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Wednesday, April 5th, 2017
| Time |
Event |
| 1:58p |
[$] An update on storage standards
In a second-day plenary session at the 2017 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and
Memory-Management Summit, Fred Knight updated the
attendees on what has happened in the storage standards world over the last
year. While the transports (e.g. Fibre Channel, Ethernet) and the SCSI
protocol have not seen a ton
of changes over the last year, the NVM Express (NVMe) standards have had a
lot of action. | | 3:41p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-django), Fedora (firebird), openSUSE (pidgin and ruby2.2, ruby2.3), Red Hat (v8), Scientific Linux (bash, coreutils, curl, glibc, gnutls, kernel, libguestfs, ocaml, openssh, qemu-kvm, quagga, samba, samba4, subscription-manager, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (lightdm, linux-hwe, linux-lts-trusty, linux-lts-xenial, linux-ti-omap4, and python-django). | | 3:52p |
[$] A Python static typing update
One of the larger features added to Python over the last few releases is
support for static typing in the language. Static type-checking and tools
to support it show up frequently
as topics at the Python Language
Summit (PLS) and this year was no exception. Mypy developers Jukka Lehtosalo and Ivan
Levkivskyi gave an update on static typing at PLS 2018. | | 3:59p |
Release for CentOS Linux 6.9
CentOS Linux 6.9 has been released for i386 and x86_64 architectures.
"CentOS Linux 6.9 is derived from source code released by Red Hat,
Inc. for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9. All upstream variants have been placed
into one combined repository to make it easier for end users.
Workstation, server, and minimal installs can all be done from our
combined repository. All of our testing is only done against this
combined distribution." | | 6:10p |
Shuttleworth: Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, rather than Phone and convergence Mark Shuttleworth reports
that Canonical is ending its investment in Unity8, the phone and
convergence shell. GNOME will be the default desktop for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
" The choice, ultimately, is to invest in the areas which are
contributing to the growth of the company. Those are Ubuntu itself, for
desktops, servers and VMs, our cloud infrastructure products (OpenStack and
Kubernetes) our cloud operations capabilities (MAAS, LXD, Juju, BootStack),
and our IoT story in snaps and Ubuntu Core. All of those have communities,
customers, revenue and growth, the ingredients for a great and independent
company, with scale and momentum. This is the time for us to ensure, across
the board, that we have the fitness and rigour for that path."
(Thanks to Unnikrishnan Alathady Maloor) | | 6:19p |
[$] Booting from remote storage In the only storage-only LSFMM 2017 session that LWN was able to attend—it was scheduled opposite the one-and-only filesystem
and memory management combined session—Lee Duncan explored some of the questions and problems he sees in booting from remote storage. He said that he wanted to get feedback from the assembled developers to see where solutions might lie. |
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