Kernel Development Weather Forecast
The Linux Foundation now offers a page with information on current and planned kernel development dubbed the "Linux Weather Forecast".
The page lists and explains current kernel features. It also gives users a sneak preview of features which will be making their way into the official kernel, or the kernels of major distributions, in the future, and it provides links to sites with more details. The page's "Head Meteorologist" is Jonathan Corbet, the editor in chief of commercial Linux news service provider, LWN.
Readers of Kerneltrap.org or LWN will probably be familiar with the content of the page, according to a comment by US online journal Ars Technica. The target audience is Linux users who already possess basic knowledge of underlying kernel technologies, but do not subscribe to mailing lists or other information services to keep up to date with kernel development.
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KDE Announces Software Compilation 4.13
New release comes with better semantic search and improvements to Kontact.
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Coverity: Open Source Code has Fewer Defects
Annual code quality report shows FOSS is more secure at all project size levels.
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An Even Smaller Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced an even smaller version of the tiny computer that will fit into a DIMM slot.
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Freaky Privilege Escalation Attack
A new class of problems lets a malicious app pre-configure an invisible privilege update.
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Facebook Rolls Out New PHP-like Programming Language
New Hack language adds static typing and other conveniences.
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Fedora Announces Innovative Crytography Policy System
New crypto policy system will offer easier configuration and more uniform security.
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Shuttleworth Calls for Declarative Firmware
Ubuntu founder denounces insecurity in proprietary, close-source software blobs.
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New TLS Attack Takes the S out of HTTPS
Vulnerability affects many Linux web servers
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Munich Adopts Kolab
The Bavarian capital shuns Microsoft, Google, and other alternatives to implement an open source groupware solution.
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Canonical Announces Ubuntu Smartphones
Phone vendor partnerships bring Mark Shuttleworth's dream of Ubuntu on a phone a step closer to reality.