Friday, April 12th, 2019

Time	Event
2:47a	[$] Counting corporate beans Some things simply take time. When your editor restarted the search for a free accounting system, he had truly hoped to be done by now. But life gets busy, and accounting systems are remarkably prone to falling off the list of things one wants to deal with in any given day. On the other hand, accounting can return to that list quickly whenever LWN's proprietary accounting software does something particularly obnoxious. This turns out to be one of those times, so your editor set out to determine whether beancount could do the job. (Comment on this)
3:05p	Security updates for Friday Security updates have been issued by CentOS (freerdp, kernel, openssh, and python), Fedora (checkstyle), openSUSE (bluez, file, kernel, and libarchive), SUSE (apache2, curl, ghostscript, libvirt, openssh, and systemd), and Ubuntu (rssh). (Comment on this)
7:38p	Emacs 26.2 released Version 26.2 of the Emacs editor is out. The headline features include the ability to build modules outside of the source tree, Unicode 11 compliance, and the long-awaited ability to compress an entire directory full of files with a single keystroke. (Comment on this)
10:26p	[$] Expedited memory reclaim from killed processes Running out of memory puts a Linux system into a difficult situation; in the worst cases, there is often no way out other than killing one or more processes to reclaim their memory. This killing may be done by the kernel itself or, on systems like Android, by a user-space out-of-memory (OOM) killer process. Killing a process is almost certain to make somebody unhappy; the kernel should at least try to use that process's memory expeditiously so that, with luck, no other processes must die. That does not always happen, though, in current kernels. This patch set from Suren Baghdasaryan aims to improve the situation, but the solution that results in the end may take a different form. (Comment on this)

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