Hello all! The news of the week is definitely our release of Adélie Linux 1.0-RC1. It doesn’t stop there, though. We’ve made a lot of exciting progress since then. Horizon The DiskMan component has been written, and with it, the majority of the Qt 5-based partitioning user interface. Calvin Buckley has rewritten the Horizon CLI …
Hello all! This has been an exciting week for Adélie Linux. We have formally created an Infrastructure Team, responsible for managing our servers and network infrastructure. This will allow us to have a more holistic approach to tending to our server systems, and help ensure that administration is handled smoothly and cleanly. We have also …
A grave security vulnerability has been found in apk, the package manager used by Adélie Linux. The vulnerability allows any attacker on the same network as your computer run malicious code as the superuser, if you are not using HTTPS repositories in /etc/apk/repositories. This should not affect any standard installation of Adélie Linux, as our …
Urgent security patch for all systems running Adélie Linux Read More »
Many of you that use x86_64 computers are likely concerned with the various security flaws that have been discovered in the silicon of virtually all 64-bit Intel CPUs this year. There have also been a few requests for packaging official microcode updates. Unfortunately, the EULA required to install, use, and redistribute these microcode updates is …
Official statement on x86_64 architecture security flaws Read More »
A few people have asked us about when the Rust programming language will be packaged for Adélie. The short answer is that the Rust programming language fails the requirement that it can be packaged on all tier 1 architectures, and additionally fails to meet our libre source requirements. These issues are not insurmountable, and I …
Our official stance on the Rust programming language Read More »
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