Understanding the Cyber Resilience Act: What Everyone involved in Open Source Development Should Know

September 9, 2023 by Michael G

The European Union is making big changes to cybersecurity requirements with its proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). You may have heard about the CRA’s potential impact on the open source ecosystem. But what does the Cyber Resilience Act mean for you? This post is an introduction to the Act and explains how it may affect the open source maintainers and developer community. Note that this post is based on a draft of the CRA from September 15, 2022. The Act is still in a draft stage and getting feedback, and its provisions may differ before it is passed into law.

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September 9, 2023 by Michael G

New committer: Joel Bodenmann (ports)

Advancing the future of the internet with new ways of defining our shared digital realities

September 9, 2023 by Michael G

More than ever, we need a movement to ensure the internet remains a force for good. The Mozilla Internet Ecosystem (MIECO) program fuels this movement by supporting people who are looking to advance a more human-centered internet. This week we’re highlighting Yoshiki Ohshima, a computer scientist and researcher with big ideas for how to shift […]

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gnuboot @ Savannah: Testers needed for GNU Boot 0.1 RC1

September 9, 2023 by Michael G

Hi,

GNU Boot has published its first release candidate, and we need help

for testing, at first from people who are able to recover from

computers that don’t boot anymore.

This is because, while we have very minimal changes on top of the code

used by the last Libreboot release that didn’t contain nonfree

software, we didn’t test all the images ourselves yet, so there is still

risks of ending up with computers that don’t boot anymore.

If the code works fine, we will most likely be able to release it as-is

but we (the current maintainers) still have a lot of work to do before

the release.

For instance we still need to integrate the code from the website, find

good ways to deploy it, make sure that the installation documentation

works (for instance by asking for help from testers and fixing it), etc.

As for accepting patches, we’re not ready yet to do that yet, but we

plan to have that done for the first release, or before that depending

on how things work.

For reporting what images work, you can reply to this mail (or open a

bug report).

The GNU Boot maintainers.

The rxv64 operating system

September 9, 2023 by Michael G

What, you thought we were done with the operating systems written in Rust? Oh sweet summer child. rxv64 is a pedagogical operating system written in Rust that targets multiprocessor x86_64 machines. It is a reimplementation of the xv6 operating system from MIT. As a pedagogical system, it supports very little hardware other than the text-mode CGA device, serial port, PS/2 keyboard controller, and PCIe AHCI SATA storage devices. xv6, in turn, is a reimplementation of Sixth Edition UNIX in C for x86 and RISC-V, widely used in teaching operating systems courses at various universities.