New changes in Ubuntu 24.04 and how they effect Trisquel 12
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Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone knew about these new changes in Ubuntu noble, and how they will effect Trisquel?
They are for example altering how packages are compiled...
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-04-lts-noble-numbat-release-notes/39890
Package security-hardening improvements
Packages are now built with security-hardening features which stop many undiscovered security vulnerabilities, rendering them unexploitable.
The gcc compiler 111 and dpkg now defaults to -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 instead of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 which greatly increases buffer overflow detection and mitigation.
dpkg now defaults to use -mbranch-protection=standard which mitigates code reuse attacks on arm64.
This is an important change that may present a security issue, in the sense that applications may become vulnerable to instability given poor testing, or poor performance.
I'm reading
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/how-trisquel-made
but I wonder how closely Trisquel is following the developments of Ubuntu, and how their changes upstream might effect the distro for the rest of us
I actually test using all the distro's I can find, and find interesting, and have seen Ubuntu move from a simple and easy to use distro, into one that is heavyweight, slow, prohibitive, compared to others, so I hope that Trisquel doesn't emulate their negative qualities : D
I wonder how trisquel, and ubuntu are compiled now actually, comparing the performance (because I'm always switching between different systems trying new configurations) because hopping on debian is like getting on to a space ship, it's so lightning fast, it's really fitting for my compulsion to use computers hyperactively, trisquel boasts extremely low ram usage for it's desktops which is unparalled across the gnulinux landscape, but I wonder how the rest of the system is configured, and if it couldn't be even better