Friday, February 1st, 2019

Time	Event
4:08p	Security updates for Friday Security updates have been issued by Debian (agg, golang-1.7, golang-1.8, mariadb-10.0, and postgis), Fedora (kernel, kernel-headers, and kernel-tools), Mageia (gitolite and libvorbis), openSUSE (pdns-recursor and webkit2gtk3), Oracle (firefox, ghostscript, kernel, polkit, spice, and spice-server), Red Hat (etcd, ghostscript, polkit, spice, and spice-server), Scientific Linux (ghostscript, polkit, spice, and spice-server), SUSE (python3), and Ubuntu (libvncserver). (Comment on this)
5:31p	The GNU C Library version 2.29 is now available Version 2.29 of the GNU C library (glibc) is now available. It includes a wrapper for the getcpu() system call, optimized generic versions of multiple math functions (e.g. exp(), log2(), sinf()), new functions to allow posix_spawn() to run the new process in a different directory, and more. (Comment on this)
10:45p	[$] Rusty's reminiscences Rusty Russell was one of the first developers paid to work on the Linux kernel and the founder of the conference now known as linux.conf.au (LCA); he is one of the most highly respected figures in the Australian free-software community. The 2019 LCA was the 20th edition of this long-lived event; the organizers felt that it was an appropriate time to invite Russell to deliver the closing keynote talk. He used the opportunity to review his path into free software and the creation of LCA, but first a change of clothing was required. (Comment on this)

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