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Monday, April 1st, 2019

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    1:48p
    Kernel prepatch 5.1-rc3
    The 5.1-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for
    testing. Linus says: "Nothing particularly unusual going on
    here    ".
    2:16p
    Linux Journal at 25
    Linux Journal celebrates 25
    years     since it began publishing. "Most magazines have the life expectancy of a house plant.

    Such was the betting line for Linux Journal when it started in April 1994. Our budget was a shoestring. The closest our owner, SSC (Specialized System Consultants) came to the magazine business was with the reference cards it published for UNIX, C, VI, Java, Bash and so on.    "
    3:46p
    Security updates for Monday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, drupal7, gpsd, libav, libdatetime-timezone-perl, php5, rails, thunderbird, twig, tzdata, and wordpress), Fedora (edk2, flatpak, fuse, ghostscript, gnutls, golang-googlecode-go-crypto, grub2, mxml, poppler, and systemd), Mageia (file, kernel, live, mplayer, vlc, openjpeg2, pdns, and poppler), openSUSE (containerd, docker, docker-runc, golang-github-docker-libnetwork, runc, kernel, ovmf, and ucode-intel), SUSE (adcli, sssd, GraphicsMagick, kernel, liblouis, libssh2_org, nodejs6, openssl, ovmf, SDL, sysstat, tiff, various KMPs, and xen), and Ubuntu (dovecot and gpac).
    4:52p
    Bottomley: A Roadmap for Eliminating Patents in Open Source
    James Bottomley has posted a
    detailed description     of how patent exhaustion might be used to mostly
    eliminate the software patent threat to free software. "The
    intriguing possibility this offers us is that we may be close to an
    enforceable court decision (at least in the US) that would render all
    patents in open source owned by community members exhausted and thus
    unenforceable. The purpose of this blog post is to explain the current
    landscape and how we might be able to get the necessary missing court
    decisions to make this hope a reality.    " LWN covered the FOSDEM talk by Van Lindberg that underlies Bottomley's post.

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