Daniel Stenberg reflects on the 30th anniversary of the curl project. libcurl runs in an estimated thirty billion installations today. It is a rough estimate since the majority of all libcurl users ...

Kerem Söke has announced the 1.0 release of Polo, a Wayland compositor for the MATE Desktop Environment: The idea is to keep MATE behaving as closely as possible to how it does on X11, rather than ...

Guido van Rossum conveys the sad (and somewhat delayed) news of the passing of Tim Peters. It's hard to overestimate Tim's influence on Python. He's probably best known for writing the Zen of Python ...

Patrick Garrity of VulnCheck has written a blog post that looks at vulnerabilities found by Anthropic's Project Glasswing since it launched on April 7, and finds it wanting: ...

Quickshell arose from a need for easier methods to build interfaces for desktop components, such as a system tray or management interface for audio devices. Other toolkits can achieve similar results ...

Version 10.6p2 of OpenSSH has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability that affects Linux systems that use musl libc with PAM disabled, such as Alpine Linux. OpenSSH developer ...

Well, looks like a security issue. But, this really will not DoS the host. Even if it actually does, then it seems something is not very clear here. Each vif on Xen loads it's own driver instance and ...

Version 6.0.0 of the Podman container-management tool has been released. Notable new features include the ability to set multiple static IP addresses for containers, improvements in network isolation ...

Version 2026.10 of the OpenIndiana operating system has been released. OpenIndiana is based on Illumos, which in turn was based on OpenSolaris after Oracle discontinued it.

Linus Torvalds has released the 7.4-rc2 prepatch and it will come as no surprise that it is a large one ("a big -rc2 to go with the largest ever -rc1"). Much of the size was made up of some automated ...

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