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Tuesday, December 10th, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 2:04p |
Vetter: Upstream Graphics: Too Little, Too Late Daniel Vetter has posted a
summary of his LPC talk on kernel graphics drivers. " Unfortunately the business case for 'upstream first' on the kernel
side is completely broken. Not for open source, and not for any fundamental
reasons, but simply because the kernel moves too slowly, is too big,
drivers aren’t well contained enough and therefore customer will not or
even can not upgrade. For some hardware upstreaming early enough is
possible, but graphics simply moves too fast: By the time the upstreamed
driver is actually in shipping distros, it’s already one hardware
generation behind. And missing almost a year of tuning and performance
improvements. Worse it’s not just new hardware, but also GL and Vulkan
versions that won’t work on older kernels due to missing features,
fragmenting the ecosystem further." | | 3:52p |
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, jruby, and squid3), Fedora (librabbitmq, libuv, and xpdf), openSUSE (calamares and opera), Oracle (kernel and nss), Red Hat (httpd24-httpd, kernel, kernel-alt, kpatch-patch, nss-softokn, sudo, and thunderbird), SUSE (apache2-mod_perl, java-1_8_0-openjdk, and postgresql), and Ubuntu (eglibc, firefox, and samba). | | 3:54p |
Google Summer of Code 2020 Google Open Source has announcedGoogle Summer of Code (GSoC) 2020, a program that introduces university students to open source development. " And the 'special sauce' that has
kept this program thriving for 16 years: the mentorship aspect of the
program. Participants gain invaluable experience working directly with
mentors who are dedicated members of these open source communities; mentors
help bring students into their communities while teaching them, guiding
them and helping them find their place in the world of open source." Applications for interested organizations open on January 14. | | 7:31p |
Git v2.24.1 and others
The Git project has released Git v2.24.1, v2.23.1, v2.22.2, v2.21.1,
v2.20.2, v2.19.3, v2.18.2, v2.17.3, v2.16.6, v2.15.4, and
v2.14.6. "These releases fix various security flaws, which allowed an
attacker to overwrite arbitrary paths, remotely execute code, and/or
overwrite files in the .git/ directory etc." The release notes
contained in this announcement have the details. | | 9:36p |
[$] New features for the Kubernetes scheduler The Kubernetes scheduler is being overhauled with a series of improvements that will introduce a new framework and enhanced capabilities that could help cluster administrators to optimize performance and utilization. Abdullah Gharaibeh, co-chair of the Kubernetes scheduling special interest group ( SIG
Scheduling), detailed what has been happening with the scheduler in recent releases and what's on the roadmap in a session at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019. |
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