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• Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise

  See https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=liblzma5. - Source: Hacker News / 25 days ago

• LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6

  > For example, in the case of Ubuntu or Unity (the engine) you can tell what you're looking at, at a glance. For Ubuntu people often use the codename (including in quite a few UIs, like [1]), something it presumably inherited from Debian, which does the same. I really dislike it, because I usually know which version number I want, but I rarely know which codename I want and always have to look it up on Wikipedia... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Zenbleed

  If you already have the package amd64-microcode installed, then yes it will be updated automatically. https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=amd64-microcode. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• AVR-GCC Compiler Makes Questionable Code

  Gcc-avr is a different package from the regular gcc: https://packages.debian.org/sid/gcc-avr https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=kinetic&searchon=names&keywords=gcc-avr I don't know why it's an older version, you'll have to ask the Debian people. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Urgent Upcoming OpenSSL release patches critical vulnerability

  > Sure, but there might also be binaries outside the distro which link things statically, because makes distribution easier. Then you'd use ldd to print the shared objects (shared libraries) required by each program or shared object: find … | xargs ldd. > This is one of the "benefits" of go, where afaik many things are linked statically. The static linking makes the situation worse:... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ladybird: A truly new Web Browser comes to Linux

  Ooh, ooh. I'm on Ubuntu, and it looks like I need to upgrade to 22.04 before I can experience the build process for myself. https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=jammy§ion=all&arch=any&keywords=qt6-base&searchon=names The repo itself is shockingly tiny: https://github.com/awesomekling/ladybird. Looks like it needs https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity as well.... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Darktable 4.0.0 Released

  Wouldn't another option be to use the system package [0] or is the version too old? Or use the Flatpak [1] (or NIH-flatpak [2]), which is probably a better fit than AppImage for GUI programs that sit on top of a heavy toolkit. [0] https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=digikam [1] https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.kde.digikam [2] https://snapcraft.io/digikam. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• XMODEM in 2022

  > zssh TIL: * https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=zssh. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

  > I'm not hip to how much new stuff is backport-able, so this may preclude Ubuntu 20.04, for instance. You lose the "LTS" part if you compile your own kernel, if you manage to make it functional at all. I'm not sure that concern is justified. It seems io_uring was pushed as part of the 5.1 linux kernel release, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS seems to have been shipped with 5.4.... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• S.623 (Sunshine Protection Act) passes Senate by unanimous consent

  IANA periodically publishes the latest canonical timezone database: https://www.iana.org/time-zones The IETF has a brief guide on how to programmatically download this data using shell scripts/commands: https://www.ietf.org/timezones/tzdb-2018f/tz-link.html Most Linux distros will automatically package IANA's timezone database in the official repos, eg. In Ubuntu it's the "tzdata" package... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Outdated, vulnerable open source component(s) shipped with Windows 10&11

  > "Explain how the development of new text editors seems to be talking up a significant chunk of available volunteer manpower? Even Emacs and vim couldn't possibly take up such a large chunk of the available manpower, since they are hard to even use and let alone hack on." Kate? Kwrite? Kakoune? NeoVim? Featherpad? Gobby? Yudit? aoeui? Searching Ubuntu package descriptions for 'text editor' finds 98 of... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up

  This. I think the main advantage with macOS is that it's above all else a system designed to be used interactively, as opposed to a server, so they don't have to put out a configuration "good enough for most things". I also run Linux with a tiling window manager on an old machine (3rd gen i7), and it flies. One thing that made a huge difference in perceived latency for me was switching the generic kernel with one... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Innernet: Open source Rust based Tailscale alternative by Tonari

  Thanks for the heads-up. Before adding the alias, I did a quick search (https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=xenial&arch=any&mode=exactfilename&searchon=contents&keywords=inn) and did see the "inn" package, but it didn't seem like it included any "inn" binary that would cause name conflicts. Happy to change the way that alias works if it ends up being a problem. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago