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Friday, September 17th, 2021
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| 1:59p |
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox and thunderbird), Fedora (haproxy, wordpress, and xen), openSUSE (apache2-mod_auth_openidc, fail2ban, ghostscript, haserl, libcroco, nextcloud, and wireshark), Oracle (kernel and kernel-container), Slackware (httpd), SUSE (crmsh, gtk-vnc, libcroco, Mesa, postgresql12, postgresql13, and transfig), and Ubuntu (libgcrypt20, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-oem-5.13, python3.4, python3.5, and qtbase-opensource-src). | | 3:55p |
[$] Key Rust concepts for the kernel The first day of the online Kangrejos conference was focused on introducing the effort to bring the Rust programming language into the Linux kernel. On the second day, conference organizer Miguel Ojeda shifted to presenting the Rust language itself with an emphasis on what Rust can provide for kernel development. The result was a useful resource for anybody who is curious about this project, but who has not yet had the time to become familiar with Rust. | | 4:06p |
Conill: The long-term consequences of maintainers’ actions Ariadne Conill looks
at the difficulties caused by the OpenSSL 3 transition in the
context of Alpine Linux.
For distributions, however, the story is different:
cryptography moved to using Rust, because they wanted to
leverage all of the static analysis capabilities built into the
language. This, too, is a reasonable decision, from a development
perspective. From the ecosystem perspective, however, it is
problematic, as the Rust ecosystem is still rapidly evolving, and
so we cannot support a single branch of the Rust compiler for an
entire 2 year lifecycle, which means it exists in community. Our
solution, historically, has been to hold cryptography at
the latest version that did not require Rust to build. However,
that version is not compatible with OpenSSL 3, and so it will
eventually need to be upgraded to a new version which is. And so,
since cryptography has to move to community, so does
paramiko and Ansible.
| | 4:12p |
Schaller: Cool happenings in Fedora Workstation land Here's a
post from Christian Schaller describing a number of the
desktop-oriented improvements that can be expected in the Fedora 35
release.
And I know some people will wonder why we spent so much time
working with NVidia around their binary driver, but the reality is
that NVidia is the market leader, especially in the professional
Linux workstation space, and there are lot of people who either
would end up not using Linux or using Linux with X without it,
including a lot of Red Hat customers and Fedora users. And that is
what I and my team are here for at the end of the day, to make sure
Red Hat customers are able to get their job done using their Linux
systems.
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