Debian at Montreal, Kernel Event (Linux Plumbers Conference), and Latest in Linux 4.19
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Montreal's Debian & Stuff - August 2018
Summer is slowly coming to an end in Montreal and as much as I would like it to last another month, I'm also glad to fall back into my regular routine.
Part of that routine means the return of Montreal's Debian & Stuff - our informal gathering of the local Debian community!
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Testing & Fuzzing Microconference Accepted into 2018 Linux Plumbers Conference
Testing, fuzzing, and other diagnostics have greatly increased the robustness of the Linux ecosystem, but embarrassing bugs still escape to end users. Furthermore, a million-year bug would happen several tens of times per day across Linux's installed base (said to number more than 20 billion), so the best we can possibly do is hardly good enough.
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Linux 4.19 Is Finally Offering An In-Kernel GPS Subsystem
The Linux 4.19 kernel will finally be introducing a GPS subsystem to hopefully better standardize a lot of the Linux GPS drivers that have been out there for years out-of-tree.
The GNSS subsystem (Global Navigation Satellite System, i.e. GPS) provides initial support for receivers. This subsystem abstracts the underlying interfaces of the devices and provides a new class type that exposes a character device to user-space for reading these GNSS receivers. The protocol handling and more is left to user-space.
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