Posts for year 2024

This Year in Linux, the Top Linux News of 2024

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This year in Linux was a huge year. So many things happened. So many updates, releases, changes, improvements. Linux Marketshare, in fact, got much better too. So many things. So we're going to be covering everything in the super detail that we normally would on this week in Linux because there's just so many things to talk about. If you would like to learn more about each individual thing, you can check out the episode show notes. There will be links to every single time every single episode in the show notes so go check those out.

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00:00 Intro
00:40 CVEs & CNAs for Linux Kernel
01:31 Rust added to the Linux Kernel in Linux 6.8
01:42 Linux 6.12 Merging Extensible Scheduler “sched_ext”
02:46 4.55% Marketshare for Linux on StatCounter!
03:57 Security Topics
04:18 Locally Exploitable glibc Vulnerability
05:44 Needrestart Security Vulnerabilities Found
06:29 RegreSSHion: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability In OpenSSH Server
07:44 XZ backdoor found in widespread Linux utility
10:34 CrowdStrike causes Global Outage for Microsoft Windows
13:23 Desktop Environments
15:26 Distro Releases
18:08 Red Hat Summit 2024
18:32 Destination Linux 400
18:53 Destination Linux Interviews
20:23 Explicit Sync Will Finally Solve the NVIDIA/Wayland Issues
21:34 Hardware News
21:52 Gaming News: Anti Cheat Woes
23:34 Gaming News: Valve does good for Linux
25:26 umu launcher
25:49 Application News
27:55 Support the show

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ruamel.yaml is a YAML parser/emitter that supports roundtrip preservation of comments, seq/map flow style, and map key order

291: Xfce 4.20, Steam Winter Sale, openSUSE, Fedora Asahi, Serpent OS, MakuluLinux & more Linux news

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This week in Linux, we have a ton to talk about. So much happened. I took last week off because of the holidays, and there's just a lot happened in that period of time. So let's talk about it. First, we have Xfce because Xfce 4.20 has been released. openSUSE has announced a new package management tool. There is now an alpha release for the Serpent OS distribution. There's also a Steam Winter Sale that's going on right now. And we've got news from DreamWorks. Yes, that DreamWorks. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what's going on in the Linux and open source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews.

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00:00 Intro
00:50 Xfce 4.20 Released
07:35 openSUSE Announces New "YQPkg" Package Management Tool
11:23 Serpent OS Alpha Release
13:30 Sandfly Security, agentless security platform [ad]
14:54 Fedora Asahi Remix 41 Released
18:00 Darktable 5.0 Released
21:28 Steam Winter Sale & more from Valve
22:14 Valve joining Lenovo at CES 2025
23:02 Steam Replay 2024
23:40 New Steam Record of 39 Million Concurrent Users
24:26 OpenMoonRay 1.7 Released
25:46 MakuluLinux LinDoz 2025 Released
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2.7.4 released

Jonas Kalderstam (2): [49f3008c] fixed tablet being hardcoded to card article style [cc8c9f7c] switched to JobScheduler to fix crash on older versions of Android (#465)

2.7.3 released

Jonas Kalderstam (3): [235228e4] removed foreground permission since it wasn’t used [32cb38f4] fixed missing spaces inside some tags [1e7f9f68] fixed crash when a table was empty

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Python 3.14.0 alpha 3 is out

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O Alpha 3, O Alpha 3, how lovely are your branches!

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140a3/

This is an early developer preview of Python 3.14

Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13

Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0a3, is the third of seven planned alpha releases.

Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the release process.

During the alpha phase, features may be added up until the start of the beta phase (2025-05-06) and, if necessary, may be modified or deleted up until the release candidate phase (2025-07-22). Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and its use is not recommended for production environments.

Many new features for Python 3.14 are still being planned and written. Among the new major new features and changes so far:

The next pre-release of Python 3.14 will be 3.14.0a4, currently scheduled for 2025-01-14.

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And now for something completely different

A mince pie is a small, round covered tart filled with “mincemeat”, usually eaten during the Christmas season – the UK consumes some 800 million each Christmas. Mincemeat is a mixture of things like apple, dried fruits, candied peel and spices, and originally would have contained meat chopped small, but rarely nowadays. They are often served warm with brandy butter.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest mention of Christmas mince pies is by Thomas Dekker, writing in the aftermath of the 1603 London plague, in Newes from Graues-end: Sent to Nobody (1604):

Ten thousand in London swore to feast their neighbors with nothing but plum-porredge, and mince-pyes all Christmas.

Here’s a meaty recipe from Rare and Excellent Receipts, Experienc’d and Taught by Mrs Mary Tillinghast and now Printed for the Use of her Scholars Only (1678):

  1. How to make Mince-pies.

To every pound of Meat, take two pound of beef Suet, a pound of Corrants, and a quarter of an Ounce of Cinnamon, one Nutmeg, a little beaten Mace, some beaten Colves, a little Sack & Rose-water, two large Pippins, some Orange and Lemon peel cut very thin, and shred very small, a few beaten Carraway-seeds, if you love them the Juyce of half a Lemon squez’d into this quantity of meat; for Sugar, sweeten it to your relish; then mix all these together and fill your Pie. The best meat for Pies is Neats-Tongues, or a leg of Veal; you may make them of a leg of Mutton if you please; the meat must be parboyl’d if you do not spend it presently; but if it be for present use, you may do it raw, and the Pies will be the better.

Enjoy the new release

Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organisation contributions to the Python Software Foundation.

Regards from a snowy and slippery Helsinki,

Your release team,
Hugo van Kemenade
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2.7.2 released

Agnieszka C (1): [fc652d0a] Updated Polish translation using Weblate Deleted User (1): [a58105dc] Updated Finnish translation using Weblate Jonas Kalderstam (2): [cd8f70b4] added setting for opening feeds drawer when pressing FAB [d69df4ca] added feed item styles for tablets (no longer hidden on tablet) Matth78 (1): [9bded05e] Updated French translation using Weblate Ricky Tigg (1): [8749fc38] Updated Finnish translation using Weblate VfBFan (1): [ba2a09f7] Updated German translation using Weblate Wiccio (1):