Lasse Collin, the other xz maintainer, has acknowledged the backdoor (tukaani.org)
They haven’t particularly made a comment on the situation so much as acknowledged it’s happening. They seem to be going with the story that they had nothing to do with it and this is news to them. Hope to hear more from them soon so we can find out more about the situation, how and why this happened, etc....
gotta get a new printer
Greentings As youve seen from the the title, i want to get a new printer as a present for my parents. Sadly they are still windows peasants and my mom somehow thinks that the HP printer on her desk has been a good financial investment, even though it has costed us more than 300 bucks in ink over the past 2 years....
Change the panning keybind in Zathura
The manual mentions that by default you can pan by holding middle click but my tablet does not have one, so I would like to change it to left click. Anyone knows how to do it? Thanks.
Help! Random 1-2 second freezes
EDIT: The solution was that it was freesync. Turned it off on my monitor, and that fixed it....
GNOME 46, Linux 6.8, KDE Security Warning, Fedora 40 Beta & more Linux news (www.youtube.com)
Who of you guys are on an "Unknown" OS? (gs.statcounter.com)
I’ve been wondering how many Linux users are being listed as unknown by statcounter out of curiosity. There has been a big global bump “Unknown”....
Those who custom configure their kernel: what did you gain?
Curious to know the coolest things you achieved by configuring your kernel. I know kernel config can be boring, but I’m hoping someone will have an impressive answer....
GNU Coreutils 9.5 Can Yield 10~20% Throughput Boost For cp, mv & cat Commands (www.phoronix.com)
CVE-2024-3094: Urgent alert for Fedora Linux 40 and Rawhide users (fedoramagazine.org)
This week in KDE: looking forward towards Plasma 6.1 (pointieststick.com)
WARNING: Malicious code in current pre-release & testing versions/variants: F40 and rawhide affected - users of F40/rawhide need to respond (discussion.fedoraproject.org)
DistroWatch has been banned in Turkey (lemmy.world)
It is possible that it is related to how Turkey has been flagging Linux software as malware.
openSUSE addresses supply chain attack against xz compression library (news.opensuse.org)
openSUSE maintainers received notification of a supply chain attack against the “xz” compression tool and “liblzma5” library....
backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise (www.openwall.com)
[Solved] Cannot look around while moving* in Minecraft (kbin.melroy.org)
Not sure if this is a problem with my hardware, but my Linux (Gateway) laptop can only look around while moving in one specific circumstance: when I keep holding the touchpad and sprint. I use arch btw...
Which DE for my parent's laptop (old Lenovo IdeaPad)? Wayland or X11?
I chose Debian 12 as a solid and stable base. Which of these shipped DEs is the best for this particular laptop series and Windows 10 like user experience?...
Input Drops Through KVM Switch
For a long time now, I’ve had audio drops and sometimes even keyboard input drops through my KVM switches....
#141 Sleek Documentation This Week in GNOME (thisweek.gnome.org)
Flathub now marks unverified apps (lemmy.ml)
openSUSE Tumbleweed Monthly Update - March (news.opensuse.org)
somehow grub doesn't recognize fedora 39 xfce anymore, is reinstalling the best way to proceed?
I may have inadvertently deleted a boot partition