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lwn-podcastJan 19, 2020
Finer-grained kernel address-space layout randomization
A new KASLR proposal surfaces
Debian discusses how to handle 2038
Now that the kernel work to support 32-bit systems past 2038 is mostly done, what will be required to get Debian into shape?
Browsers, web sites, and user tracking
A Chrome tracking feature creates consternation.
How to contribute to kernel documentation
A new kernel document on how to make kernel documentation better.
Fedora gathering requirements for a Git forge
What, if anything, should replace Pagure in the Fedora project's workflow?
Cryptography and elections
Making elections secure and fair is harder than it seems.
Poker and FOSS
Bradley Kuhn explores the intersection of online poker playing and free software.
The dark side of expertise
A linux.conf.au keynote on when our expertise can blind us
Brief Items 9-Jan-2020
Brief news items from throughout the community.
A medley of performance-related BPF patches
BPF is being sped up in a number of ways.
Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool
Kernel developers give up on providing "true" random numbers.
Brief items - 02-Jan-2020
Brief news items from throughout the community.
Fedora and fstrim
Should Fedora systems run fstrim by default?
LWN's 2020 vision
Our traditional selection of unlikely predictions for the coming year.
Brief items - 19-Dec-2019
Brief news items from throughout the community.
A year-end wrap-up from LWN
Reviewing our January predictions and closing out the year.
Explicit pinning of user-space pages
Another baby step toward a solution to the problems with get_user_pages().
Buffered I/O without page-cache thrashing
Combining the convenience of buffered I/O with the performance of direct I/O.
One million ought to be enough for anybody
A proposal for arbitrary limits on several Python parameters.
Fedora and optical media testing
By Jake Edge
December 18, 2019
Dec-12-2019 Weekly Edition
- OpenBSD system-call-origin verification: a new anti-ROP approach from OpenBSD.
- Debian votes on init systems: the voting to determine the Debian project's position on init systems (and systemd in particular) has begun.
- The end of the 5.5 merge window: another 6,000 patches worth of new stuff goes into the kernel.
- Developers split over split-lock detection: should this feature be on by default, even if it might break some applications?
- Working toward securing PyPI downloads: the process of securing the Python Package Index is slow and halting.
- New features for the Kubernetes scheduler: what the core Kubernetes developers are up to.
Dec-05-2019 Weekly Edition
- A static-analysis framework for GCC: bringing a much-needed diagnostic feature to the GCC compiler.
- 5.5 Merge window, part 1: what the first 6,300 changesets brought into the mainline for 5.5.
- Virtio without the "virt": the virtio specification isn't just for software anymore.
- Fixing SCHED_IDLE: a longstanding but little-used scheduler feature is finally being worked into shape.
- Fedora's modularity mess: the Fedora modularity initiative has run into a number of obstacles without clear solutions.
- Creating Kubernetes distributions: can a Kubernetes distribution become more like a Linux distribution?
Nov-21-2019 Weekly Edition
- LSM stacking and the future: the long-running security-module stacking project is finally reaching fruition.
- A recap of KVM Forum 2019: many topics from the 2019 KVM Forum meeting.
- Enhancing KVM for guest protection and security: various approaches to securing virtualized guests from each other and from the host system.
- Some near-term arm64 hardening patches: several security improvements for the arm64 architecture that should land soon.
- Keeping memory contents secret: the problem of protecting memory contents from snooping.
- The Yocto Project 3.0 release: new features in this distribution release, including a much more efficient build system.