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Friday, March 31st, 2017
| Time |
Event |
| 1:53p |
OpenShot 2.3 released Version
2.3 of the OpenShot video editor has been released. " This is one
of the biggest updates ever to OpenShot, and is filled with new features,
performance improvements, and tons of bug fixes". This release adds a new transform tool, better zooming, better title editing, and more; the razor tool has also made a comeback. | | 2:53p |
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (chromium), Debian (tiff3), Fedora (erlang), Mageia (deluge and mariadb), openSUSE (GraphicsMagick, pidgin, and wget), Red Hat (chromium-browser), and Ubuntu (firefox and samba). | | 3:08p |
[$] The ZUFS zero-copy filesystem
At the 2018 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit
(LSFMM), Boaz Harrosh presented his zero-copy user-mode filesystem (ZUFS).
It is both a filesystem in its own right and a framework similar to FUSE for
implementing filesystems in user space. It is geared toward extremely low latency and
high performance, particularly for systems using persistent memory.
| | 9:32p |
[$] Extending statx()
When Andreas Dilger proposed the statx() topic for the 2017 Linux
Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit, the system call had
still not been merged. But that all changed in the 4.11 development cycle when Al Viro merged the
system call to provide additional file information. So, unlike
previous
years, the discussion was not about how to merge such a system call but,
instead, how to extend statx() for additional file information. | | 11:04p |
Scientific Linux 5 End of Life The Scientific Linux project has announced that Scientific Linux 5 has reached its end of life. " After March 31 2017 Scientific Linux 5 will not receive further updates
and the files will be archived.
The existing files will be moved into
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/obsolete/ for archival
purposes after March 31 2017.
This will break existing yum repos and kickstarts using the official
distribution servers." | | 11:21p |
Announcing the PostgreSQL STIG Crunchy Data has announced
the availability of a "security technical implementation guide" for the
PostgreSQL database management system. " While the STIG was authored
for the benefit of the U.S. Government, the DISA PostgreSQL STIG offers
security-conscious enterprises a comprehensive guide for the configuration
and operation of open source PostgreSQL. Enterprises can refer to the STIG
as for guidance on PostgreSQL security best practices they consider open
source PostgreSQL as an alternative to proprietary, closed source, database
software."
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