FreeBSD Considers Making Use Of Rust Within Its Base System

FreeBSD developers are currently weighing the benefits and costs of allowing the Rust programming language to be used within the FreeBSD base system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Considers-Rust-Base

Linux 6.8 Now Enables -Wstringop-overflow To Warn About Buffer Overflows

A change merged today for the Linux 6.8 kernel intentionally following yesterday's Linux 6.8-rc1 is a move to enable the "-Wstringop-overflow" compiler option by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Wstringop-overflow

Gentoo Made Progress In 2023 On Binary Packages, Modern C & Reviving DEC Alpha Support

The Gentoo Linux project published a 2023 retrospective on Monday that outlines their ongoing high level of development, gaining three new developers over the past calendar year, and various initiatives embarked on by the developers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-2023-Progress