Subscription required [LWN.net]
Looking up a file given a path name seems like a straightforward task, but it turns...
Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cups, nginx, and openjdk-7), Fedora (httpd, mod_md, nghttp2, and...
Subscription required [LWN.net]
In what was to prove something of a theme throughout the morning, Hugh Blemings said that...
Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (nginx), openSUSE (ImageMagick and putty), Red Hat (Ansible, atomic-openshift-web-console,...
Backdoor code found in 11 Ruby libraries (ZDNet) [LWN.net]
ZDNet reports on the discovery of a set of malicious libraries in the RubyGems repository. "The...
Backdoors in Webmin [LWN.net]
Anybody using Webmin, a web-based system-administration tool, will want to update now, as it turns out...
Open source POWER ISA takes aim at Intel and Arm (TechRepublic) [LWN.net]
TechRepublic reports on the opening of the POWER instruction-set architecture. "While the POWER ISA was itself...
Announcing notqmail [LWN.net]
The notqmail project has announced its existence and shipped an initial release. It's a new fork...
Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (ghostscript, pango, and squirrelmail), openSUSE (libcryptopp, squid, tcpdump, and...
Subscription required [LWN.net]
On day one of the Linux Security Summit North America (LSS-NA), Stéphane Graber and Christian Brauner...
Subscription required [LWN.net]
The "Extendable Read-Only File System" (or "EROFS") was first posted by Gao Xiang in May 2018;...
Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (flask), openSUSE (clementine, dkgpg, libTMCG, openexr, and zstd), Oracle...
Kernel prepatch 5.3-rc5 [LWN.net]
Linus has released the 5.3-rc5 kernel prepatch, saying: "It's been calm, and nothing here stands out,...
A new chair for the openSUSE board [LWN.net]
Richard Brown has announced that he is stepping down as the chair of the openSUSE board....
Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (kernel and openssl), Debian (ffmpeg, golang-1.11, imagemagick, kde4libs, openldap,...
Stapelberg: distri: a Linux distribution to research fast package management [LWN.net]
Michael Stapelberg has announced the first release of "distri", a distribution focused on simplifying and accelerating...
Git v2.23.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 2.23.0 of the Git source-code management system is out. There's a lot of new features,...