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2 months ago | 
lwn.net | Daroc Alden
Benefits for LWN subscribersThe primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us publishing, but, beyond that, subscribers get immediate access to all site content and access to a number of extra site features. Please sign up today! By Daroc AldenJanuary 13, 2025 Chimera Linux is a new distributiondesigned to be "simple, transparent, and easy to pick up". Thedistribution is built from scratch, andrecently announced its first beta release.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
lwn.net | Daroc Alden
Please consider subscribing to LWNSubscriptions are the lifeblood of LWN.net. If you appreciate thiscontent and would like to see more of it, your subscription willhelp to ensure that LWN continues to thrive. Please visitthis page to join up and keep LWN onthe net. By Daroc AldenNovember 13, 2024 Note: This topic was chosen based on the technical merit of theproject before we were aware of its author's political views andcontroversies.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
lwn.net | Daroc Alden
Ready to give LWN a try? With a subscription to LWN, you can stay current with what is happening in the Linux and free-software community and take advantage of subscriber-only site features. We are pleased to offer you a free trial subscription, no credit card required, so that you can see for yourself.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
lwn.net | Daroc Alden
We're bad at marketingWe can admit it, marketing is not our strong suit. Our strength iswriting the kind of articles that developers, administrators, andfree-software supporters depend on to know what is going on in theLinux world. Please subscribe today to help us keep doing that, and sowe don’t have to get good at marketing. Rust has a plethora of smart-pointer types, including reference-countedpointers, which have special support in the compiler to make themeasier to use.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
lwn.net | Daroc Alden
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
lwn.net | Daroc Alden
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
lwn.net | Daroc Alden
Benefits for LWN subscribersThe primary benefit from subscribing to LWN is helping to keep us publishing, but, beyond that, subscribers get immediate access to all site content and access to a number of extra site features. Please sign up today! By Daroc AldenJune 25, 2024 Unison is aMIT-licensed programming language, in development since 2013, thatexplores the ramifications of making code immutable and stored in a database,instead of a set of text files.
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May 8, 2024 | 
lwn.net | Joe Brockmeier |Daroc Alden |Jonathan Corbet |Jake Edge
This edition contains the following feature content: Securing Git repositories with gittuf: a tool to implement and enforce policies on Git repositories. Systemd heads for a big round-number release: version 256 brings a lot of new features. Modernizing accessibility for desktop Linux: a conference session on work to make our systems more widely usable. Inheritable credentials for directory file descriptors: a proposal for a new kernel-level sandboxing feature.
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May 7, 2024 | 
lwn.net | Daroc Alden
podman uses the newuidmap/newgidmap commands to get access to a range of subuids. There are cases where this is close enough to "unprivileged," because those commands can come from the OS and have a pretty stable/minimal interface, and an unprivileged user can install whatever version of podman they like via whatever means (e.g. building from source) and it will work with the existing newuidmap/newgidmap binaries - nothing in podman itself needs to be setuid.
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May 1, 2024 | 
lwn.net | Joe Brockmeier |Daroc Alden |Jonathan Corbet
This edition contains the following feature content: A look at Ubuntu Desktop LTS 24.04: the new long-term release of the Ubuntu distribution brings some nice features but also a few rough edges. A leadership crisis in the Nix community: unhappiness over the Nix project's direction boils over. Security patterns and anti-patterns in embedded development: an Open Source Summit session on how to create more-secure embedded systems.
