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Early Friday the principal author of GNU Privacy Guard (the free encryption software) warned that version 1.9.0 of its cryptographic library Libgcrypt, released January 19, had a “severe” security vulnerability and should not be used.
A new version 1… Continue reading A ‘Severe’ Bug Was Found In Libgcrypt, GnuPG’s Cryptographic Library
Long-time Slashdot reader lee1 shares his recent article from LWN: On November 26, version 6.1 of GNU Octave, a language and environment for numerical computing, was released. There are several new features and enhancements in the new version, includin… Continue reading A New Release For GNU Octave
All the videos have now appeared online for the talks at this year’s virtual EmacsConf 2020, “the conference about the joy of Emacs, Emacs Lisp, and memorizing key sequences.” And among them are an appearance by 67-year-old Richard Stallman, reminding … Continue reading Richard Stallman Answers Questions at EmacsConf 2020
“Today, on October 4th, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) celebrates its thirty-fifth year of fighting for software freedom,” announces a blog post at FSF.org:
Our work will not be finished until every computer user is able to do all of their digital … Continue reading The Free Software Foundation Wants You To Celebrate Its 35th Anniversary
There are many ways to update an embedded system in the field. Images can fly through the air one a time, travel by sneaker or hitch a ride on other passing data. OK, maybe that’s a stretch, but there are certainly a plethora of ways to get those sweet update …read more
LWN.net re-visits the emacs-devel mailing list, where the Emacs 28 development cycle has revived discussions about how to make the text editor more “modern” and attractive to new users:
A default dark theme may not be in the future, leading one to thi… Continue reading Emacs Developers (Including Richard Stallman) Discuss How to Build a More ‘Modern’ Emacs
Performing over-the-air updates of devices in the field can be a tricky business. Reliability and recovery is of course key, but even getting the right bits to the right storage sectors can be a challenge. Recently I’ve been working on a project which called for the design of a new …read more
Linus Torvalds himself “changed around the kernel’s pipe code to use exclusive waits when reading or writing,” reports Phoronix.
“While this doesn’t mean much for traditional/common piping of data, the GNU Make job-server is a big benefactor as it re… Continue reading GNU Make 4.3 Speeds Up Linux Kernel Builds, Debugger/Profiler Fork Released
An anonymous reader writes:
The Free Software Foundation is holding its annual fundraiser, with a goal of attracting 600 new members by the end of December. (New members so far: 112.) “We are still fighting the oppressive nature of proprietary software… Continue reading Free Software Foundation Offers Benefits and Merchandise In Its Annual Fundraiser
Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was originally developed in 1969 as a lighter weight timesharing system for a DEC minicomputer at Bell Labs has exerted a huge influence over every place that we encounter computing, from our …read more