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Wednesday, August 28th, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 2:22p |
Rust is the future of systems programming, C is the new Assembly (Packt) Packt has published a
lengthy writeup of a talk by Josh Triplett on work being done to advance the Rust language for system-level programming. " Systems
programming often involves low-level manipulations and requires low-level
details of the processors such as privileged instructions. For this, Rust
supports using inline Assembly via the 'asm!' macro. However, it is only
present in the nightly compiler and not yet stabilized. Triplett in a
collaboration with other Rust developers is writing a proposal to introduce
more robust syntax for inline Assembly." | | 2:28p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (dovecot), Fedora (docker and nghttp2), Oracle (pango), SUSE (apache2, fontforge, ghostscript-library, libreoffice, libvirt, podman, slirp4netns and libcontainers-common, postgresql10, and slurm), and Ubuntu (dovecot). | | 3:13p |
[$] Ask the TAB The Linux Foundation (LF) Technical
Advisory Board (TAB) is meant to give the kernel community some representation within the foundation. In a "birds of a feather" (BoF) session at the 2019
Open Source Summit North America, four TAB members participated in an "Ask the TAB" session. Laura Abbott organized the BoF and Tim Bird, Greg Kroah-Hartman, and Steven Rostedt joined in as well. In the session, the history behind the TAB, its role, and some of its activities over the years were described. | | 4:46p |
GNOME Foundation launches Coding Education Challenge The GNOME Foundation, with support from Endless, has announcedthe Coding Education Challenge, a competition aimed to attract projects that offer educators and students new and innovative ideas to teach coding with free and open source software. " Anyone is encouraged to submit a proposal. Individuals and teams will be judged through three tiers of competition. Twenty winners will be selected from an open call for ideas and will each receive $6,500 in prize money. Those winners will progress to a proof of concept round and build a working prototype. Five winners from that round will be awarded $25,000 and progress to the final round where they will turn the prototype into an end product. The final winner will receive a prize of $100,000 and the second placed product a prize of $25,000." | | 5:28p |
Microsoft to put exFAT support into the kernel Linux support for the exFAT filesystem has had a long and troubled history; Microsoft has long asserted patents in this area that have prevented that code from being merged into the kernel. Microsoft has just changed its tune, announcingthat upstreaming exFAT is now OK: " It’s important to us that the
Linux community can make use of exFAT included in the Linux kernel with
confidence. To this end, we will be making Microsoft’s technical
specification for exFAT publicly available to facilitate development of
conformant, interoperable implementations. We also support the eventual
inclusion of a Linux kernel with exFAT support in a future revision of the
Open Invention Network’s Linux System Definition, where, once accepted, the
code will benefit from the defensive patent commitments of OIN’s 3040+
members and licensees." | | 10:41p |
[$] Open-source voting for San Francisco To open-source fans, the lure of open-source voting systems is surely strong. So a talk at 2019
Open Source Summit North America on a project for open-source voting in San Francisco sounded promising; it is a city with lots of technical know-how among its inhabitants. While progress has definitely been made—though at an almost glacially slow speed—there is no likelihood that the city will be voting using open-source software in the near future. The talk by Tony Wasserman was certainly interesting, however, and provided a look at the intricacies of elections and voting that make it clear the problem is not as easy as it might at first appear. |
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