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....
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)
This week in KDE: looking forward towards Plasma 6.1 (pointieststick.com)
CVE-2024-3094: Urgent alert for Fedora Linux 40 and Rawhide users (fedoramagazine.org)
[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...
#141 Sleek Documentation This Week in GNOME (thisweek.gnome.org)
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....
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....
openSUSE Tumbleweed Monthly Update - March (news.opensuse.org)
backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise (www.openwall.com)
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?...
somehow grub doesn't recognize fedora 39 xfce anymore, is reinstalling the best way to proceed?
I may have inadvertently deleted a boot partition
How to move docker / podman container to another directory / drive?
I’ve got two internal SSDs, of which one is smaller (128) and one is bigger (1TB). How can I tell podman (or docker) to use another folder? Currently, it sits on the smaller drive which has less and less storage.
Samba 4.20 Released: Enhancements for Seamless Integration (debugpointnews.com)
Dynamic wallpaper changer lost
Hey guys,...
Flathub now marks unverified apps (lemmy.ml)
Your experience with auto-cpufreq?
I watched a video by Chris Titus in which he encouraged everyone to install auto-cpufreq immediately since it does wonders for battery life on laptops....
Fedora Workstation 40 – what are we working on (blogs.gnome.org)
Pop!_OS wrong clock after wake up from sleep
I put my laptop into sleep by just closing the lid and sometimes after wake up the clock shows wrong time and date which results into web sites not loading until I change it back and then I also lose logins to my previously logged in websites and have to re-enter the logins....