Category: News

The story behind Google’s in-house desktop Linux

Posted on by Michael G
If you look around Google’s Mountain View, CA offices, you’ll see Windows machines, Chromebooks, Macs — and gLinux desktops. G what, you ask? Well, in addition to  relying on Linux for its servers, Google has its very own Linux desktop distribution. You can’t get it — darn it! — but for more than a decade, Google has been baking and eating its own homemade Linux desktop distribution. The first version was Goobuntu. It’s not news that Google has it’s own in-house desktop Linux distribution, but this article provides some interesting insights into some of its unique aspects. The latest versions now use a rolling release model based on Debian, with a custom automated package building and testing tool on top, developed by Google. I’d love to see it in action and have it released to the public.

Please join us for the Moodle Academy webinar “ Assessment: Exploring Glossaries” on 3rd August 12:00 – 13:00 UTC

Posted on by Michael G
by Mary Cooch.  

Please join us for the Moodle Academy webinar “ Assessment: Exploring Glossaries”  on 3rd August 12:00 – 13:00 UTC.

In this webinar you will learn how to use the  Moodle Glossary activity for formative and summative assessment.

This webinar is part of the course ‘Assessment: Exploring Glossaries’ and is for educators interested in exploring assessment opportunities with Moodle.

Register at Moodle Academy

Please join us for the Moodle Academy webinar “ Assessment: Exploring Glossaries” on 3rd August 12:00 - 13:00 UTC

Acquia Developer Portal Blog: Evaluating Drupal Community Modules

Posted on by Michael G
Evaluating Drupal Community Modules

When looking to use a module from the Drupal community there are a number of factors to consider, beyond its functional use, that determine suitable quality and support for your organisation to use.

When you deploy a Drupal site into production, who is responsible for maintaining it? How long will that site live for? These types of questions shape the risk tolerances of the project. E.g. Lower Drupal competencies means you need greater community support and more stable modules.

All modules on Drupal.org are open source and fall under the GPLv2 open source license. They are free to download and use at your own risk. Each project has its own set of maintainers and a sub-community that uses the module, interacts through issues and contributes bug fixes and feature enhancements.

Even more randomness

Posted on by Michael G

Damien Miller (djm@)
committed a change
randomising the rekeying interval in
arc4random(3)
(and friends):

CVSROOT:	/cvs
Module name:	src
Changes by:	djm@cvs.openbsd.org	2022/07/30 23:10:36

Modified files:
	lib/libc/crypt : arc4random.c 

Log message:
Randomise the rekey interval a little. Previously, the chacha20
instance would be rekeyed every 1.6MB. This makes it happen at a
random point somewhere in the 1-2MB range.

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Peoples BLOG: Usage of Constraints (Validations) on Media Entities in Drupal Application

Posted on by Michael G
In this article we are going to see how drupal developers can use the Drupal Constraints to Validate the Media entities. Basically Drupal provides Constraints to do the Validations on the Entities, where Drupal uses the Symfony’s validator and extends with Symfony’s Typed Data API for validating specific Entity field definitions. These constraint validators can be used in different w

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 29 July 2022

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Farewell, July –we’re wrapping
up the month with another great week. Here are the latest updates on
the Apache community’s activities:

ApacheCon™ – the ASF’s official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow’s Technology Today since 1998.

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws.

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.

  • 7M+
    weekly checks yield uptime at 100.00%. Performance checks across 50
    different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data
    centers around the world. View the     ASF’s Infrastructure Uptime site to see the most recent averages.

Apache Code Snapshot
– Over the past week, 274 Apache Committers and 819 contributors
changed 2,862,825 lines of code over 3,389 commits. Top five
contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Gary Gregory, Claus
Ibsen, Robbie Gemmell, and Dan Haywood.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Attic – provides process and solutions when an Apache project has reached its end of life.

APIs–

Big Data–

  • Apache Calcite Avatica 1.22.0 released
    • CVE-2022-36364: Avatica JDBC driver httpclient_impl connection property can be used as an RCE vector

Content –

Identity Management –

Libraries–

Network Client –

Programming Languages –

RPC –

Search –

Servers–

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