Monthly Archives: May 2018

Weekly Roundup 2018 – Weeks 20 & 21:

Now that we’re starting to recover from the Grand Update, the mad flow of security and bugfix updates is resuming (see below), and tmb warns of more Spectre-related updates coming: Spectre… “the gift that keeps giving…” https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Spectre-V3-V4-Vulnerabilities Upstream kernel 4.14 … Continue reading

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Issues with the Grand Update?

Most of us will have updated our systems by now, and most of the updates have been as smooth as silk. But! So far there have been two reports of problems with the Grand Update, both caused by having 32-bit … Continue reading

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The Grand Update – brace yourselves!

In the remaining hours before the hdlists are regenerated, and we can all update our Mageia 6 systems with more than 400 packages (update – that’s 405 SRPMs, meaning 1362 rpms per arch), here’s some info – very important info … Continue reading

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The Enormous Mageia 6 Update

Watch this space, we said – well, your patience is soon to be rewarded! Releasing the Mageia 6 updates for QT5, KF5, Plasma, KDE and LXQt has just been approved. There will be well over 500 packages in total! To … Continue reading

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