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Monday, March 27th, 2017

    Time Event
    3:11p
    Security updates for Monday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (apt-cacher, jbig2dec, libplist, python3.2, tnef, and xrdp), Fedora (firefox, mbedtls, and sane-backends), Mageia (flash-player-plugin, freetype2, glibc, kernel, kernel-linus, kernel-tmb, libquicktime, libwmf, and tnef), and Ubuntu (thunderbird).
    3:16p
    Stable kernel updates
    Stable kernels 4.10.6, 4.9.18, and 4.4.57 have been released. All of them
    contain important fixes and users should upgrade.
    3:38p
    SecureDrop and Alexandre Oliva are 2016 Free Software Awards winners
    The Free Software Foundation has announced
    the winners     of the 2016 Free Software Awards. The Award for Projects
    of Social Benefit went to SecureDrop
    and the Award for the Advancement of Free Software went to Alexandre Oliva. "SecureDrop is an anonymous whistleblowing platform used by major news organizations and maintained by Freedom of the Press Foundation. Originally written by the late Aaron Swartz with assistance from Kevin Poulsen and James Dolan, the free software platform was designed to facilitate private and anonymous conversations and secure document transfer between journalists and sensitive sources."
    9:20p
    DragonFly BSD 4.8
    DragonFly BSD 4.8 has been released. "DragonFly
    version 4.8 brings EFI boot support in the installer, further speed
    improvements in the kernel, a new NVMe driver, a new eMMC driver, and Intel
    video driver updates.    " DragonFly is an independent BSD variant,
    perhaps best known for the HAMMER filesystem.
    11:01p
    [$] The future of DAX
    DAX is the mechanism that enables direct access to files stored in
    persistent memory arrays without the need to copy the data through the page
    cache. At the 2017 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management
    Summit, Ross Zwisler led a plenary session on the future of DAX. Development in
    this area offers a number of interesting trade-offs between data safety and
    enabling the highest performance.

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