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Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

2/ And to quote one bit from @corbet's[1] great #OSSNA25 talk:

""[…] there will be no core development conferences around #Linux and other things in the United States in the foreseeable future. […] this is a real problem […]""

Yes, this is not a formal announcement[2] – but it bears some weight, as Jonathan is well connected and among others sits in the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board (TAB).

[1] youtube.com/watch?v=hNLBGiwfBS (for context starts a bit earlier; the quoted bit comes about a minute later)

[2] and kinda obvious for some of you

YouTubeThree Decades in Kernelland - Jonathan Corbet, LWN.netBy The Linux Foundation
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Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

ICYMI: the recording of @corbet's recent #OSSNA25 talk "Three Decades in Kernelland" recently became available:

youtube.com/watch?v=hNLBGiwfBS

From the abstract[1]: The #Linux #kernel project has been going for well over 30 years. From its beginnings on floppy diskettes and beige boxes through to its current home in pockets and unseen data centers, the kernel project has been a constant exercise in rapid development and adaptation. I have been present for almost all of the kernel project's history as an observer, contributor, maintainer, and more; all that experience will be boiled down into a fast-moving tour of how the #LinuxKernel got to where it is, what makes it successful, and what may be coming next.

[1] ossna2025.sched.com/event/1zfi

YouTubeThree Decades in Kernelland - Jonathan Corbet, LWN.netBy The Linux Foundation
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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

(more Linux news in original post)

Initramfs vulnerability lets attackers with physical access compromise encrypted systems by entering incorrect password several times and accessing the debug shell on Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 systems:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/ubuntu

Linux kernel 6.15.6 and 6.12.37 LTS deliver TSA (Transient Scheduler Attacks) mitigations:
phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15.6

Wayback is now hosted on FreeDesktop.org:
phoronix.com/news/Wayback-Free

System76 Adder WS laptop available with Intel Core Ultra i9 and NVIDIA 50 series:
9to5linux.com/system76s-adder-

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OMG! Ubuntu · New Linux Security Flaw Uses Initramfs to Inject MalwareA newly found security flaw in Ubuntu could allow attackers with physical access to bypass full disk encryption. Learn how the attack works.
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Ich bin erschrocken, als ich erfahren habe, dass der #Linuxkernel nicht insgesamt durchgetestet wird, wenn z.B. ein neuer Treiber eingepflegt wird (commit). Das führt anscheinend immer wieder dazu, dass grundlegende Funktionen wie die reine Audionavigation für #seheingeschränkte Menschen sucken. Das sind #Grundlagen, natürlich sehr aufwändige. Eine Freigabe durch sinneseingeschränkte Menschen, von solchen trainierte Betatestpersonen, oder der erfolgreiche Abschluss eines entsprechenden automatisierten Teststapels sollte beim Einchecken zu bestätigen sein. Vielleicht geht hier auch was in Zusammenarbeit mit professionellen Linuxentwickelnden, bei Redhat oder an Unis.

Ich möchte auch nicht, dass #Linux kommerzialisiert wird, aber das wäre für mich ein Mindestmaß an Professionalisierung, um Linux verlässlicher zu bekommen.

Linux Is Perfect Unless You're Blind:
inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=KvxdkmP

Thorsten Leemhuis (acct. 1/4)

Remember #Linux' pktcdvd driver, which allowed direct mounts with UDF of cd-rw drives that required 32kb packets?

That driver is now in now scheduled to be removed with #kernel 6.17, as a patch doing this landed in linux-next today – because that use-case is uncommon these days, as "the world has moved on from those kinds of media. To make matters worse, it's actively breaking setups where it's not even required or useful."

git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/k

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Aptivi

Linux 6.16 RC5 released!

Linux 6.16 RC5 is now live for developers and curious users to try out. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate.

In the release announcement for this version of the kernel, Linus Torvalds said:

Absolutely nothing in here looks all that odd. The bulk of the changes are to drivers, with all the usual suspects (ie gpu and networking tends to be the most noticeable, but we've got usb, rtc, platform drivers etc too).

And there's various filesystem fixes in here too, with several filesystems having sent updates last week. Not that any of them are particularly large, but there's just several filesystems that all decided to send in their fixes last week: xfs, btrfs, smb and nfs clients, bcachefs and netfs).

Other than that it's the usual random sprinkling of fixes.

Why not try out this awesome pre-release of Linux 6.16?

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