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Mozilla Now Providing RPM Packages For Firefox Nightly Builds
2+ hour, 35+ min ago (147+ words) In late 2023 Mozilla began providing Debian packages of Firefox Nightly builds complete with an APT repository. Those on Debian/Ubuntu distributions have a much easier path for enjoying Firefox Nightly since then and now Mozilla engineers are providing similar RPM…...
CVE-2026-0915: GNU C Library Fixes A Security Issue Present Since 1996
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (142+ words) CVE-2026-0915 was published on Friday as a security issue with the GNU C Library "glibc" for code introduced 30 years ago. The latest Glibc Git code is now patched for this issue introduced in 1996... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux…...
JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome / Chromium Code
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (168+ words) To the frustration of many developers and end-users, back in 2022 Google deprecated JPEG-XL support in Chrome/Chromium and proceeded to remove the support. That decision was widely slammed and ultimately Google said they may end up reconsidering it. In November…...
Bcachefs Ships Latest User-Space Utilities With bcachefs-tools 1.35
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (150+ words) Kent Overstreet has shipped the latest version of bcachefs-tools, the user-space code complementing the Bcachefs file-system kernel driver. There are a number of improvements present in this latest version with Overstreet remaining committed to advancing Bcachefs even with its current…...
wl-proxy Announced As Rust Crate For Proxying Wayland Connections
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (125+ words) Announced today on the Wayland mailing list is wl-proxy as a Rust crate for proxying Wayland connections and intercepting/manipulating Wayland messages... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals wl-proxy Announced…...
Firefox 147 Now Available With XDG Base Directory Specification Support
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (112+ words) Firefox 147 Now Available With XDG Base Directory Specification Support'Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Firefox 147 Now Available With XDG Base Directory Specification Support Michael Larabel is the principal author…...
Linux Lands Safeguard For RISC-V Against Another Microarchitectural Attack Vector
1+ week, 1+ day ago (156+ words) Increasingly complex RISC-V cores aren't magically immune to the speculative execution / side-channel vulnerabilities that have rattled the x86_64 and ARM64 landscape for years. Following recent work on Spectre V1 handling for RISC-V in the Linux kernel, merged this weekend for Linux 6.19-rc5 is another…...
Wine 11.0-rc5 Brings 32 Bug Fixes
1+ week, 2+ day ago (131+ words) With no Wine 11.0 release candidate last Friday due to the New Year festivities, Wine 11.0-rc5 is out today and it comes packing 32 bug fixes for the past two weeks... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software…...
There Is No One Left On Debian's Data Protection Team
2+ week, 7+ hour ago (148+ words) Besides Debian's aging bug tracker interface, another challenge as the Debian Linux distribution project begins 2026 is that all volunteers have left their Data Protection Team. The Debian Data Protection Team deals with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) issues and related…...
Six Years Since The Reiser5 File-System Was Announced
2+ week, 3+ day ago (157+ words) With the start of the New Year it now marks six years since the unexpected announcement of the Reiser5 file-system being developed as the continuation of the never-upstreamed Reiser4 file-system. But Reiser5 development never saw too much upstream interest and it's now been…...