Wheeler: Funded open source security work at the Linux Foundation

[Posted August 11, 2021 by corbet]

David A. Wheeler lists some of the security-related projects he is overseeing at the Linux Foundation. For example:

Ariadne Conill is improving Alpine Linux security, including significant improvements to its vulnerability processing and making it reproducible. For example, as noted in the July 2021 report, this resulted in Alpine 3.14 being released with the lowest open vulnerability count in the final release in a long time. Alpine Linux’s security is important because many containers use it.

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Wheeler: Funded open source security work at the Linux Foundation

Posted Aug 13, 2021 14:10 UTC (Fri) by flussence (subscriber, #85566) [Link]

Alpine's efforts to completely get rid of sudo seem worth a watch. Seems like a very… OpenBSDish thing to do.

Wheeler: Funded open source security work at the Linux Foundation

Posted Aug 13, 2021 14:53 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

> Alpine's efforts to completely get rid of sudo seem worth a watch. Seems like a very… OpenBSDish thing to do.

They are planning to replace sudo with doas which originated in OpenBSD.