Eric Brown | February 27, 2019 tux-doll.480_pm.jpg Check out recent highlights in the world of embedded Linux software, including news from Google, The Linux Foundation, Wind River, and more. Creative Commons Zero Embedded Linux Software Highlights from Embedded World In my day job at LinuxGizmos, I’ve been neck deep recently in embedded Linux hardware news from the Embedded World show in Nuremberg. There are plenty of new SBCs and compute modules -- many based on NXP’s newly shipping i.MX8M Mini -- as well as a new Qualcomm Robotics RB3 Platform, more IoT...

The New Stack | February 27, 2019 Kubernetes Warms Up to IPv6 There’s a finite number of public IPv4 addresses and the IPv6 address space was specified to solve this problem some 20 years ago, long before Kubernetes was conceived of. But because it was originally developed inside Google and it’s only relatively recently that cloud services like Google and AWS...

Data Center Knowledge | February 27, 2019 New Elisa Project Focuses on Linux In Safety-Critical Systems The project is called Elisa, for "Enabling Linux in Safety Applications," and it's aim is to create a shared set of tools and processes for building Linux-based systems that will operate without surprises in situations where failure could cause injury, loss of life, or result in significant...

ZDNet | February 27, 2019 MariaDB Readies New Enterprise Server MariaDB Corp announced it's releasing a new version of its MariaDB, MySQL-compatible database management system (DBMS), MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.4. This new business server comes with more powerful and fine-grained auditing, faster, highly reliable backups for large databases, and end-to-end...

The New Stack | February 26, 2019 Open Source Maintainers Want to Reduce Application Security Risk According to Snyk’s “State of Open Source Security Report 2019,” which surveyed over 500 open source users and maintainers, 30 percent of developers that maintain open source (OS) projects are highly confident in their security knowledge, which is up from 17 percent the year before. In addition,...

Network World | February 26, 2019 Linux Security: Cmd Provides Visibility, Control Over User Activity There's a new Linux security tool you should be aware of — Cmd (pronounced "see em dee") dramatically modifies the kind of control that can be exercised over Linux users. It reaches way beyond the traditional configuration of user privileges and takes an active role in monitoring and controlling...

LKML | February 25, 2019 Linux 5.0-rc8 This may be totally unnecessary, but we actually had more patches come in this last week than we had for rc7, which just didn't make me feel the warm and fuzzies. And while none of the patches looked all that scary, some of them were to pretty core files, so it wasn't all just random rare drivers (...

O'Reilly | February 25, 2019 Core Technologies and Tools for AI, Big Data, and Cloud Computing In this post, I’ll describe some of the core technologies and tools companies are beginning to evaluate and build. Many companies are just beginning to address the interplay between their suite of AI, big data, and cloud technologies. I’ll also highlight some interesting uses cases and applications...

Dev.to | February 25, 2019 Happy Little Accidents - Debugging JavaScript Last year I gave a talk in HelsinkiJS and Turku ❤️ Frontend meetups titled Happy Little Accidents - The Art of Debugging (slides). This week I was spending a lot of time debugging weird timezone issues and the talk popped back up from my memories. So I wanted to write a more detailed and Javascript...