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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
| Time |
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| 2:51p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (java-11-openjdk, perl-Email-MIME, perl-Email-MIME-ContentType, and slurm), openSUSE (imapfilter, mailman, and python-rpyc), Red Hat (bind and firefox), SUSE (evolution-data-server, python, qemu, and w3m), and Ubuntu (python-django). | | 3:00p |
| | 7:10p |
[$] Free user space for non-graphics drivers In the kernel graphics world, there has been a longstanding " line in the sand" that disallows merging kernel drivers without a corresponding free-software user-space driver. The idea is that not having a way to test the full functionality means that the kernel developers cannot verify the proper functioning and security of the driver; changes to the kernel driver may lead to unforeseen (and untestable) problems on the user-space side. More recently, though, we have seen other types of devices with complex drivers, but no useful free user-space piece, that have been proposed for inclusion into the kernel; at least one was merged, but the tide has perhaps turned against those types of drivers at this point—or some of them, anyway. | | 9:14p |
FreeNAS is coming to Linux The FreeNAS distribution implements network-attached storage on top of the ZFS filesystem; it was reviewed here back in 2015. FreeNAS has always been based on FreeBSD, but now iXsystems, the company behind this system, has announceda new version, called TrueNAS SCALE, that will be based on Debian. " Linux is a key requirement to achieve some of the SCALE project
goals". More information about those goals will evidently be forthcoming in the future. | | 9:43p |
[$] The history and evolution of PHP governance
The PHP language is widely used in solving some of the most interesting technical problems on the web. But for a language with widespread use, it is unique — or at least an outlier — in the way it’s governed compared to other open-source projects. Unlike others, PHP governance has grown into something fairly democratic for a project its size, allowing almost anyone to bring an idea to the table. If it’s popular enough, that idea can find it's way into a future release. That is, of course, as long as there is a developer to put in the work to make it happen. |
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