Ubuntu 23.10 is a smidge smaller, a bit snappier, and has some desktop upgrades
'Ubuntu 23.10, codenamed Mantic Minotaur, is the 39th Ubuntu release, and it's one of the three smaller interim releases Canonical puts out between long-term support (LTS) versions. This last interim before the next LTS doesn't stand out with bold features you can identify at a glance. But it does set up some useful options and upgrades that should persist in Ubuntu for some time.' -- source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/ubuntu-23-10-is-a-smidge-smaller-a-b... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ Mobile +64 22 190 2375 https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 11:03:55 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/ubuntu-23-10-is-a-smidge-smaller-a-b...
I followed the link to the Google blog post <https://security.googleblog.com/2023/06/learnings-from-kctf-vrps-42-linux.html> that was supposed to say that 44% of exploit chains now make some use of unprivileged user namespaces, and as far as I can tell, it says no such thing. That particular article talks about a kernel feature called io_uring, for doing high-performance asynchronous I/O. While it has been in the kernel for some years, it is still turning up new security holes for adversaries to exploit. Nothing in there about namespaces at all.
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