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Kernel: Asahi, Hammerspace, and Zephyr
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LibreNews ☛ Asahi Lina releases all code as CC0 out of frustration
On the 25th of March, Linux developer Danilo Krummrich sent a series of patches to the mailing list titled "DRM Rust abstractions". As he mentions in the email, the series have been worked initially by Asahi Lina, who has since then stepped down, sent a private email to him saying "feel free to take anything that's useful and use it/submit it in any way", and hinted at the fact that she was fed up with kernel development and didn't want to have anything to do with it anymore. Danilo credits Lina as a co-author in all the patches, and asks her whether she's fine being co-author (instead of primary author, which Danilo set himself to be).
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Silicon Angle ☛ Hammerspace nabs $100M for its Linux-powered data management platform
Hammerspace Inc., a startup that uses the GNU/Linux kernel to provide applications with faster access to data, has closed a $100 million funding round. The company detailed today that the Series B deal was led by Altimeter with participation from ARK Invest and several unnamed backers.
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Bootlin ☛ Zephyr: making a driver for the Nunchuk joystick
This post is the fifth blog post in our series of blog posts about Zephyr.