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Microsoft Has Now Its Own Linux Distribution Builder, CBL-Mariner
CBL-Mariner is Microsoft's internal tool to create Linux distributions. Meant to power Microsoft's own Cloud infrastructure, CBL-Mariner distributions aim to consume limited disk and memory resources, as well as offer minimal attack surface.
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Microsoft at Work to Bring eBPF to Windows
Microsoft has announced it is working on bringing eBPF to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 and later to support use cases such as denial-of-service protection and observability.
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Using Rust to Write Safe and Correct Linux Kernel Drivers
As part of the Rust for Linux project, aimed to make it possible to use Rust for Linux driver development, the Android team at Google is working on evaluating the benefits that using Rust would bring.
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How Rocky Linux Aims to Fill the Gap Left by Red Hat’s CentOS Setback
Gregory Kurtzer, founder of CentOS, started the Rocky Linux project in Dec 2020 to fill the gap created by RedHat when they changed direction for CentOS Linux. This shift, from a stable operating system to a stream for testing pre-release code, left many organizations without a Linux distribution that suits their needs. InfoQ interviewed Kurtzer about the goals for the project going forward.
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Analyzing Git Clone Vulnerability
A new Git version, 2.30.2, fixes a security vulnerability in Git large file storage (LFS) and other clean/smudge filters affecting Git 2.15 and newer. An analysis.
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Flutter 2 is Production-Ready for the Web, Adds New Platforms
A major update to Google's cross-platform UI Toolkit, Flutter 2 stabilizes Web support and adds new platforms, including foldable, embedded, and desktop. Alongside it, new Dart 2.12 brings null safety and Dart FFI.
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Diablo IV: Debugging Linux in Visual Studio
Blizzard's Diablo IV team has published a blog about how they leverage Visual Studio and WSL to debug Linux core dumps on their Windows environments.
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Microsoft Announces Azure IoT Edge Modules for Linux on Windows in Public Preview
Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows, also known as EFLOW. With EFLOW, customers run production Linux-based cloud-native workloads on Windows IoT.
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Rust 1.49 Released with Tier-1 Support of 64-Bit ARM Linux
The Rust team released on the eve of last year Rust 1.49. The new version of Rust features 64-bit ARM support and minor language enhancements.
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Qt 6 Improves QML, Adopts C++17, and More
Qt 6 is a new major release of Qt, the free and open-source, cross-platform toolkit for creating GUI apps that powers Linux's KDE desktop environment. While striving to keep full source compatibility, Qt 6 brings many changes, including improved QML, a new graphic architecture, C++17 support, improved tooling, and more.
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Microsoft Edge Made Available on Linux
Microsoft recently announced the availability of the Microsoft Edge Dev Channel for Linux (initial preview release). The Edge browser is now available on all major operating systems, desktop and mobile. Enterprise developers, many of which use Linux, may now build and test web applications in their preferred platform. The move seeks to further position Edge as the browser for business.
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Swift Aims to Become a Data Race-Free Concurrent Language
The Swift team has published its roadmap to improve concurrency support in Swift. In a first phase, Swift will gain the async syntax and actors, while in a second phase focus will be on eliminating data races and deadlocks.
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Ubuntu 20.10 Brings Full Desktop and Micro Clouds to Raspberry Pi 4
Ubuntu Desktop 20.10 is now fully supported on the Raspberry Pi 4, which can be transformed into a complete Ubuntu workstation, says Ubuntu. Ubuntu 20.10 also introduces Micro Clouds for on-demand compute at the edge.
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Apple Open Sources System, Swift Library Interfacing with System-Level API
System is a low-level library Apple introduced at its last WWDC conference to provide an idiomatic and type-safe interface to system calls and currency types usually available at the OS level. In keeping with Apple's aim to push Swift as a cross-platform development ecosystem, System has been open-sourced to make it easier for programmers to contribute to its further development across platforms.
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Q&A with Canonical's Alex Chalkias about Kubernetes 1.19 Enterprise Support and KubeCon
InfoQ caught up with Alex Chalkias, product manager at Canonical at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2020, regarding the enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.19, KubeCon EU 2020, the future of Kubernetes, and how Canonical is enabling its adoption in the enterprise.