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Monday, September 1st, 2014
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Event |
| 11:50a |
Kernel prepatch 3.17-rc3 The 3.17 development cycle continues with the release of 3.17-rc3. " As expected, it is larger
than rc2, since people are clearly getting back from their Kernel Summit
travels etc. But happily, it's not *much* larger than rc2 was, and there's
nothing particularly odd going on, so I'm going to just ignore the whole
'it's summer' argument, and hope that things are just going that
well." | | 11:58a |
Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems Lennart Poettering has posted a
lengthy writeup of a plan put together by the "systemd cabal" (his words) to rework Linux software distribution. It is based heavily on namespaces and Btrfs snapshots. " Now, with the name-spacing concepts
we introduced above, we can actually relatively freely mix and match apps
and OSes, or develop against specific frameworks in specific versions on
any operating system. It doesn't matter if you booted your ArchLinux
instance, or your Fedora one, you can execute both LibreOffice and Firefox
just fine, because at execution time they get matched up with the right
runtime, and all of them are available from all the operating systems you
installed. You get the precise runtime that the upstream vendor of
Firefox/LibreOffice did their testing with. It doesn't matter anymore which
distribution you run, and which distribution the vendor prefers." |
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