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
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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
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
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
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
5 év 3 hónap óta
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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
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
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
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
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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 9, 2020 is available.
corbet
5 év 3 hónap óta
Stable kernels
5.6.3,
5.5.16, and
5.4.31 have been released. As usual, they all
contain important fixes and users should upgrade.
ris
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
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
5 év 3 hónap óta