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All of the content published on these feeds is property of LWN.net (Copyright 2024, Eklektix, Inc.). All of the data used to build the feeds is publicly available. I do not own a premium account, thus I cannot publish anything that isn't public on the website. If you enjoy the free content on LWN, please consider becoming a member there.
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<title>LWN.net</title>
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<description> LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
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<title>Seven more stable kernel updates</title>
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<dc:creator>daroc</dc:creator>
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<description><p>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman has shared another seven stable kernel updates:
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/997527/">6.6.60</a>,
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/997528/">6.11.7</a>,
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/997529/">6.1.116</a>,
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/997530/">5.15.171</a>,
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/997533/">5.10.229</a>,
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/997535/">5.4.285</a>, and
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<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/997536/">4.19.323</a>.
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<title>Cohen: gccrs: An alternative compiler for Rust</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997483/</link>
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<dc:creator>corbet</dc:creator>
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<description>Arthur Cohen has posted <a
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href="https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/11/07/gccrs-an-alternative-compiler-for-rust.html">a
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detailed introduction to the gccrs project</a> on the Rust Blog, seemingly
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project.
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Likewise, many GCC plugins are used for increasing the safety of
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critical projects such as the Linux kernel, which has recently
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gained support for the Rust programming language. This makes
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<tt>gccrs</tt> a useful tool for analyzing unsafe Rust code, and
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more generally Rust code which has to interact with existing C
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code. We also want <tt>gccrs</tt> to be a useful tool for
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<tt>rustc</tt> itself by helping pan out the Rust specification
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effort with a unique viewpoint - that of a tool trying to replicate
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another's functionality, oftentimes through careful experimentation
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and source reading where the existing documentation did not go into
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(LWN last <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/991199/">looked at gccrs</a> in October).</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Security updates for Friday</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997480/</link>
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<guid>https://lwn.net/Articles/997480/</guid>
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<dc:creator>daroc</dc:creator>
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<description>Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (edk2), <b>Debian</b> (webkit2gtk), <b>Fedora</b> (thunderbird), <b>Oracle</b> (bzip2, container-tools:ol8, edk2, go-toolset:ol8, libtiff, python-idna, python3.11, and python3.12), <b>Slackware</b> (expat), and <b>SUSE</b> (apache2, govulncheck-vulndb, grub2, java-1_8_0-openjdk, python3, python39, qemu, xorg-x11-server, and xwayland).
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 14:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Security updates for Thursday</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997378/</link>
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<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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<description>Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (bcc, bpftrace, bzip2, container-tools:rhel8, grafana-pcp, haproxy, kernel, kernel-rt, krb5, libtiff, python-gevent, python3.11, python3.11-urllib3, python3.12, python3.12-urllib3, xmlrpc-c, and xorg-x11-server and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), <b>Debian</b> (puma and pypy3), <b>Fedora</b> (firefox), <b>Gentoo</b> (libgit2), <b>Mageia</b> (libarchive), <b>SUSE</b> (ghostscript, go1.22-openssl, go1.23-openssl, htmldoc, kmail-account-wizard, libarchive, libgsf, libmozjs-128-0, openssl-3, python-jupyterlab, python-mysql-connector-python, python36, and ruby2.1), and <b>Ubuntu</b> (cinder, linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-6.8, linux-aws, linux-azure-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency).
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<title>Funding restored for man-page maintenance</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997193/</link>
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<dc:creator>corbet</dc:creator>
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<description>Man pages maintainer Alejandro Colomar <a
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href="https://lwn.net/Articles/989215/">announced</a> in September that he was suspending
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his work due to a lack of support. He has now <a
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href="https://lwn.net/ml/all/nimzecx26lzxo2v64qjazmisbwfeljpto522wlnauktqesmdoc@gv3yrp64cvug">let
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it be known</a> that funding has been found for the next year at least:
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We've been talking for a couple of months, and we have already
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agreed to sign a contract through the LF [Linux Foundation], where
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a number of companies provide the funds for the contract. The
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contract will cover the next 12 months for the agreed amount, and
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we should sign it in the following days. Since I've already seen a
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draft of the contract, and it looks good, I've already started
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maintaining the project again, starting on Nov 1st.
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Security updates for Wednesday</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997182/</link>
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<dc:creator>jzb</dc:creator>
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<description>Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (libtiff), <b>Debian</b> (context, libheif, and thunderbird), <b>Fedora</b> (php-tcpdf, syncthing, and thunderbird), <b>Gentoo</b> (EditorConfig core C library, Flatpak, Neat VNC, and Ubiquiti UniFi), <b>Oracle</b> (bcc, bpftrace, grafana-pcp, haproxy, kernel, krb5, libtiff, python-gevent, python3.11-urllib3, python3.12-urllib3, and xmlrpc-c), <b>Red Hat</b> (python3.11-urllib3), <b>SUSE</b> (audacity, curl, govulncheck-vulndb, gradle, htmldoc, libgsf, python310, and qbittorrent), and <b>Ubuntu</b> (linux-aws-5.4, linux-oracle-5.4, mpg123, and python-werkzeug).
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<title>LXQt 2.1.0 released</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997034/</link>
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<description><p><a
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<p>Through its new component <tt>lxqt-wayland-session</tt>, LXQt 2.1.0
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>The BPF instruction set architecture is now RFC 9669</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/997002/</link>
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<description>After a couple of years of effort, the BPF instruction set architecture has
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9669</a>, giving it a standard outside of the in-kernel implementation. <a
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<description>Security updates have been issued by <b>AlmaLinux</b> (firefox, openexr, and thunderbird), <b>Fedora</b> (llama-cpp and python-quart), <b>Oracle</b> (firefox, openexr, thunderbird, and xorg-x11-server and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), <b>SUSE</b> (chromium, govulncheck-vulndb, openssl-1_1, python311, and python312), and <b>Ubuntu</b> (linux-azure, linux-bluefield, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-ibm, openjpeg2, and ruby3.0, ruby3.2, ruby3.3).
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Han Shen described the kernel-optimization techniques that Google uses in the <a
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Plumbers Conference</a>.
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feedback-directed optimization</a> (AutoFDO), which can be used with the <a
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href="https://research.google/pubs/propeller-a-profile-guided-relinking-optimizer-for-warehouse-scale-applications/">Propeller</a>
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optimizer to produce kernels with better performance using profile
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href="https://opensource.org/ai">Open Source AI</a>&mdash;that is what
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shared for any purpose&mdash;for almost two
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href="https://opensource.org/about/board-of-directors">board</a> will
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or respecting the original <a href="https://opensource.org/osd">Open Source
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/993828/</link>
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<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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<description>A pair of talks in the <a
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href="https://lpc.events/event/18/sessions/180/#20240918">toolchains
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track</a> at the <a
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href="https://lpc.events/event/18/page/224-lpc-2024-overview">2024 Linux
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Plumbers Conference</a> covered different tools that can be used to
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optimize the kernel. First up was Maksim Panchenko to describe the <a
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href="https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/bolt#bolt">binary
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optimization and layout tool</a> (BOLT) that Meta uses on its production
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kernels. It optimizes the kernel binary by rearranging it to improve its
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code locality for
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better performance. A <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/995397/">subsequent article</a> will cover the second talk, which
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looked at <a
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href="https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/45290.pdf">automatic
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feedback-directed optimization</a> (AutoFDO) and other related techniques
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that are used to optimize Google's kernels.
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<pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>realloc() and the oversize importance of zero-size objects</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/995196/</link>
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<guid>https://lwn.net/Articles/995196/</guid>
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<dc:creator>corbet</dc:creator>
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<description>Small objects can lead to large email threads. In this
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case, the GNU C Library (glibc) community has been having an extensive
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debate over the handling of zero-byte allocations. Specifically, what
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should happen when a program calls <a
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href="https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/malloc.3.html"><tt>realloc()</tt></a>
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specifying a size of zero? This is, it seems, a topic about which some
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people, at least, have strong feelings.
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</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 24, 2024</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/994575/</link>
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<guid>https://lwn.net/Articles/994575/</guid>
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<dc:creator>corbet</dc:creator>
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<description>The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 24, 2024 is available.
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</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Toward safe transmutation in Rust</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/994334/</link>
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<guid>https://lwn.net/Articles/994334/</guid>
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<dc:creator>daroc</dc:creator>
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<description><p>
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Currently in Rust, there is no efficient and safe way to turn an array of bytes
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into a structure that corresponds to the array. Changing that was the topic of
|
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Jack Wrenn's talk this year at
|
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<a href="https://rustconf.com">
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RustConf</a>:
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<a href="https://jack.wrenn.fyi/blog/safety-goggles-for-alchemists/">
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"Safety Goggles for Alchemists"</a>. The goal is to be able to "transmute" —
|
|
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Rust's name for this kind of conversion — values into arbitrary user-defined
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types in a safer way. Wrenn justified the approach that the project has taken to
|
|
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accomplish this, and spoke about the future work required to stabilize it.
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</p>
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</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>Free-software foundations face fundraising problems</title>
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<link>https://lwn.net/Articles/993665/</link>
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<guid>https://lwn.net/Articles/993665/</guid>
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<dc:creator>jzb</dc:creator>
|
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<description><p>In July, at the GNOME <a
|
|
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href="https://lwn.net/Articles/983203/">annual general meeting</a> (AGM),
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|
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held at <a
|
|
||||||
href="https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/12/20/guadec-2024-in-denver-colorado/">GUADEC
|
|
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2024</a>,
|
|
||||||
the message from the GNOME Foundation board was that all was well,
|
|
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financially speaking. Not <em>great</em>, but the foundation was on a
|
|
||||||
break-even budget and expected to go into its next fiscal year with a
|
|
||||||
similar budget and headcount. On October&nbsp;7, however, the board <a
|
|
||||||
href="https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/10/07/update-from-the-board-2024-10/">announced</a>
|
|
||||||
that it had had to make some cuts, including reducing its staff by
|
|
||||||
two people. This is not, however, strictly a GNOME problem: similar
|
|
||||||
organizations, such as the Python Software Foundation (PSF), KDE&nbsp;e.V.,
|
|
||||||
and the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) are seeing declines in
|
|
||||||
fundraising while also being affected by inflation.</p>
|
|
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</description>
|
|
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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