Oct 31, 2019 that project morphed into azure sphere, which microsoft announced in april 2018. The linux foundation hosted the executive director of the freebsd foundation, deb goodkin, at the open source summit in san diego. Both microsoft and the linux kernel teams have added ways to disable support for intel transactional synchronization extensions tsx. I decided to put this theory to the test in my project. Wireguard has now been committed to the mainline linux kernel. When microsoft first introduced wsl in windows 10 in 2016 wsl was. Linus torvalds isnt worried about microsoft taking over linux. Microsofts new windows terminal is now available slashdot. Calculate linux 20, a gentoobased operating system, is ready to be installed on your computer. Lsms are optional addons for the linux kernel that enable additional security features. Internet explorer and windows media player will be among the first apps to be ported.
Windows 10s linux kernel is now available slashdot. Wsl 2 includes a real linux kernel that lets you run more linux software on windows and with better performance than wsl 1. Merkey to pay 50k usd for a bsdlicensed copy of linux, david wheeler does some calculations and comes up with an estimate of 612m usd. These corrections are now in the forthcoming linux 5. No, its part of support for linux subsystem for windows, which lets you run linux programs on windows initially through emulating the linux syscall interface, now through a vm with a real linux kernel.
Instead, the company will deliver it to users machines using windows update. So, linux kernel developer arnd bergmann and others have been working on a repair. The azure sphere os included a microsoft developed custom linux kernel, plus secured application containers. The oldest x86 cpu that the lnux kernel supports today is theoretically the 486. Named integrity policy enforcement or ipe the project is a linux security module lsm. His site describes installing gentoo linux on an ancient ibm ps1 consultant 23 19c released in 1993, with 64mb simm72 ram. The azure sphere os included a microsoftdeveloped custom linux kernel, plus secured application containers. Windows subsystem for linux 2 will include a microsoftwritten linux kernel. You see, the company has partnered with canonical to utilize ubuntu for cloud, network, and enterpr.
I suspect microsoft realized it when checking out windows source. Previously, windows 10 users would have to manually navigate to a unc path to get access to linux files from the windows. Tsx is the intel technology that opens the companys cpus to attacks via the zombieload v2 vulnerability. Unfortunately for some users, the operating system is now 64bit only. Users will be able to manually check for new kernel updates by clicking the check for updates button or by waiting. Band releases album as linux kernel module slashdot. Wheeler has come up with a number of interesting softwareworth estimates a. How a researcher hacked his own computer and found one of the worst cpu bugs ever found. Azure will soon be offering more customized ubuntu containers with a ms optimized kernel. Top linux kernel developer greg kroahhartman gave a new 30minute interview with tfir during the open source summit, 2019. Now, as microsoft releases hyperv linux integration components linuxic under the gpl version 2, apparently microsoft calls the gpl ally. Microsoft and canonicals relationship is getting closer besides ubuntu for windows. Recently, i was looking for some way to improve security on my linux boxes.
New features include virtualization memory deduplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important btrfs improvements and speedups, ati r600r700 3d and kms support and oth. In both cases, it helps to reduce linux boot time and streamline memory use. The story was first reported in paul thurrotts wininfo yesterday. As reported by phoronix, torvalds has warned kernel developers against using zfs on linux, an implementation of openzfs, and refuses to.
Are you ever listening to an album, and thinking man, this sounds good, but i wish it crossed from userspace to kernelspa. An anonymous reader submits a researcher at reykjavik university network laboratory. Its a proper linux environment, you can install stuff using your. As near as i can tell, microsoft hasnt even bother naming their kernel other than calling it the kernel or the windows nt kernel which is no different than the kernel in windows nt.
Zombieload v2 is the codename of a vulnerability that allows malware or a malicious threat. Linux kernel being written without security and in mind. Timely news source for technology related news with a heavy slant. Users can put basically any linux distribution of their choice on that kernel. Developers are still expected to work together in the linux kernel with. We also support the eventual inclusion of a linux kernel with exfat. He discusses security in the postspectre world, remembers when microsoft joined the linux distros mailing list, and acknowledges goodnaturedly that he and richard stallman approach things from a different standpoint.
The first azure sphere chip was the mediatek mt3620, which included an onboard security subsystem microsoft christened pluton. Microsoft and canonical make custom linux kernel slashdot. Sasha levin, who describes himself as a linux kernel hacker at the beast. Microsoft also unveiled a new update to wsl, a compatibility layer for running linux binary executables natively on windows. Of course, there was little chance the device drivers would be accepted into the linux kerne. Microsoft has revealed details about a new project it has been working on for linux kernel. The icon that will appear in file explorer is the famous tux, the penguin mascot for the linux kernel. Microsoft has decided to remove the linux kernel from the. Sc00ter writes according to this security advisory from tempest security technologies there is a security flaw in the linux 2. Timely news source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards linux and open source issues. Microsoft seeks to join the official linuxdistros mailing. But microsoft has been busy rearchitecting wsl with wsl 2 so that it actually will provide a microsoft written linux kernel running in a lightweight virtual machine thats. Google wants android to use regular linux kernel slashdot. Windows 10 is getting linux files integration in file.
Microsoft releases linux device drivers as gpl slashdot. Are you ever listening to an album, and thinking man, this sounds good, but i wish it crossed from userspace to kernel spa. Microsoft readies exfat patents for linux and open source. You can now run windows 10 on the raspberry pi 3 slashdot. Im testing grsecurity and its acls now and im quite satisfied with it, but i wonder, what are pros and cons of. Linux kernel proposed usage of rust which contains freedom flaws and a centralized code repository that is more prone to cyber attack and generally requires internet access to use. Krispysausage writes one of the big features discussed in early speculation of windows vista sp1 was the kernel upgrade, which was supposed to bring the operating system into line with the longhorn kernel used.
Microsoft reboots the utilities as an open source project. While there are still tests to be made and hoops to be jumped through, it should be released in the next major linux kernel release, 5. As reported by phoronix, torvalds has warned kernel developers against using zfs on linux, an implementation of openzfs, and refuses to merge any zfs code until oracle changes the open. If we cast linux into a similar vein, linux users are actually running gnugnome, gnukde, etc. Microsofts windows command line blog offers more information about wsl 2, complete with an install guide, list of user experience changes. That project morphed into azure sphere, which microsoft announced in april 2018. Microsoft also want its oss to run the linux kernel. Of course, there was little chance the device drivers would be accepted into the linux kernel base unless open source, but the news suggests a shift for microsoft. In this episode of lets talk, we sat down with goodkin to talk about the freebsd project and the foundation. Gentoobased calculate linux 20 now available for download. Linux kernel head linus torvalds has warned engineers against adding a module for the zfs filesystem that was designed by sun microsystems and now owned by oracle due to licensing issues, reports zdnet. Microsoft has decided to remove the linux kernel from.
But microsoft has been busy rearchitecting wsl with wsl 2 so that it actually will provide a microsoft written linux kernel running in a lightweight virtual machine thats based on the subset of hyper v. Microsoft built its own custom linux kernel for its new iot service. Thus to run bash and all that you needed to install a linux distribution that ran on windows, like ubuntu. Microsoft unveils a new terminal for windows 10 and. I found few linux patches like grsecurity, lids now also as linux security module, medusa ds9. In windows, the kernel version number is once again in sync with the product version.
While it sells many linuxpowered android devices, it is now embracing the open source kernel in a new way. Zdnet reports that therell be some changes in microsoft s second version of the windows subsystem for linux, wsl2. Linux kernel forcing adaption of drm, including hdcp. While it sells many linux powered android devices, it is now embracing the open source kernel in a new way. Many people may have 1 windows desktop, plus a linux based router or access point, tv running linux, android phone with a linux kernel etc. But microsoft has been busy rearchitecting wsl with wsl 2 so that it actually will provide a microsoftwritten linux kernel running in a lightweight virtual machine thats based on the subset of hyper v. This is a linux kernel module, this doesnt pass through the core kernel developers, this is pretty much released on github if they provide source. Microsoft announces ipe, a new code integrity feature for linux. Microsoft is testing the linux file explorer integration in a new build of windows 10 thats available for testers today. Microsoft has decided to remove the linux kernel from the windows os image with wsl2. Windows subsystem for linux 2 will include a microsoft. Previously, windows 10 users would have to manually navigate to a unc path to get access to linux files from the windows subsystem. Microsoft is planning to fully integrate linux file access into the builtin file explorer.
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