Linux Foundation’s Core Infrastructure Initiative Funds Three New Projects
linuxfoundation.orgInteresting choices:
* https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
* https://fuzzing-project.org/
* http://trust-in-soft.com/tis-interpreter
Edit: updated TIS link per the reply.
A better link for tis-interpreter is http://trust-in-soft.com/tis-interpreter/
I was going to advertise it more at some point, but I just announced it here and already we are saturated with new OpenSSL tests that the interpreter cannot digest yet: https://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-dev@openssl.org/msg3930...
My personal trajectory would make no sense if tis-interpreter ended up as an advertisement. It may end up helping convince the general population that it's possible to detect all practical undefined behavior in a useful C program, by giving everyone access to a piece of software that does it along one execution. Then TrustInSoft will only be asking its more dubitative prospects that its other products can do it for all possible input vectors, instead of just one. I'm not even claiming this is an unintended consequence. But tis-interpreter will be a self-contained, useful product for the largest number. You have my word.
Thanks for commenting, and congratulations on the grant. Looking forward to the release.
Different membership levels: https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/Corporate_Membership
I am new so please don't kill me. Would the dream of getting all Linux devs to work on ONE serious Linux distro (to compete with Windows/OSX) ever come true?
The question is a common one, but it's close to Not Even Wrong.
Linux has won everywhere except the desktop, and that's for many reasons - one of which is Windows holding on with a vicelike grip. The first time Windows had actual desktop competition from Linux was 2007, with netbooks - they dropped the price of an XP licence to $5 or even $0 just to keep Linux the hell off the things.
So Linux can do most of the job, and it's other factors keeping it off rather than anything that could be fixed by a concerted developer effort on a single distro.
(Some serious backing to Wine development would possibly be useful here. But again, the forces aren't susceptible to pure development.)
Furthermore:
* there are different distros because people can.
* there are different distros because there are different use cases.
* Red Hat and Ubuntu are already huge and neither is going away any time soon.
Hey david!
What main features would a Linux dev team need to create to seriously compete with Windows? Obviously being able to support Windows/OS X applications is something that would be useful so Wine is great. What other things?
The thing that comes to mind preventing Linux is gaming. It is finally making some ground but Direct X is the leader and plays nicely with Windows.
I'll note, we have a Linux distro that is in fact doing stupendously well and has end-user consumer sales into the billions. It's called Android.
A use case for which it is unambiguously better, basically.
Wine continues to implement more and more of DirectX (cos the guys at Codeweavers are gamers too). Wine is really pretty bloody good these days.
I recall tales of WoW players running it in Wine specifically so people they'd pissed off couldn't h@xx0r them, but I have no idea on numbers.
Wow. Open source projects like that are less expensive to develop, it seems!