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Fedora Targets 99% Package Reproducibility by October

Linux.Slashdot.org - Fri, 04/11/2025 - 17:30
Fedora has proposed a major change for its upcoming version 43 release that aims to achieve 99% package reproducibility, addressing growing concerns about supply-chain security. According to the change proposal announced March 31, Fedora has already reached 90% reproducibility through infrastructure changes including "clamping" file modification times and implementing a Rust-based "add-determinism" tool that standardizes metadata. The remaining 10% will require individual package maintainer involvement, treating reproducibility failures as bugs. The effort will use a public instance of rebuilderd to independently verify that binary packages can be reproduced from source code. Unlike Debian's bit-by-bit reproducibility definition, Fedora allows differences in package signatures and some metadata while requiring identical payloads. The initiative follows similar efforts by Debian and openSUSE, and comes amid heightened focus on supply-chain security after the recent XZ backdoor incident.

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Distribution Release: SparkyLinux 7.7

DistroWatch.com - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 17:15
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Paweł Pijanowski has announced the release of SparkyLinux 7.7, the latest update of the project's set of lightweight distributions based on the current stable release of Debian: "The 7th update of SparkyLinux 7 – 7.7 is out. It is a quarterly updated point release of SparkyLinux 7 'Orion....
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Distribution Release: Feren OS 2025.03

DistroWatch.com - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 10:45
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Dominic Hayes has announced the release of Feren OS 2025.03, a significant update of the project's desktop-oriented Linux distribution with KDE Plasma as the preferred desktop, now based on Ubuntu 22.04: "Today, it is time I announce the release of Feren OS 2025.03, a minor rebase update for....
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Distribution Release: Pardus 23.4

DistroWatch.com - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 07:42
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Pardus is a GNU/Linux distribution jointly developed by the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and National Academic Network and Information Centre (ULAKBİM). The distribution's latest release is version 23.4 which is available in GNOME, Xfce, and Server editions. The project's release notes offer details on....
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Distribution Release: Regata OS 25.0.3

DistroWatch.com - Thu, 04/10/2025 - 00:36
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Josué Vicente has announced the release of an important update of Regata OS, an openSUSE-based distribution with KDE Plasma 6.3, focusing on desktop and gaming. The latest version is labelled as 25.0.3 and carries a code name "Maverick": "Regata OS 25 'Maverick' is now available for download. Initially,....
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