Now Fedora Linux mainly uses GCC as the default system compiler, unless there is a special situation that upstream projects only support LLVM/Clang. However, developers who package software on Fedora can decide for themselves...
Recently, Canonical officially released Ubuntu 21.04, which includes native Microsoft Active Directory integration, SDK for Flutter application development, and the default enabling Wayland to replace the 36-year-old X Window System. Although Ubuntu 21.04 is...
The maintainer of the Linux kernel project Greg Kroah-Hartman decided to prohibit the University of Minnesota (UMN) from contributing to the open-source Linux project. The reason is that researchers at the University of Minnesota...
According to the ITWire report, in an interview with Linus Torvalds, regarding the Linux kernel’s support for Rust, Linus responded that the Linux kernel does not yet support Rust and added that “getting to...
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...
Microsoft pushes Microsoft Edge Dev 91.0.831.1 to Linux users. In this version, Microsoft finally brings data synchronization to Linux users. After installing the development version, Linux users need to enable the experimental option and...
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...
