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Ben Hoyt has published a critical
overview of the Python 3.10 pattern-matching feature.

As shown above, there are cases where match really
shines. But they are few and far between, mostly when handling
syntax trees and writing parsers….

The first day of the Kangrejos (Rust for Linux) conference
introduced the project and what it was trying to accomplish; day 2 covered a number of core Rust
concepts and their relevance to the kernel. On the third and final day of
the confe…

The 5.15-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for
testing.

So I’ve spent a fair amount of this week trying to sort out all the
odd warnings, and I want to particularly thank Guenter Roeck for his
work on tracking where the build failures due to -Werror …

The relatively large
5.14.6,
5.13.19, and
5.10.67
stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of
important fixes. Note that this is the final update for the 5.13.x
series.

Here’s a
post from Christian Schaller describing a number of the
desktop-oriented improvements that can be expected in the Fedora 35
release.

And I know some people will wonder why we spent so much time
working with NVidia around their …

Ariadne Conill looks
at the difficulties caused by the OpenSSL 3 transition in the
context of Alpine Linux.

For distributions, however, the story is different:
cryptography moved to using Rust, because they wanted to
leverage all of th…

The first day of the online Kangrejos conference was focused on
introducing the effort to bring the Rust programming language into the
Linux kernel. On the second day, conference organizer Miguel Ojeda shifted
to presenting the Rust language i…

This
ars technica article describes a problem with the Travis
continuous-integration service:

A security flaw in Travis CI potentially exposed the secrets of
thousands of open source projects that rely on the hosted
continuous integration s…

The first ever Rust for Linux conference, known as Kangrejos, got underway on
September 13. Organizer Miguel Ojeda used the opening session to give
an overview of why there is interest in using Rust in the kernel, where the
challenges are,…

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 16, 2021 is available.