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GNOME's Help Browser Affected By A Serious Security Issue For Arbitrary File Reads

Phoronix - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 08:36
The GNOME Help Browser "Yelp" for viewing HTML / man page / DocBook and other documentation formats from the GNOME desktop is subject to a yet-to-be-patched-upstream security vulnerability that is now public and can allow for arbitrary file reads and could be funneled through your web browser...

GCC 15 Squeezes In Some Last Minute Adjustments For AMD Zen 5 "znver5"

Phoronix - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 03:12
The GCC 15.1 compiler release is expected in the coming weeks as the first stable version of GCC 15 as this annual GNU Compiler Collection release. As we approach the finish line, some last minute changes were merged for the AMD Zen 5 "znver5" CPU target...

TrueNAS 25.04 Released For Unifying SCALE & CORE Offerings

Phoronix - Wed, 04/16/2025 - 00:30
Adding to the busy week of Linux distribution releases from Ubuntu 25.04 to Manjaro 25.04 and Fedora 42, TrueNAS 25.04 debuted today as a major step forward for this open enterprise storage platform...

Fedora Server 42 Is Performing Well On 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin"

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 22:45
Following the recent benchmarking of Ubuntu Server 25.04 in its near final state compared to prior Ubuntu Linux releases, I turned my attention to Fedora Server 42. On the same AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" server I carried out some comparison benchmarks of Fedora Server 42 compared to the prior Fedora Server 41 and other Linux distribution releases for seeing how Fedora 42 is competing with other Linux distributions on this 5th Gen AMD EPYC dual socket server.

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