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Thursday, November 1st, 2018
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Event |
| 12:26a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 1, 2018
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 1, 2018 is available. | | 3:07p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (phpldapadmin, poppler, and tzdata), Fedora (firefox, java-11-openjdk, libarchive, sos-collector, and teeworlds), Scientific Linux (java-1.7.0-openjdk, python-paramiko, and thunderbird), Slackware (curl), and SUSE (kernel, MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE, llvm4, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss, apache2-mod_nss, and wireshark). | | 5:55p |
Introducing Zink, an OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan (Collabora blog) Over at the Collabora blog, Erik Faye-Lund writes about Zink, which is an effort to create an OpenGL driver on top of Vulkan that he has been working on with Dave Airlie. " One problem is that OpenGL is a big API with a lot of legacy stuff that has accumulated since its initial release in 1992. OpenGL is well-established as a requirement for applications and desktop compositors.
But since the very successful release of Vulkan, we now have two main-stream APIs for essentially the same hardware functionality.
It's not looking like neither OpenGL nor Vulkan is going away, and the software-world is now hard at work implementing Vulkan support everywhere, which is great. But this leads to complexity. So my hope is that we can simplify things here, by only require things like desktop compositors to support one API down the road. We're not there yet, though; not all hardware has a Vulkan-driver, and some older hardware can't even support it. But at some point in the not too far future, we'll probably get there.
This means there might be a future where OpenGL's role could purely be one of legacy application compatibility. Perhaps Zink can help making that future a bit closer?" | | 7:52p |
[$] Protecting the open-source license commons Richard Fontana has a long history working with open-source licenses in commercial environments. He came to the 2018
Open Source Summit Europe with a talk that, he said, had never before been presented outside of "secret assemblies of lawyers"; it gave an interesting view of licenses as resources that are shared within the community and the risks that this shared nature may present. While our licenses have many good properties, including a de facto standardization role, those properties come with some unique and increasing risks when it comes to litigation. |
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