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A developer writes a lightweight GTK4-based ssh-askpass utility in Zig to avoid pulling in X11 or KDE dependencies on their hardened Gentoo system, using hand-written GTK4 bindings.
Michał Górny details the evolution of pkgbump, a Gentoo developer tool for automating package version bumps, from a simple script to a versatile helper supporting version increments and group operations.
The author debugs a segfault encountered during kernel installation, tracing it to the 'hardlink' command invoked by dracut, and uses gdb to investigate the crash.
Gentoo Linux reports on the Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities, noting that they have patched supported kernels and advising users to upgrade.