Linux Action News 180
The A-Team assembled to make open source more trustworthy, why we might be about to find out how much SUSE is worth, and some essential project updates.
March 14, 202124m 1sbonus
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The A-Team assembled to make open source more trustworthy, why we might be about to find out how much SUSE is worth, and some essential project updates.
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Links:
- Linux Foundation serves up free code-signing service — The Linux Foundation, with the support of Google, Red Hat, and Purdue University, is launching a service called sigstore to help developers sign the code they release.
- Linux Foundation announces new open-source software signing service
- Introducing sigstore — Installing most open source software today is equivalent to picking up a random thumb-drive off the sidewalk and plugging it into your machine.
- rekor: Signature Transparency Log — Rekor's goals are to provide an immutable tamper resistant ledger of metadata generated within a software projects supply chain.
- Fulcio: SigStore WebPKI — fulcio is a free Root-CA for code signing certs - issuing certificates based on an OIDC email address.
- cosign: Container Signing — Container Signing, Verification and Storage in an OCI registry.
- Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer
- German software company SUSE targets pre-summer IPO — SUSE is targeting a pre-summer initial public offering in a deal that may value the private equity-backed company with German roots at 7-8 billion euros ($8.3-9.5 billion), people close to the matter said.
- SUSE prepares for multi-billion Euro IPO
- VirtIO Sound Driver Coming — The virtual sound driver for VirtIO has been queued up into the sound-next code ahead of the Linux 5.13 merge window this spring.
- GNOME 40 Introducing Virtual Monitors — This headless native back-end that was merged today into GNOME 40's Mutter allows for running the native back-end atop a render node in a headless configuration without a physical display attached.
- GRUB 2.06 Release Candidate Available For Testing — Among the changes coming with GRUB 2.06 are expanded Btrfs RAID support, LUKS2 encrypted disk support, the BootHole patches and other security work,
- Progress Report Asahi Linux — To adapt the Apple world into a devicetree world, we are developing m1n1.
- Current status of the Corellium team's effort — Wifi now works on Linux on the M1.
Topics
Linux News PodcastLinux Action Newsrekorfulciocosignsigstoresigning serviceSupply Chain AttackSignature Transparency LogWebPKIsoftware supply chainsecurityLinux FoundationPurdue GoogleNPMnodejsPythonLet's EncryptTumbleweedSUSE IPORancher LabsEQTKubernetesCloudVirtio Sound DriverKVMparavirtualized driverslinux audiovirtual machinesGNOME 40 Virtual MonitorsGRUB 2.06bootloaderBootHoleAsahi Linuxm1n1U-BootDeviceTreeCorelliumApple M1Linux on M1