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Linux Security Feature Revised For Randomizing The Kernel Stack Offset At Each System Call

Phoronix - Wed, 04/08/2020 - 23:02
Patches have been revised for allowing Linux to support kernel stack base address offset randomization for each system call...

Eclipse's Theia released, missing KubeCon, and more industry trends

opensource.com - Wed, 04/08/2020 - 21:47

As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.


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New Qt Releases Might Now Be Restricted To Paying Customers For 12 Months

Phoronix - Wed, 04/08/2020 - 19:53
With an apparent blame on the novel coronavirus, The Qt Company is said to be considering restricting new Qt releases to paying customers for a period of twelve months in an effort to boost their near-term finances...

Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Should Trip Less Often On Some GPUs With Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Wed, 04/08/2020 - 19:17
Last week there were a bunch of new improvements and features for the open-source kernel graphics/display drivers merged for Linux 5.7. There were not any feature changes on the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver front while this week at least are some fixes/workarounds so it's less buggy for some hardware...

OverlayFS Can Be Paired With VirtIO-FS On Linux 5.7

Phoronix - Wed, 04/08/2020 - 19:00
The OverlayFS union mount file-system has a number of fixes and other changes with Linux 5.7...

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