'Half a Second' chronicles the XZ Utils backdoor attempt—from a patient impostor maintainer to the half-second latency that exposed the plot.
Posts published in “Developer”
What began as one developer’s need to test a Floppy Emu device grew into a full set of SWIM driver fixes for aging Apple hardware.
Built on debsecan, debvulns‑exporter surfaces Debian security metadata for Prometheus and Grafana.
GCC's latest and greatest is available at https://sourceware.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-14.4.0/ and https://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html/.
Earmarked donations let GNOME fund two fellows to modernize Files (Nautilus), improve tooling, and bolster project-level governance.
The PHP Group retires its quirky, and partly non‑GPL‑compatible licenses in favor of the widely used BSD 3‑Clause.
In this low‑pressure Monday meetup, Otto Kekäläinen helps aspiring Debian devs untangle packaging puzzles, absorb the culture, and turn curiosity into accepted contributions.
The Open Source Endowment promises a permanent funding fix for vital open source infrastructure, yet its slow‑drip investment approach raises questions about how much help will reach projects that need cash now.
Record donations, busy developers, and a proposal to slow down Linux Mint’s release cadence. We want to know if you’re on board.
A mainstay of KDE development news is about to change: Nate Graham wants to step back from his “This Week in Plasma” column and is inviting others to carry it forward.