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06/11 Daphile 24.06

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Daphile is a minimal operating system for running a digital audio player on a headless computer. The operating system and media manager can be controlled remotely using a web-based interface.

06/11 SparkyLinux 7.4

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SparkyLinux is a lightweight, fast and simple Linux distribution designed for both old and new computers featuring customised Enlightenment and LXDE desktops. It has been built on the "testing" branch of Debian GNU/Linux.

LXQt 2.1.0 released

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Version 2.1.0 of the LXQt lightweight Qt desktop environment has been released. The highlight of this release is support for multiple Wayland compositors:

Through its new component lxqt-wayland-session, LXQt 2.1.0 supports 7 Wayland sessions (with Labwc, KWin, Wayfire, Hyprland, Sway, River and Niri), has two Wayland back-ends in lxqt-panel (one for kwin_wayland and the other general), and will add more later. All LXQt components that are not limited to X11 — i.e., most components — work fine on Wayland. [...]

Of course, the X11 session will be supported indefinitely. Wayland is optional and rather experimental.

jzb

[$] Safety in an unsafe world

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Joshua Liebow-Feeser took to the stage at RustConf to describe the methodology that his team uses to encode arbitrary constraints in the Rust type system when working on the Fuchsia operating system (slides). The technique is not unknown to the Rust community, but Liebow-Feeser did a good job of both explaining the method and making a case for why it should be used more widely.

daroc

The BPF instruction set architecture is now RFC 9669

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After a couple of years of effort, the BPF instruction set architecture has been accepted as RFC 9669, giving it a standard outside of the in-kernel implementation. This message from David Vernet (who also contributed an article on the standardization process last year) describes the process and why it is important:

Though some vendors have already implemented BPF offloading capabilities without having a standardized ISA, others are not quite as risk tolerant. As Christoph [Hellwig] discussed at LSFMM 2022, certain NVMe vendors have expressed an interest in building BPF offloading capabilities for various use cases such as eXpress Resubmission Path (XRP), but they simply can't fund such a project without certain components of BPF being standardized. Hence, the effort to standardize BPF was born.

corbet

Security updates for Tuesday

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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, openexr, and thunderbird), Fedora (llama-cpp and python-quart), Oracle (firefox, openexr, thunderbird, and xorg-x11-server and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), SUSE (chromium, govulncheck-vulndb, openssl-1_1, python311, and python312), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, linux-bluefield, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-ibm, openjpeg2, and ruby3.0, ruby3.2, ruby3.3).
corbet

[$] The OpenWrt One system

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OpenWrt is, despite its relatively low profile, one of our community's most important distributions; it runs untold numbers of network routers and has served as the base on which a lot of network-oriented development (including the bufferbloat-reduction work) has been done. At the beginning of 2024, a few members of the project announced a plan to design and produce a router device specifically designed to run OpenWrt. This device, dubbed the "OpenWrt One", is now becoming available; the kind folks at the Software Freedom Conservancy were kind enough to ship one to LWN, where the desire to play with a new toy is never lacking.
corbet

Security updates for Monday

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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, grafana, kernel, and mod_http2), Debian (chromium, openssl, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, krb5, mysql8.0, polkit, python-single-version, and webkitgtk), Mageia (bind, buildah, podman, skopeo, kernel, kmod-xtables-addons. kmod-virtualbox, kernel-firmware & kernel-firmware-nonfree radeon-firmware, and kernel-linus), SUSE (apache2, chromedriver, cups-filters, docker-stable, firefox, gama, govulncheck-vulndb, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-23-openjdk, libnss_slurm2, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, python-waitress, python3, python310-waitress, ruby2.5, rubygem-actionmailer-5_1, rubygem-actionpack-5_1, rubygem-bundler, webkit2gtk3, and xorg-x11-server), and Ubuntu (linux-azure-6.8).
jake