Report: Linux security must be upgraded to protect future tech

The summit was used to expose a number of flaws in Linux's design that make it increasingly unsuitable to power modern devices. Linux is the operating system that runs most of the modern world. It is behind everything from web servers and supercomputers to mobile phones. Increasingly, it's also being used to run connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including products like cars and intelligent robots.

security things in Linux v4.6

Hector Marco-Gisbert removed a long-standing limitation to mmap ASLR on 32-bit x86, where setting an unlimited stack (e.g. “ulimit -s unlimited“) would turn off mmap ASLR (which provided a way to bypass ASLR when executing setuid processes). Given that ASLR entropy can now be controlled directly (see the v4.5 post), and that the cases where this created an actual problem are very rare, means that if a system sees collisions between unlimited stack and mmap ASLR, they can just adjust the 32-bit ASLR entropy instead.

Raspberry Pi launches new PIXEL desktop environment

Raspberry Pi Launches New PIXEL User Interface For Desktops

Raspberry Pi Adds Beautiful "Pixel" Desktop Environment To Raspbian Linux Distro

Meet Pixel, a gorgeous, much-needed visual overhaul for Raspberry Pi's main distro

Raspberry Pi's most popular operating system gets a visual overhaul

The New Raspberry Pi OS Is Here, And It Looks Great

Raspberry Pi gets its own official desktop environment: PIXEL

50 Great Raspberry Pi Projects In Latest Mag Pi Magazine

Raspberry Pi gets VNC remote access bundle with Raspbian

Raspbian PIXEL offers major UX overhaul for Raspberry Pi owners

Raspberry Pi Pixel: Desktop Operating System Environment Built on Debian

Raspberry Pi Gets 'More Visually Appealing' Pixel Desktop OS

Raspberry Pi operating system gets a visual upgrade with the launch of PIXEL

Trainline creates open source platform to help developers deploy apps and environments in AWS

The Trainline, the independent rail ticket retailer, has created an open sourced standardised way for its developers to deploy and manage individual applications and environments in Amazon Web Services' public cloud. The company has 150 staff in its development area, who focus on improving user experience, and in order to ensure that its underlying infrastructure wasn't a constraint on time to market, the firm recently migrated all of its development, staging, UAT and production environments from a legacy private data centre to Amazon's public cloud.

Trainline creates open source platform to let developers test apps in AWS

Linux Unable To Boot Lenovo Yoga 900 & 900; Is Microsoft At Fault?

The popular device developer Lenovo has verified the claims that Lenovo Yoga 900 and 900s unable to boot Linux OS but only Microsoft Windows 10. The new Lenovo convertible laptop, Lenovo Yoga 900 and 900s, would reject and decline any attempt to install Linux operating system, making users turn their heads to Microsoft as the suspect for this issue. [...] This issue about the OS started when an identity of BaronHK posted on Reddit about installing Linux on the latest Lenovo Yoga book in which BaronHK encountered being blocked by a locked solid state drive (SSD) which Linux cannot define itself, and come up to link the issue to Microsoft.

How Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 Performance Compares To Some Other Linux Distros

The final Ubuntu 16.10 Beta for "Yakkety Yak" was released this week and we found its performance doesn't differ much from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (with the exception of the newer graphics stack) while here are some results comparing it to other modern Linux distributions. Tested for this quick, one-page-article comparison were Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2, Clear Linux 10660, Fedora 24, openSUSE Tumbleweed 20160927, and the Arch-based Antergos 16.9-Rolling release.

Qt 3D WIP branches

New Qt 3D Functionality Is Being Worked On

Sean Harmer of KDAB is organizing work around some upcoming "major Qt 3D features" for the open-source toolkit. It's not known if the next round of Qt 3D features will be ready for the Qt 5.9 tool-kit release, but KDAB is looking to have these new branches for feature work with continuous integration coverage.

Cross-compiling WebKit2GTK+ for ARM

Of course, I know for a fact that many people use local recipes to cross-compile WebKit2GTK+ for ARM (or simply build in the target machine, which usually takes a looong time), but those are usually ad-hoc things and hard to reproduce environments locally (or at least hard for me) and, even worse, often bound to downstream projects, so I thought it would be nice to try to have something tested with upstream WebKit2GTK+ and publish it on trac.webkit.org,

Should we drop Vala?

Is it Vala development a waste of time? Is Vala suitable for long term support libraries?

SUSECON 2016: Where Technology Reigns Supreme [Ed: “Article Sponsor: SUSE”]

openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the Weeks 2016/39

Free software activities in September 2016