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Plans for CHICKEN 6

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[$] Book review: Run Your Own Mail Server

The most common piece of advice given to users who ask about running their own mail server is don't. Setting up and securing a mail server in 2024 is not for the faint of heart, no [...]

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[$] Fedora KDE gets a promotion

The Fedora Project is set to welcome a second desktop edition to its lineup after months (or years, depending when one starts the clock) of discussions. The project recently decide [...]

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[$] Building secure images with NixOS

Image-based Linux distributions have seen increasing popularity, recently. They promise reliability and security, but pose packaging problems for existing distributions. Ryan Lahfa [...]

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Coker: The CUPS vulnerability

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Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

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Introducing AlmaLinux OS Kitten (AlmaLinux Blog)

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[$] The Open Source Pledge: peer pressure to pay maintainers

In the early days of open source, it was a struggle to get companies to accept the concept and trust its development model. Now, companies have few qualms about using it, but do te [...]

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RPM 4.20 released

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[$] The WordPress mess

WordPress is the world's most popular open‑source blogging and content‑management platform. In its 20‑plus years of existence, WordPress has been something of a p [...]

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Tcl/Tk 9.0 released

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NGINX has moved to Github

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[$] NIST finalizes post-quantum encryption standards

On August 13, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the final form of its new post-quantum cryptographic standards. One key-exchange mechanism and [...]

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[$] A SpamAssassin surprise

Here is a piece of advice for anybody wanting an easy and frustration-free life: do not run your own email system. While there numerous advantages to keeping some control over you [...]

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Understanding the Postgres Hackers Mailing List Language

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Kernel prepatch 6.11-rc5

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Forgejo changes license to GPLv3+

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[$] FreeBSD considers Rust in the base system

The FreeBSD Project is, for the second time this year, engaging in a long-running discussion about the possibility of including Rust in its base system. The sequel to the first dis [...]

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Zuckerberg: Open Source AI Is the Path Forward

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[$] Restricting execution of scripts — the third approach

The kernel will not consent to execute just any file that happens to be sitting in a filesystem; there are formalities, such as the checking of execute permission and consulting se [...]

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