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The FreeBSD Foundation has announced the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report. The report provides a summary of 1,446 responses to an anonymous online survey of FreeBSD users. It provides insights into user profiles, typical usage, how the FreeBSD project is viewed, as well as recommendations for expanding the FreeBSD community and contributor base:

Currently fewer than half of users consider FreeBSD their daily driver; Individuals are less likely than Corporate Users to consider FreeBSD primary. The barrier seems to be less about software and more about hardware support, particularly around Wi-Fi drivers (which are at the top of the wish list for the Foundation to focus on in the coming year). A relatively high number of those who don't consider FreeBSD their main OS say they would consider doing so with hardware support for desktops and laptops that was equivalent to Linux.

The raw data for the survey is available as well.

When redesigning the LWN site in 2002, we thought long and hard about whether the ability to post comments should be part of it; LWN had not offered that feature for the first four years of its existence. There were already plenty of examples of how comments can go bad by then, but we decided to trust our readers to keep things under control. Much of the time, that trust has proved justified, but there have been times where things have not gone so well. This time is quickly becoming one of those others.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (glibc and tomcat), Fedora (chromium, fcitx5-qt, python-pyqt6, qadwaitadecorations, qgnomeplatform, qt6, qt6-qt3d, qt6-qt5compat, qt6-qtbase, qt6-qtcharts, qt6-qtcoap, qt6-qtconnectivity, qt6-qtdatavis3d, qt6-qtdeclarative, qt6-qtgraphs, qt6-qtgrpc, qt6-qthttpserver, qt6-qtimageformats, qt6-qtlanguageserver, qt6-qtlocation, qt6-qtlottie, qt6-qtmqtt, qt6-qtmultimedia, qt6-qtnetworkauth, qt6-qtopcua, qt6-qtpositioning, qt6-qtquick3d, qt6-qtquick3dphysics, qt6-qtquicktimeline, qt6-qtremoteobjects, qt6-qtscxml, qt6-qtsensors, qt6-qtserialbus, qt6-qtserialport, qt6-qtshadertools, qt6-qtspeech, qt6-qtsvg, qt6-qttools, qt6-qttranslations, qt6-qtvirtualkeyboard, qt6-qtwayland, qt6-qtwebchannel, qt6-qtwebengine, qt6-qtwebsockets, qt6-qtwebview, and zeal), Red Hat (glibc, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, linux-firmware, mod_http2, pcp, pcs, protobuf, python3, rpm-ostree, and rust), SUSE (git, glibc-livepatches, kernel, libxml2, openssl-1_1, SUSE Manager Client Tools, SUSE Manager Client Tools, salt, and xdg-desktop-portal), and Ubuntu (amavisd-new, firefox, flask-security, frr, git, intel-microcode, jinja2, libreoffice, linux-intel-iotg, unbound, and webkit2gtk).

Az elmúlt hét az adatvédelmi szakértők szerint megkérdőjelezhető Recall funkcióról szól.

Mostantól a 3500 dolláros headseten is lehet játszani a Job Simulatorral és a Vacation Simulatorral.

A vélhetően a Google-től kiszivárgott dokumentumok részletesebb betekintést engednek a kereső működési elveibe.

A szolgáltató a hatósággal történő egyeztetést követően tett vállalásokat.

A Windows 11 ősszel érkező csomagjának telepítése kitakarítja a Microsoft által elavultnak címkézett, régebben alapértelmezetten a rendszer részét képező alkalmazásokat.

Linux Lite is a beginner-friendly Linux distribution based on Ubuntu's long-term support (LTS) release and featuring the Xfce desktop. Linux Lite primarily targets Windows users. It aims to provide a complete set of applications to assist users with their everyday computing needs, including a full office suite, media players and other essential daily software.

A céget már csak egy hajszál választja el az Apple-től, a növekedés ráadásul továbbra sem lassul.

Berry Linux is a bootable CD Linux with automatic hardware detection and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. Berry Linux can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD or as a rescue system. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk, although this option is also available (it needs 1.2GB of hard disk space). Berry Linux is based on Fedora (previously it was based on Red Hat Linux and KNOPPIX).

The GCC project has been working to support compiling to BPF for some time. José Marchesi and David Faust spoke in an extended session at the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit about how that work has been going, and what is left for GCC to be on-par with LLVM with regard to BPF support. They also related tentative plans for how GCC BPF support would be maintained in the future.

Rhino Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution which offers a rolling-release upgrade approach. The distribution uses a customised Xfce desktop environment. Rhino features a custom meta package manager which unifies Deb, Pacstall and Flatpak software management.

AlmaLinux OS is an open-source, community-driven project that is built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). AlmaLinux is a completely binary compatible fork of RHEL and it is maintained by AlmaLinux OS Foundation which is a register non-profit.

The iomap block-mapping abstraction is being used by more filesystems, in part because of its support for large folios. But there are some challenges in adopting iomap, which was the topic of a discussion led by Ritesh Harjani in a combined storage and filesystem session at the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. One of the main trouble spots is how to handle metadata, which is not an area that iomap has been aimed at.

In the final session in the memory-management track of the 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit, the exhausted group of developers looked one more time at the use of huge pages and the associated problem of memory fragmentation. At its worst, this problem can make huge pages harder (and more expensive) to allocate. Luis Chamberlain, who ran the session, felt that people were worried about this problem, but that there was little data on how severe it truly is.

A longstanding tradition in the memory-management track of the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit is a session with maintainer Andrew Morton to discuss the overall state of the community and the development process. The 2024 gathering upheld that tradition toward the end of the final day of the event. It seems that Morton and the assembled developers were all happy with how memory-management work is going, but there is always room for improvement.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (less), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable), SUSE (apache2, java-1_8_0-openj9, kernel, libqt5-qtnetworkauth, and openssl-3), and Ubuntu (netatalk and python-cryptography).

Legalábbis az Apple és Samsung okostelefonjait választó felhasználókhoz képest.

Növekvő ütemben terjed az internethasználat az idősebbek körében, bár a szépkorúak továbbra is lemaradásban vannak.