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (firefox and haproxy).