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Friday, May 15th, 2020

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    12:39p
    Going above and beyond with Inkscape 1.0 (Libre Graphics World)
    Libre Graphics World is running an
    extensive interview     with several Inkscape developers.

    "I'd say we're at the point of supporting SVG as much as possible,
    but we've mostly given up trying to add editing features to the SVG
    specification. As the W3C is dominated by web browsers who don't need multi
    page or connectors.

    I dare not say much more about W3C-specific things. I know that I'm
    personally disappointed that Inkscape's considerable importance in the SVG
    creation space does not lend itself to getting the feature we intend to
    build into Inkscape into the actual SVG specification. This does lead to
    the problem that going forwards we're likely to have browser
    incompatibilities.    "
    12:48p
    Five years of Rust
    It seems that the Rust programming language has
    only been around for five years    . "With all that's going on in
    the world you'd be forgiven for forgetting that as of today, it has been
    five years since we released 1.0 in 2015! Rust has changed a lot these past
    five years, so we wanted reflect back on all of our contributors' work
    since the stabilization of the language.    "
    2:56p
    Security updates for Friday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (apt, inetutils, and log4net), Fedora (kernel, mailman, and viewvc), Gentoo (chromium, freerdp, libmicrodns, live, openslp, python, vlc, and xen), Oracle (.NET Core, container-tools:1.0, and kernel), Red Hat (kernel-rt), Scientific Linux (kernel), SUSE (kernel, libvirt, python-PyYAML, and syslog-ng), and Ubuntu (json-c).
    4:00p
    [$] Testing scheduler thermal properties for avionics
    Linux is not heavily used in safety-critical systems — yet. There is an
    increasing level of interest in such deployments, though, and that is
    driving a number of initiatives to determine how Linux can be made suitable
    for safety-critical environments. At the 2020 Power Management and Scheduling
    in the Linux Kernel summit     (OSPM), Michal Sojka shone a light on one
    corner of this work: testing the thermal characteristics of Linux systems
    with an eye toward deployment in avionics systems.
    5:20p
    [$] Utilization inversion and proxy execution
    Over the years, the kernel's CPU scheduler has become increasingly aware of
    how much load every task is putting on the system; this information is used
    to make smarter task placement decisions. Sometimes, though, this logic
    can go wrong, leading to a situation that Valentin Schneider describes as
    "utilization inversion". At the 2020 Power Management and Scheduling
    in the Linux Kernel summit     (OSPM), he described the problem and some
    approaches that are being considered to address it.

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