Debian 13 Trixie will introduce official support for 64-bit RISC-V CPUs along with 64-bit timekeeping to address the year 2038 clock overflow bug. Trixie continues Debian’s legacy of stability, ...

Open source software doesn’t just happen, of course, but is the result of a lot of unheralded work by a vast range of people. In that context I was interested to see this one pop into my inbox, and it ...

Dates and times stored in 32 bits on Unix-like systems will “overflow” in early 2038 — but the problems, and the patches, start now. Patch early, patch often, they say — almost 13 years early in the ...

I couldn't find the documentation on this, but it did "make sense" that this worked. Anyway, I thought that was neat =) Is it this trivial on the other Linux distros (OpenSUSE/Fedora/Ubuntu?) I assume ...

Congratulations to all involved! This is big news. Does this release use gcc-3.4, or the old 3.3? Is /lib compiled 64 bits, or 32, with a separate /lib64? (This sort of thing would be a lot easier to ...

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) exists in case Ubuntu ever stops being developed. You see, the "regular" Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, so if Canonical ever closed its doors, things would be quite ...

The big picture: On January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC, certain Unix-based computer systems will encounter a critical timekeeping failure. Due to a software flaw known as the "Y2K38 bug," 32-bit ...