Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 7, 2019
- Digging for license information with FOSSology: an update on this venerable compliance tool.
- Filesystem sandboxing with eBPF: a stacking filesystem allowing unprivileged users to set access policies.
- Next steps for kernel workflow improvement: a report from a meeting held at OSS Europe.
- Identifying buggy patches with machine learning: AI technology has been used to find important kernel fixes; now can it be used to avoid the need for those fixes in the first place?
- Generalizing address-space isolation: separating address spaces in the kernel can increase security, but there is a cost.
This week's edition also includes these inner pages:
- Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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