Software Development News Google and the Linux Foundation to prioritize funds to underwrite two full-time maintainers for Linux kernel security development
Google and the Linux Foundation have announced plans to maintain and improve Linux’s long-term security. As part of the plan, the organizations will prioritize funds to underwrite long-time Linux kernel maintainers Gustavo Silva and Nathan Chancellor as full-time developers focused on Linux kernel security development. This decision follows a survey by the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), which found a need for additional security work on the Linux operating system. “At Google, security is always top of mind and we understand the critical role it plays to the sustainability of open source software,” said Dan Lorenc, a staff software engineer at Google.
