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Google Opens Fuchsia to Public Contributions
Four years after open sourcing Fuchsia, its new capability-based operating system aimed at IoT and mobile, Google has announced the project will now accept contributions from the public.
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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability with Improved Update Process
Microsoft announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) will be generally available in Windows 10, version 2004. WSL2 was released into the Insider Program last year. With the move to general availability, WSL2 can now be automatically updated via standard Windows Updates.
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Justin Cormack Explores the Changes, Limitations, and Opportunities within Modern OSs at QCon SF
At QCon San Francisco, Justin Cormack explored “The Operating System in 2018”. The biggest changes in this space include: performance driven improvement, such as eBPF and userspace networking; the changing role of operations, and how operators use and deploy operating systems; and emulation and portability.
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Oracle Makes Major Cuts to Solaris and SPARC Teams
Whilst Oracle has committed to support Solaris until the 2030s, the firm appears to have made substantial cuts to the Solaris and SPARC teams this weekend, potentially signalling a silent end-of-life for both products.
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Memory Issues with Linux Control Groups Might Affect Containerized Applications
LinkedIn’s engineering team recently published an article outlining several memory management problems with cgroups that might lead to performance degradation and possible workarounds for them.
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Google is Working on a New Operating System Called Fuchsia
Google has open sourced the at least some of the bits for a new operating system planned for hardware with fast processors and lots of RAM.
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Details on How Linux Runs Natively on Windows
Microsoft has recently announced the intention to integrate Linux Bash with Windows 10, making it possible to run native Linux ELF64 binaries on their operating system. To avoid incorrect speculation on how this is possible, Deepu Thomas, the Leader of the Windows Subsystem for Linux team, has provided details on how Linux runs on Windows.
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Google’s Sundar Pichai Offers Some Support to Apple on its FBI Encryption Fight
Google has made its first comment on the Apple/FBI encryption fight, with Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai offering Tim Cook some limited support via a series of Tweets:
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Yelp Releases dumb-init, a Minimal init System for Docker Containers
Yelp released a minimal init system for Docker containers called dumb-init which acts as a proxy and performs other init functions by registering signal handlers and forwarding signals to the actual process running in the container.
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ARM Open Sources mbed, an IoT OS
The ARM mbed OS has entered beta and a number of components have been or will be open sourced in the following weeks.
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Android Marshmallow Comes with SDK 6.0 and API 23
Google has unveiled that when it comes to Android, M stands for Marshmallow. They have also introduced Android 6.0 SDK which comes prepackaged with Android Studio or as a separate download that can be used with a different IDE.
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Chrome 44 Beta Brings ES6 Features, Improved Notifications
Google has released Chrome 44 beta: with updates including new ES6 features and improved notification capabilities. The latest beta release for the OS brings computed property names, allowing expression for property names in object literals and class literals.
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CoreOS Launches the CoreOS Enterprise Registry
CoreOS has announced the acquisition of Quay.io and the launch of the CoreOS Enterprise Registry, a private, behind-the-firewall Docker registry, based on Quay.io hosted service.
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Android to Include Ahead-Of-Time Compiler
Google announced the next version of the Android operating system at Google I/O 2014. Code named “L release,” in the most significant change to the system architecture a new runtime simply called the Android RunTime (ART) with an AOT compiler replaces the Dalvik virtual machine and its JIT compiler.
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Mozilla Foundation Announces Firefox OS Contribution Program
In an effort to accelerate the development of Firefox OS, Mozilla announced a Contribution Program which will aim at providing dedicated developers with access to resources and reference hardware. Foxconn will manufacture the initial reference hardware, a tablet. The program will be open to developers, localizers, testers, and bug fixers.