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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 08:15:00 -0800</pubDate>
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  <title>Linux Action News 274</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 08:15:00 -0800</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Android is getting RISC-Y, the handy new Google tool going open source, the next nail in the coffin for ZFS on Ubuntu, and why you were right about smart speakers all along.</itunes:subtitle>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Android is getting RISC-Y, the handy new Google tool going open source, the next nail in the coffin for ZFS on Ubuntu, and why you were right about smart speakers all along.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr">Kolide</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr">Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. </a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://linode.com/lan">Linode</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://linode.com/lan">Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. </a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.jupiter.party/">Support Linux Action News</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Android Gets RISC-Y" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/google-announces-official-android-support-for-risc-v/">Android Gets RISC-Y</a> &mdash; Google's keynote at the RISC-V Summit promises official, polished support. </li><li><a title="Keynote: The Android Open Source Project and RISC-V - Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70O_RmTWP58">Keynote: The Android Open Source Project and RISC-V - Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering</a></li><li><a title="New Google Tool Goes Open" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/12/google-osv-scanner/">New Google Tool Goes Open</a> &mdash; The OSV database is a distributed, open-source database that stores vulnerability information in the OSV format. The OSV-Scanner assesses a project's dependencies against the OSV database showing all vulnerabilities relating to the project.</li><li><a title="Ubuntu’s New Installer Milestone" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.04-New-Installer-Jan">Ubuntu’s New Installer Milestone</a> &mdash; With Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" in April that new desktop installer is poised to finally be used by default. </li><li><a title="HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-HDR-Linux-Gaming-Begins">HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming</a> &mdash; "New Linux gaming milestone: with the latest work from Josh Ashton, HDR can now be enabled for real games! Tested it tonight on my AMD desktop with Halo Infinite, Deep Rock Galactic, DEATH STRANDING DC. Very early and will still need some time to bake to be useful to most."</li><li><a title="Red Hat Planning HDR Hackfest" rel="nofollow" href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/ShellDisplayNext2023">Red Hat Planning HDR Hackfest</a></li><li><a title="GNOME Shell + Mutter 43 Alpha Released" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-43-Alpha">GNOME Shell + Mutter 43 Alpha Released</a></li><li><a title="VKD3D-Proton 2.7 Released With Eight Months Worth Of Changes" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-Proton-2.7-Released">VKD3D-Proton 2.7 Released With Eight Months Worth Of Changes</a></li><li><a title="Google Home speakers allowed hackers to snoop on conversations" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-home-speakers-allowed-hackers-to-snoop-on-conversations/">Google Home speakers allowed hackers to snoop on conversations</a> &mdash; A bug in Google Home smart speaker allowed installing a backdoor account that could be used to control it remotely and to turn it into a snooping device by accessing the microphone feed.</li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Android is getting RISC-Y, the handy new Google tool going open source, the next nail in the coffin for ZFS on Ubuntu, and why you were right about smart speakers all along.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr">Kolide</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://l.kolide.co/3klbWzr">Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. </a></li><li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://linode.com/lan">Linode</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://linode.com/lan">Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. </a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.jupiter.party/">Support Linux Action News</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Android Gets RISC-Y" rel="nofollow" href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/google-announces-official-android-support-for-risc-v/">Android Gets RISC-Y</a> &mdash; Google's keynote at the RISC-V Summit promises official, polished support. </li><li><a title="Keynote: The Android Open Source Project and RISC-V - Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70O_RmTWP58">Keynote: The Android Open Source Project and RISC-V - Lars Bergstrom, Google Director of Engineering</a></li><li><a title="New Google Tool Goes Open" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/12/google-osv-scanner/">New Google Tool Goes Open</a> &mdash; The OSV database is a distributed, open-source database that stores vulnerability information in the OSV format. The OSV-Scanner assesses a project's dependencies against the OSV database showing all vulnerabilities relating to the project.</li><li><a title="Ubuntu’s New Installer Milestone" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-23.04-New-Installer-Jan">Ubuntu’s New Installer Milestone</a> &mdash; With Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" in April that new desktop installer is poised to finally be used by default. </li><li><a title="HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-HDR-Linux-Gaming-Begins">HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming</a> &mdash; "New Linux gaming milestone: with the latest work from Josh Ashton, HDR can now be enabled for real games! Tested it tonight on my AMD desktop with Halo Infinite, Deep Rock Galactic, DEATH STRANDING DC. Very early and will still need some time to bake to be useful to most."</li><li><a title="Red Hat Planning HDR Hackfest" rel="nofollow" href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/ShellDisplayNext2023">Red Hat Planning HDR Hackfest</a></li><li><a title="GNOME Shell + Mutter 43 Alpha Released" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-43-Alpha">GNOME Shell + Mutter 43 Alpha Released</a></li><li><a title="VKD3D-Proton 2.7 Released With Eight Months Worth Of Changes" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-Proton-2.7-Released">VKD3D-Proton 2.7 Released With Eight Months Worth Of Changes</a></li><li><a title="Google Home speakers allowed hackers to snoop on conversations" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-home-speakers-allowed-hackers-to-snoop-on-conversations/">Google Home speakers allowed hackers to snoop on conversations</a> &mdash; A bug in Google Home smart speaker allowed installing a backdoor account that could be used to control it remotely and to turn it into a snooping device by accessing the microphone feed.</li></ul>]]>
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  <title>Linux Action News 28</title>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2017 10:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Fedora goes modular, Firefox makes a quantum leap, and a Linux classic makes a come back. Plus a big moment for the Kernel, Red Hat goes ARM, and OpenPlus has a backdoor with a twist.</itunes:subtitle>
  <itunes:duration>27:14</itunes:duration>
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  <description>Fedora goes modular, Firefox makes a quantum leap, and a Linux classic makes a come back. 
Plus a big moment for the Kernel, Red Hat goes ARM, and OpenPlus has a backdoor with a twist. 
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    <![CDATA[<p>Fedora goes modular, Firefox makes a quantum leap, and a Linux classic makes a come back. </p>

<p>Plus a big moment for the Kernel, Red Hat goes ARM, and OpenPlus has a backdoor with a twist.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://linux.ting.com">Ting</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://linux.ting.com">Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!</a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.jupiter.party/">Support Linux Action News</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Fedora 27 released" rel="nofollow" href="https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-27/">Fedora 27 released</a> &mdash; The Workstation edition of Fedora 27 features GNOME 3.26. In the new release, both the Display and Network configuration panels have been updated, along with the overall Settings panel appearance improvement.</li><li><a title="Firefox 57 arrives" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/introducing-firefox-quantum/">Firefox 57 arrives</a> &mdash; It’s by far the biggest update we’ve had since we launched Firefox 1.0 in 2004</li><li><a title="There&#39;s an option for people who don&#39;t like change" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Basilisk-Web-Browser">There's an option for people who don't like change</a> &mdash; a fork of the Mozilla code-base pre-Servo/Rust... Basically for those not liking the direction of Firefox with v57 rolling out the Quantum changes, etc. </li><li><a title="Ubuntu Unity 7 flavour might be on the horizon" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/11/ubuntu-unity-remix">Ubuntu Unity 7 flavour might be on the horizon</a> &mdash; A proposal to create a new community Ubuntu flavor which uses the Unity 7 desktop by default is gathering support within the Ubuntu community.</li><li><a title="LTS kernel 4.14 released" rel="nofollow" href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/12/123">LTS kernel 4.14 released</a> &mdash; Anyway, go out and test the new 4.14 release, that is slated to be the
next LTS kernel - and start sending me pull request for the 4.15 merge
window.
</li><li><a title="RISC-V support may be coming to 4.15" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Linux-4.15-RISC-V-OpenRISC">RISC-V support may be coming to 4.15</a> &mdash; RISC-V is hoping to see mainline with Linux 4.15. We've known for a while now about their mainline ambitions for 4.15 and a pull request was sent today, but it remains to be seen yet if Linus Torvalds will pull it for this merge window. </li><li><a title="Red Hat announces ARM version of RHEL" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-introduces-arm-server-support-red-hat-enterprise-linux">Red Hat announces ARM version of RHEL</a> &mdash; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 for ARM, the first commercial release for this architecture.</li><li><a title="Oneplus backdoor" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.xda-developers.com/oneplus-root-access-backdoor/">Oneplus backdoor</a> &mdash; OnePlus accidentally left in place a diagnostic testing application made by Qualcomm. After decompiling this application, he discovered that it can be exploited to grant root access—effectively acting as a backdoor.
</li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Fedora goes modular, Firefox makes a quantum leap, and a Linux classic makes a come back. </p>

<p>Plus a big moment for the Kernel, Red Hat goes ARM, and OpenPlus has a backdoor with a twist.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" href="https://linux.ting.com">Ting</a>: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://linux.ting.com">Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!</a></li></ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.jupiter.party/">Support Linux Action News</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Fedora 27 released" rel="nofollow" href="https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-27/">Fedora 27 released</a> &mdash; The Workstation edition of Fedora 27 features GNOME 3.26. In the new release, both the Display and Network configuration panels have been updated, along with the overall Settings panel appearance improvement.</li><li><a title="Firefox 57 arrives" rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/introducing-firefox-quantum/">Firefox 57 arrives</a> &mdash; It’s by far the biggest update we’ve had since we launched Firefox 1.0 in 2004</li><li><a title="There&#39;s an option for people who don&#39;t like change" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Basilisk-Web-Browser">There's an option for people who don't like change</a> &mdash; a fork of the Mozilla code-base pre-Servo/Rust... Basically for those not liking the direction of Firefox with v57 rolling out the Quantum changes, etc. </li><li><a title="Ubuntu Unity 7 flavour might be on the horizon" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/11/ubuntu-unity-remix">Ubuntu Unity 7 flavour might be on the horizon</a> &mdash; A proposal to create a new community Ubuntu flavor which uses the Unity 7 desktop by default is gathering support within the Ubuntu community.</li><li><a title="LTS kernel 4.14 released" rel="nofollow" href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/12/123">LTS kernel 4.14 released</a> &mdash; Anyway, go out and test the new 4.14 release, that is slated to be the
next LTS kernel - and start sending me pull request for the 4.15 merge
window.
</li><li><a title="RISC-V support may be coming to 4.15" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Linux-4.15-RISC-V-OpenRISC">RISC-V support may be coming to 4.15</a> &mdash; RISC-V is hoping to see mainline with Linux 4.15. We've known for a while now about their mainline ambitions for 4.15 and a pull request was sent today, but it remains to be seen yet if Linus Torvalds will pull it for this merge window. </li><li><a title="Red Hat announces ARM version of RHEL" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-introduces-arm-server-support-red-hat-enterprise-linux">Red Hat announces ARM version of RHEL</a> &mdash; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 for ARM, the first commercial release for this architecture.</li><li><a title="Oneplus backdoor" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.xda-developers.com/oneplus-root-access-backdoor/">Oneplus backdoor</a> &mdash; OnePlus accidentally left in place a diagnostic testing application made by Qualcomm. After decompiling this application, he discovered that it can be exploited to grant root access—effectively acting as a backdoor.
</li></ul>]]>
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