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For people who would like to experiment with the multi-kernel Linux concept, Cong Wang has announced the release of mklinux v7.0-mk2. mklinux lets one machine run several independent Linux kernels at…
For people who would like to experiment with the multi-kernel Linux concept, Cong Wang has announced the release of mklinux v7.0-mk2. mklinux lets one machine run several independent Linux kernels at the same time on bare metal, without a hypervisor. A host kernel owns a pool of CPUs, memory and PCI devices, carves that pool into instances, and boots a spawn kernel into each instance through kexec_file_load(). Every spawn kernel runs natively on its own CPUs, its own physical memory and its own devices. Nothing is emulated and nothing is trapped; the only thing shared is what you choose to share. Note that this is not the old MkLinux, which was a port to PowerPC Macintosh systems.
Remind is a command-line calendar and alarm program, with an optional Tk-based graphical interface, for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. It has its own scripting language that allows users to c…
Remind is a command-line calendar and alarm program, with an optional Tk-based graphical interface, for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. It has its own scripting language that allows users to create reminders that are difficult (if not impossible) to specify in other calendaring programs. It is wholly unsuitable for use in corporate environments that require calendar sharing and exchanging meeting invitations; however, it may be precisely the calendaring tool for users who prefer the command line and fast, flexible tools that can help keep track of messy schedules.
Vanilla OS 3, an immutable desktop Linux distribution, has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for Arm64, introduction of a Vanilla OS SDK, a rewrite of the Apx package man…
Vanilla OS 3, an immutable desktop Linux distribution, has been released. Notable changes in this release include support for Arm64, introduction of a Vanilla OS SDK, a rewrite of the Apx package manager using the new SDK, and much more. LWN covered Vanilla OS 2 in 2024.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups-filters, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, kernel, mrtg, NetworkManager, nginx, nginx:1.24, nodejs24, perl-Date-Manip, python-pyas…
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cups-filters, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, kernel, mrtg, NetworkManager, nginx, nginx:1.24, nodejs24, perl-Date-Manip, python-pyasn1, python-urwid, python3.12, python3.14, and qemu-kvm), Debian (erlang, thunderbird, webkit2gtk, and zfs-linux), Fedora (calibre, chromium, freeipa, java-21-openjdk, java-21-openjdk-portable, java-25-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk, jfrog-cli, kernel, libxls, nextcloud, perl-URI, and samba), Gentoo (Incus), Mageia (kernel and kernel-linus), Oracle (ansible-core, cups-filters, curl, firefox, kernel, libcupsfilters, libreoffice, mrtg, NetworkManager, perl-Date-Manip, php:8.2, php:8.3, python-urwid, python3.14, qemu-kvm, and sqlite), Red Hat (assertj-core, httpd, and osbuild-composer), SUSE (buildah, comfyui, dracut, erlang, erlang27, grafana, kernel, libssh2_org, openvswitch, perl-Dancer2-Plugin-Auth-Extensible, postgresql17, python-cryptography, python-sqlparse, python311, python313-hpack, rpm, suseconnect-ng, thunderbird, and vim), and Ubuntu (async-http-client, curl, and ffmpeg).