Linus Torvalds On Where Rust Will Fit Into Linux
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a ZDNet article, written by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Linux is the poster-child for the C language. But times change. The Rust language has been slowly gathering support for use as a system language in Linu.....»»
The Rust Programming Language Finds a New Home in a Nonprofit Foundation
Rust -- the programming language, not the survival game -- now has a new home: the Rust Foundation. From a report: AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla banded together to launch this new foundation today and put a two-year commitment to a milli.....»»
How rocks rusted on Earth and turned red
How did rocks rust on Earth and turn red? A Rutgers-led study has shed new light on the important phenomenon and will help address questions about the Late Triassic climate more than 200 million years ago, when greenhouse gas levels were high enough.....»»
The Rust programming language finds a new home in a nonprofit foundation
Rust — the programming language, not the survival game — now has a new home: the Rust Foundation. AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla banded together to launch this new foundation today and put a two-year commitment to a million-do.....»»
The Rust programming language finds a new home in a non-profit foundation
Rust — the programming language, not the survival game — now has a new home: the Rust Foundation. AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla banded together to launch this new foundation today and put a two-year commitment to a million-do.....»»
The Open-Source Magma Project Will Become 5G"s Linux
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Magma was developed by Facebook to help telecom operators deploy mobile networks quickly and easily. The project, which Facebook open-sourced in 2019, does this by providing a software-centric distribut.....»»
Fungus that eats fungus could help coffee farmers
Coffee rust is a parasitic fungus and a big problem for coffee growers around the world. A study in the birthplace of coffee—Ethiopia—shows that another fungus seems to have the capacity to supress the rust outbreaks in this landscape......»»
13-year analysis sheds new light on wheat crop disease patterns in Ethiopia
A new study of wheat rust—a fungal disease that can harm wheat crops—identifies previously unknown long-term trends and hotspots for wheat rust outbreaks in Ethiopia. A team of modelers from the University of Cambridge and the Universität Hambur.....»»
Recent Root-Giving Sudo Bug Also Impacts macOS
A British security researcher has discovered this week that a recent security flaw in the Sudo app also impacts the macOS operating system, and not just Linux and BSD, as initially believed. From a report: The vulnerability, disclosed last week as CV.....»»
From rust to riches: Computing goes green—or is that brown?
Current silicon-based computing technology is energy-inefficient. Information and communications technology is projected to use over 20% of global electricity production by 2030. So finding ways to decarbonise technology is an obvious target for ener.....»»
Containerize all the things with Ubuntu Core 20
What if everything—and we mean everything—was a container? Enlarge / You might draw a fairly similar schematic diagram to give someone a simplified idea of how a traditional Linux distribution is put together—but it wouldn't be as close to.....»»
While Recreating CentOS as "Rocky Linux", Gregory Kurtzer Also Launches a Sponsoring Startup
"Gregory Kurtzer, co-founder of the now-defunct CentOS Linux distribution, has founded a new startup company called Ctrl IQ, which will serve in part as a sponsoring company for the upcoming Rocky Linux distribution," Ars Technica reports: Kurtzer co.....»»
Rocky Linux gets a new sponsor—Gregory Kurtzer’s startup, Ctrl IQ
Money can't buy you love—but it can sponsor a new Linux distro. Enlarge / Ctrl IQ provided us with this diagram of its proposed technology stack. (Thankfully, spelling correction is not one of the core services Ctrl IQ offers.) (credit: Ctrl I.....»»
Rocky Linux gets a parent company, with $4m Series A funding
Money can't buy you love—but it can certainly help you start a new Linux distro. Enlarge / Ctrl IQ provided us with this diagram of its proposed technology stack. (Thankfully, spelling correction is not one of the core services Ctrl IQ offers......»»
10-year-old Sudo Bug Lets Linux Users Gain Root-Level Access
A major vulnerability impacting a large chunk of the Linux ecosystem has been patched today in Sudo, an app that allows admins to delegate limited root access to other users. From a report: The vulnerability, which received a CVE identifier of CVE-20.....»»
Why Red Hat killed CentOS—a CentOS board member speaks
"The CentOS Board doesn't get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do." Enlarge / CentOS Linux will be sleeping with the fishes in 2022. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) This morning, The Register's Tim Anderson published excerpts of.....»»
On the death of CentOS: Red Hat Liaison Brian Exelbierd speaks
"The CentOS Board doesn't get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do." Enlarge / CentOS Linux will be sleeping with the fishes in 2022. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) This morning, The Register's Tim Anderson published excerpts of.....»»
Someone ported Linux to the new Arm-based Mac Mini
Apple has not made dual-booting easy on its newest Arm-based computers. While there are Linux distros designed to run on Arm hardware, Apple silicon is a different breed. However, Security researchers at Corellium have a working Linux port for Apple'.....»»
Ubuntu Linux is now running on M1 Macs
We still have a way to go before easily dual-booting Linux and macOS. The 2020, M1-equipped Mac mini. [credit: Samuel Axon ].....»»
CentOS Is Gone -- But RHEL Is Now Free For Up To 16 Production Servers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last month, Red Hat caused a lot of consternation in the enthusiast and small business Linux world when it announced the discontinuation of CentOS Linux. Long-standing tradition -- and ambiguity.....»»
Innovative gene stacks enhance wheat rust resistance
John Innes Centre researchers have helped in the development of pioneering gene stacking techniques to combat the growing threat of wheat rust......»»