Linus Torvalds has loosed Linux 4.2-rc1 upon a waiting world, and rates it the biggest release candidate ever in terms of the volume of new code it contains.
The Linux Lord writes that “if you count the size in pure number of lines changed, this really seems to be the biggest rc we’ve ever had, with over a million lines added (and about a quarter million removed).â€
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Canonical has revealed some details in a security notice about a few Oxide vulnerabilities that have been found and repaired in Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS operating systems.
The Solus project is moving very fast, and its developers have managed to push another release out the door, this time with a lot of fixes that have been spotted and repaired in a very short amount of time.
4MLinux, a mini Linux distribution that is focused on the 4Ms of computing, Maintenance (system rescue Live CD), Multimedia (e.g., playing video DVDs), Miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and Mystery (Linux games), has been upgraded to version 13 and is now ready for download.
The GNOME developers are working to improve the functionality and looks of some of the core apps in the stack, and it looks like Photos is just one of them. Allan Day has explained some of the changes that are going to be made to Photos, and they are quite impressive.