Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 4, 2024
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Debian debate over tag2upload reaches compromise: a long discussion — even by Debian standards — on a new mechanism for developers to upload packages makes some progress.
- Python grapples with Apple App Store rejections: getting Python apps into Apple's store requires some compromises.
- PostmarketOS: Linux for phones and more: a distribution to keep older mobile devices running usefully.
- Direct-to-device networking: getting the CPU out of the loop when the data is just passing through.
- Arithmetic overflow mitigation in the kernel: ongoing work to harden the kernel against classes of bugs runs into some resistance.
- Eliminating indirect calls for security modules: a patch series to make security modules both faster and more secure.
- Mount notifications: an LSFMM+BPF discussion on how to best inform user space of mount events.
- Redox: An operating system in Rust: a microkernel system built from scratch.
- FreeDOS turns 30: three decades of work to emulate the DOS operating system.
- Mourning Daniel Bristot de Oliveira: the kernel community loses another developer.
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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