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Nem ússza meg az Apple az App Store reformját

4 hét óta
A bírói testület elutasította az Apple sürgősségi kérelmét, amely az Epic Games-szel való jogi csata eredményeként létrejött változtatások felfüggesztésére irányult az App Store-ban.
HWSW

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 5, 2025

4 hét 1 nap óta
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

  • Front: OpenH264 in Fedora; Wallabag; Safety certification; 6.16 Merge window; Bounce buffering; Hardening repository problems; Device-initiated I/O; Faster networking; OSPM 2025; Free software in science.
  • Briefs: Kea vulnerabilities; Alpine Linux 3.22.0; Fedora strategy; Quotes; ...
  • Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
corbet

[$] Device-initiated I/O

4 hét 1 nap óta
Peer-to-peer DMA (P2PDMA) has been part of the kernel since the 4.20 release in 2018; it provides a framework that allows devices to transfer data between themselves directly, without using system RAM for the transfer. At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Stephen Bates led a combined storage, filesystems, and memory-management session on device-initiated I/O, which is perhaps what P2PDMA is evolving toward. Two years ago, he led a session on P2PDMA at the summit; this year's session was a brief update on P2PDMA with a look at where it may be heading.
jake

Strategy 2028 update (Fedora Community Blog)

4 hét 1 nap óta

Outgoing Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller has posted an update on Fedora's high-level plan through 2028:

[Fedora] Council members identified potential Initiatives that we believe are important to work on next. We came up with a list of thirteen — which is way more than we can handle at once. We previously set a limit of four Initiatives at a time. We decided to keep to that rule, and are planning to launch four initiatives in the next months

The initiatives are: making Fedora releases block on accessibility issues, experimenting with a "GitOps" workflow for packaging, migrating from Pagure to Forgejo, and "making sure Fedora Linux is ready for people who want to work on machine learning and AI development".

jzb

[$] Two sessions on faster networking

4 hét 1 nap óta

Cong Wang and Daniel Borkmann each led session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit about their respective plans to speed up networking in the Linux kernel. Both sessions described ways to remove unnecessary operations in the networking stack, but they focused on different areas. Wang spoke about using BPF to speed up socket operations, while Borkmann spoke about eliminating the overhead of networking operations on virtual machines.

daroc

[$] The importance of free software to science

4 hét 1 nap óta
Free software plays a critical role in science, both in research and in disseminating it. Aspects of software freedom are directly relevant to simulation, analysis, document preparation and preservation, security, reproducibility, and usability. Free software brings practical and specific advantages, beyond just its ideological roots, to science, while proprietary software comes with equally specific risks. As a practicing scientist, I would like to help others—scientists or not—see the benefits from free software in science.
jake

Security updates for Wednesday

4 hét 1 nap óta
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (git, krb5, perl-CPAN, and rsync), Debian (tcpdf), Fedora (libmodsecurity, lua-http, microcode_ctl, and nextcloud), Red Hat (osbuild-composer), SUSE (389-ds, avahi, ca-certificates-mozilla, docker, expat, freetype2, glib2, gnuplot, gnutls, golang-github-teddysun-v2ray-plugin, golang-github-v2fly-v2ray-core, govulncheck-vulndb, helm, iperf, kernel, kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_2, kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_4, krb5, libarchive, libsoup, libsoup2, libtasn1, libX11, libxml2, libxslt, orc, podman, python-Jinja2, python-requests, python3-setuptools, python310, python311, python39, rubygem-rack, sslh, SUSE Manager Client Tools, SUSE Manager Client Tools and Salt Bundle, ucode-intel, util-linux, and wget), and Ubuntu (libvpx, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-intel-iotg, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-oracle, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-aws, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws-fips, linux-azure-fips, linux-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-aws-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-azure-fde, linux-fips, and linux-intel-iot-realtime, linux-realtime).
jzb

Androidra is megjött az Adobe Photoshop

4 hét 1 nap óta
Az Adobe folyamatosan terjeszti ki a népszerű képszerkesztő elérhetőségét különböző platformokon, az iOS-es verzió után az androidos alkalmazás is érkezik.
HWSW

[$] Safety certification for open-source systems

1 hónap óta

This year's Linaro Connect in Lisbon, Portugal featured a number of talks about the use of open-source components in safety-critical systems. Kate Stewart gave a keynote on the topic on the first day of the conference. In it, she highlighted several projects that have been working to pursue safety certification and spoke about the importance of being able to trace software's origins to safety. In a talk on the second day, Roberto Bagnara shared his experience with working on one of those projects, the Xen hypervisor, to conform to a formal set of rules for safety-critical code.

daroc