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Vanilla OS, an immutable desktop Linux distribution designed for developers and advanced users, has recently published its 2.0 "Orchid" release. Previously based on Ubuntu, Vanilla OS has now shifted to Debian unstable ("sid"). The release has made ...

Four researchers have published a formal proof that Linux's new deterministic random bit generator (DRBG) is secure in a particular sense -- specifically, that the number of queries that would need to be made to it to uncover its internal state ...

The generation of binary code for the kernel's BPF virtual machine has been limited to the Clang compiler since the beginning; even developers who use GCC to build kernels must use Clang to compile to BPF. Work has been underway for some years on ...

The Linux Foundation has announced the creation of the OpenSearch Software Foundation as a vendorneutral home for the OpenSearch search and observability software: Established in 2021 and previously hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenSearch has ...

The Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) has voted to immediately remove the WolfSSL package from all of Fedora's repositories due to its maintainer failing to gain approval to package a new cryptography library for Fedora. Its brief travels ...

Version 8.0.0 of the Valkey open-source in-memory data store is now available. This is the first major release of Valkey since the project forked from Redis in March of this year: While this is a major version, Valkey takes command set compatibility ...

The 6.11 kernel was released on September 15 after a typical nine-week development cycle. This release integrates 13,890 non-merge changesets, so it was a moderately busy cycle, slightly more so that 6.10 was. With a new release comes a new round of ...

Linus has released the 6.11 kernel. "I'm once again on the road and not in my normal timezone, but it's Sunday afternoon here in Vienna, and 6.11 is out." Significant changes in this release include new io_uring operations for bind() and listen(),

The GNOME Foundation has announced that it is looking for a new Executive Director following the departure of Holly Million in July: As the cornerstone of our leadership team, the Executive Director will play a critical role in shaping the strategic ...

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest 688,800 to improve the security, stability, and functionality of Samba. The investment will take place over three years and will be managed by SerNet, a company that employs several Samba core ...