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Debian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunset ( www.phoronix.com )

Debian developer Julian Andres Klode sent out a message on Halloween that may give some Debian Linux users and developers a spook: the APT packaging tool next year will begin requiring a Rust compiler. This will place a hard requirement by Debian Linux on Rust support for all architectures. Debian CPU architectures with ports ...

Servo 0.0.1 Browser Engine Released ( www.phoronix.com )

FREE SOFTWARE It was to much surprise waking up this morning and seeing the Servo 0.0.1 release for this Rust-based web layout engine that began as a Mozilla project and is now being developed independently via Linux Foundation Europe and other parties. Servo v0.0.1 was tagged in Git today as a rare tagged release for this web ...

Servo's Demo Browser Adds Experimental Mode & More Performance Improvements - Phoronix ( www.phoronix.com )

The Servo open-source browser engine is out with their September 2025 development highlights. This Rust-based browser engine originally started by Mozilla continues making steady progress as well as to the "servoshell" demo/example browser implementation. [...] ...

Arch Linux AUR Hit by Another DDoS Attack, Port 22 Access Disrupted ( linuxiac.com )

The Arch Linux team has once again been forced to respond to a distributed denial-of-service attack targeting its AUR repository infrastructure. As a result, DDoS protection has been enabled for aur.archlinux.org to help mitigate the ongoing disruption. ...