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Kernel prepatch 5.7-rc1

5 év 3 hónap óta
Linus has released the 5.7-rc1 kernel prepatch and closed the merge window for this development cycle. "Maybe an hour or two early, because it's Easter Sunday, and I may be socially distancing but we're still doing the usual Finnish Easter dinner with lamb, mämma and pasha... I may not be religious, but tradition is tradition. Thanks to the social distancing, this year we'll have to forgo trying to force-feed our poor American friends mämma, which never really works out anyway. In fact, I think I can hear the sighs of relief from miles away."
corbet

European funding available for interesting development projects

5 év 3 hónap óta
The NGI POINTER program, funded by the European Commission, is looking for interesting development project to support. Its objective is "to support promising bottom-up projects that are able to build, on top of state-of-the-art research, scalable protocols and tools to assist in the practical transition or migration to new or updated technologies, whilst keeping European Values at the core." The application period is open; there must be no end of interesting projects in the free-software space that would fit within this program's parameters. (Thanks to Thorsten Leemhuis).
corbet

[$] Video conferencing with BigBlueButton

5 év 3 hónap óta
While social distancing often comes naturally to free-software developers, there are still times when we wish to talk to each other. In the absence of community conferences, the next-best alternative is often video conferencing. While video conferences tend to be held using centralized, proprietary systems, there are free alternatives as well. LWN recently looked at Jitsi but this effort did not stop there; next on the list is BigBlueButton, a system that is oriented toward the needs of online educators but is applicable beyond that use case.
corbet

Blender community mourns Octavio Mendez

5 év 3 hónap óta
The Blender 3D modeling and rendering project mourns the passing of Octavio Mendez. "It is with great sadness that I must report we lost a great community member today. Octavio Mendez, a long-time cornerstone of the Mexican Blender and open source community, has passed away after fighting the Corona virus." Gunnar Wolf also has a tribute: "Long-time free software supporter, very well known for his craft –and for his teaching– with Blender."
jake

Security updates for Friday

5 év 3 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (chromium, firefox, haproxy, libssh, and wireshark-cli), Fedora (firefox, glibc, nss, and rubygem-puma), openSUSE (ceph, exim, firefox, and gnuhealth), Oracle (firefox, kernel, and qemu-kvm), and SUSE (djvulibre and firefox).
jake

[$] A new parser for CPython

5 év 3 hónap óta
A new parser for the CPython implementation of the Python language has been in the works for a while, but the announcement of a Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) for it indicates that we may see it fairly soon. The intent is to add the parser, and make it the default for Python 3.9, which is due in October. If that plan holds, the current parser will not be going away for another year or so after that. The change should go completely unnoticed within the community; the benefits are mainly for the CPython core developers in the form of easier maintenance.
jake

Bringing Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise closer together - a proposal

5 év 3 hónap óta
The openSUSE Leap distribution is a community effort built on top of a set of stable packages from the SUSE Linux Enterprise offering. SUSE is now floating a proposal to unify the work of building those two distributions; click below for the details or see the "closing the Leap gap" FAQ, which summarizes things this way: "Today, SUSE is also offering the pre-built binaries from SLE in addition to the sources, to increase compatibility and to leverage synergies." The intended advantages (or "leveraged synergies") seem to be reducing the effort required to create Leap and making it easier to migrate a system between the two distributions.
corbet

The growing disconnect between KDE and the Qt Company

5 év 3 hónap óta
Here's a message posted by Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer to the kde-community mailing list detailing the current state of discussions between the KDE community, the Qt development project, and the Qt Company. It seems they are not going entirely well. "But last week, the company suddenly informed both the KDE e.V. board and the KDE Free QT Foundation that the economic outlook caused by the Corona virus puts more pressure on them to increase short-term revenue. As a result, they are thinking about restricting ALL Qt releases to paid license holders for the first 12 months. They are aware that this would mean the end of contributions via Open Governance in practice."

There is a response from the Qt Company that doesn't add a whole lot.

corbet

Security updates for Thursday

5 év 3 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox, ipmitool, krb5-appl, and telnet), Debian (ceph and firefox-esr), Mageia (firefox), openSUSE (bluez and exiv2), Red Hat (firefox), SUSE (ceph, libssh, mgetty, permissions, python-PyYAML, rubygem-actionview-4_2, and vino), and Ubuntu (libiberty and libssh).
jake

Security updates for Wednesday

5 év 3 hónap óta
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (firefox), Debian (chromium and firefox-esr), Oracle (ipmitool and telnet), Red Hat (firefox and qemu-kvm), Scientific Linux (firefox, krb5-appl, and qemu-kvm), Slackware (firefox), SUSE (gmp, gnutls, libnettle and runc), and Ubuntu (firefox, gnutls28, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gke-4.15, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon, and linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gke-5.0, linux-oem-osp1, linux-oracle-5.0).
ris

[$] Concurrency bugs should fear the big bad data-race detector (part 1)

5 év 3 hónap óta
The first installment of the "big bad" series described how a compiler can optimize your concurrent program into oblivion, while the second installment introduced a tool to analyze small litmus tests for such problems. Those two articles can be especially helpful for training, design discussions, and checking small samples of code. Although such automated training and design tools are welcome, automated code inspection that could locate even one class of concurrency bugs would be even better. In this two-part article, we look at a tool to do that kind of analysis.
jake