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Monday, January 21st, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 3:54p |
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (gitolite3, gvfs, php, radare2, and syslog-ng), Mageia (libssh, php, python-django16, and rdesktop), openSUSE (podofo), and SUSE (libraw, openssh, PackageKit, and wireshark). | | 6:54p |
Kernel prepatch 5.0-rc3 The 5.0-rc3 kernel prepatch has been released. " This rc is a bit bigger than usual. Partly because I missed a
networking pull request for rc2, and as a result rc3 now contains
_two_ networking pull updates. But part of it may also just be that it
took a while for people to find and then fix bugs after the holiday
season." | | 7:54p |
[$] Persistent memory for transient data
Arguably, the most notable characteristic of persistent memory is that it
is persistent: it retains its contents over power cycles. One other
important aspect of these persistent-memory arrays that, we are told, will
soon be everywhere, is their sheer size and low cost; persistent memory is
a relatively
inexpensive way to attach large amounts of memory to a system. Large,
cheap memory arrays seem likely to be attractive to users who may not care
about persistence and who can live with slower access speeds. Supporting
such users is the objective of a pair of
patch sets that have been circulating in recent months. |
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