The long-developed WWAN (Wireless wide area network) subsystem framework has been merged into the “net-next” branch of the Linux network subsystem and will be launched in Linux 5.13. This patch introduces initial support for...
Google engineers expressed support for the introduction of Rust into the Linux kernel and listed some examples of Rust applied to driver development. In addition to the Linux kernel development mailing list, Google engineers...
The upcoming Ubuntu 21.04 will set the Home directory as private by default. The head of Ubuntu security technology Alex Murray explained the reason for this change. Traditional directory permissions (such as files) can...
Linux’s memfd_secret system call has entered the Linux-Next branch, and it may be merged into the Linux 5.13 mainline next. This feature has been developed for more than a year. The memfd_secret() system call...
The FreeBSD project announced through the developer mailing list that starting with FreeBSD 13, FreeBSD’s support level for the arm64 architecture (also known as AArch64) will be upgraded to Tier 1. This means that...
The commit information of Linux Kernel shows that the initial support for the Apple M1 chip has been merged into the Linux SoC code tree. It is expected that Linux Kernel 5.13 will bring...
A Developer, Hans de Goede wrote a Linux utility that can configure the encrypted link status for those aging Logitech keyboards; at the same time, it also allows the previously configured Logitech keyboards that...
The OpenBSD developer mailing list shows that its developers have submitted commits that support Coordinated Mars Time (MTC). The log information of this commit pointed out that the reason for introducing MTC is to...
In Linux 5.11, the Linux kernel downgraded the code related to WiMAX network support to the “staging” area in the kernel and plans to completely remove it in the future. Today, it is officially...
According to the mailing list, Linux may remove the legacy IDE driver support. If the proposal goes according to plan, starting from Linux 5.13, there will be no IDE driver support for related code....
The Debian development team announced that Debian 11’Bullseye’ has entered the “Hard Freeze” phase on March 12. At this stage, key packages and packages without autopkgtest will be treated as in the Full Freeze...
The design of the new Ubuntu installer has been made public by the Canonical design team. We reported in February that Ubuntu was developing a new installer. And now, Canonical has disclosed the relevant...
Last summer, ARM Company disclosed the Straight Line Speculation (SLS) vulnerability, and they soon introduced safeguards against SLS in the GCC and LLVM compilers. Compiler-based SLS mitigation measures include adding speculative barrier sequences around...
Intel’s 11th-generation Rocket Lake desktop processor will be officially launched in the middle of this month, the Intel Linux-driven development team, known for its punctual support, has begun to prepare early code around its...
Flutter will become Canonical’s default choice for future mobile and desktop application development. It is necessary to briefly introduce Flutter to users who don’t know much about it. Flutter is an open-source UI SDK...
Last week, Linux Kernel 5.12-rc1 released after several twists and turns, but just the day after the release, Linus immediately sent a warning email to the kernel mailing list, telling everyone not to use...
