Re: Concerns about Security of packages in Debain OS and the Operating system itself.

2022-04-17 Thread lkcl
On 17/04/2022 19:26, Satvik Sinha wrote: > abusing your OS's reputation? i believe the answer is in the question. debian is based on distributed trust. i did the analysis (took 3 weeks): it is literally the only distro in the world with an inviolate chain of trust from a large keyring datin

Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update)

2022-04-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 09:07:10AM +0200, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: > That is not correct. You can make use of SSE instructions also in > x86_32/i386 mode. > > I found f.i.: > https://gcc.gcc.gnu.narkive.com/k0KqaZF2/i386-sse-test-question Well x86_64 uses it all the time, not just optionally,

Concerns about Security of packages in Debain OS and the Operating system itself.

2022-04-17 Thread Satvik Sinha
Hi,guys and Good Day! So in recent days ,it was observed that many open source contributors vandalised their or someone else's project's reputation to show agendas of Russia-Ukraine war, Some even vandalised their project to destroy system in Russia and Belarus (Node-ipc being one of them) that af

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update

2022-04-17 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Just make sure you comment out the tests. It will greatly speed up compilation and one of these tests was even hanging two times: ./a.out -test.short -test.timeout=240s It is a known Debian Bug that the Go tests (a programming language) fail with with gcc-8. If not you would have to connect

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update

2022-04-17 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Likely it is possible to comment out the tournament checks after compilation (which did not succeed to find this error any way) in debian/rules; I would do it like this: check: check22: $(check_stamp) $(check_stamp): $(build_stamp) $(MAKE) -f debian/rules2 $@ (here I have renamed chec

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update

2022-04-17 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
I have now downloaded the source package and examined the backtrace of building Firefox and examined all the differences between gcc 8.3.0-1 (known bad from Debian10) and gcc 9.2.0 with gcc 9.2.1 being known to be good for moc/Qt5 from Ubuntu 19.10. There was only one difference I found along

Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium?

2022-04-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 10:05:39AM +0200, Friedhelm Waitzmann wrote: vendor_id   : GenuineIntel cpu family  : 15 model   : 2 model name  : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz stepping    : 4 cpu MHz : 1993.656 cache size  : 512 KB ? Celeron 440 for sure is 64-

Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium?

2022-04-17 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 4/17/22 4:52 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Elmar Stellnberger (2022-04-17): I haven´t heard yet of a Pentium IV supporting amd64. Likely it does not exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_4_processors seems to disagree in general. Willamette seems to be old enough to be

Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium?

2022-04-17 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Elmar Stellnberger (2022-04-17): > I haven´t heard yet of a Pentium IV supporting amd64. > Likely it does not exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_4_processors seems to disagree in general. Willamette seems to be old enough to be 32-bit only though. Cheers, -- Cyril Brule

Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium?

2022-04-17 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
I haven´t heard yet of a Pentium IV supporting amd64. Likely it does not exist. On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 10:05:39AM +0200, Friedhelm Waitzmann wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > piorunz: > > On 12/04/2022 04:59, Friedhelm Waitzmann wrote: > > > You mean, that it is poss

Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium?

2022-04-17 Thread Friedhelm Waitzmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 piorunz: On 12/04/2022 04:59, Friedhelm Waitzmann wrote: You mean, that it is possible to run amd64 on my old hardware 1# vendor_id   : GenuineIntel cpu family  : 6 model   : 22 model name  : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU