Merged earlier this year for Linux 7.1 was extended attributes on sockets support as a feature sought after by the likes of GNOME and systemd for helping with Varlink IPC usage and other purposes. A limitation though of the functionality has been no efficient means for a BPF program to read those user extended attribute…
Patrick Keshishian discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certaintext chunks. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial ofservice. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-10087) It was discovered that libpng incorrectly handled certain malformedimages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial ofservice. This issue only affected Ubuntu…
Just days after opening the Debian-based TUXEDO OS to public testing, TUXEDO Computers shared more details about a key part of its new distribution: how it will maintain the Linux kernel going forward. As we recently reported, the next generation of TUXEDO OS is moving away from Ubuntu and adopting Debian Testing as its permanent…
Fedora 45 has several system-level changes that need testing on real hardware. The first test day up is GNOME 51, starting on 17 August, with more events planned for RPM 6.1, installation media and others. You can participate with a VM for most tests; some hardware-specific testing is more useful on a real machine. Details…
DistroWatch.com: SkillFishOS Last Update: 2026-08-16 21:49 UTC skillfishos-26.06.3-kde (more screenshots in our gallery) SkillFishOS is a gaming-focused Linux distribution based on Debian’s “Unstable” branch and featuring a themed KDE Plasma desktop. Originally developed for the AMD BC250 compact motherboard built around AMD’s Cyan Skillfish accelerated processing unit (APU), it is also available for generic 64-bit…
Linux kernel 7.2 has been released, adding cache-aware scheduling, ext4 filesystem performance boosts and a slew of new and improved hardware drivers for laptops and peripherals. A merge widow record was also set during the 9-week development cycle, with more than 2,100 individual contributors involved. AI, obviously, has helped. Commit-crunching by LWN found roughly 5%…
Proton has launched AI Paper Trail, a free tool that shows people what their AI chatbot conversations reveal about them. It runs on Lumo (partner link), the company’s privacy-focused AI assistant, and works by digging through exported ChatGPT or Claude conversation history. Once you upload your content, the tool starts building a personal report around…
35 Arjun’s Systems Brief: Last week, Phoronix benchmarked Fedora 44 against five other distributions on a Framework Laptop 13 Pro and Fedora finished at the back of the pack. Before you panic and switch distributions, I want to tell you something from years of performance work: the “slow Fedora” headlines are overblown. Fedora ships with…
D7VK continues to mature its Direct3D 7, 6, 5 and 3 to Vulkan translation, to bring improvements for retro Windows games with Wine / Proton on Linux. The latest released version 2.1 had a nice focus on optimizing loading times for various games, with the developer noting “Some titles can see a big impact, with…
You attach a new disk to a server, run lsblk , and the drive is there. Then you try to copy a file onto it and nothing works, because there is no path to copy to. The disk is visible to the kernel, but it has no partition, no filesystem, and no place in the…
