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Friday, June 21st, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 1:11p |
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (libvirt and python), Debian (intel-microcode, php-horde-form, and znc), Fedora (firefox), Mageia (firefox, flash-player-plugin, git, graphicsmagick, kernel, kernel-linus, kernel-tmb, phpmyadmin, and thunderbird), Oracle (libssh2, libvirt, and python), Red Hat (libvirt and python), Scientific Linux (libvirt), Slackware (bind and mozilla), SUSE (enigmail), and Ubuntu (bind9, intel-microcode, mosquitto, postgresql-10, postgresql-11, and thunderbird). | | 2:07p |
Huang: Open Source Could Be a Casualty of the Trade War Bunnie Huang writes
about the escalating trade wars and how they could be harmful to the open-source community. " Because the administrative action so far
against Huawei relies only upon export license restrictions, the Linux
Foundation has been able to find shelter under a license exemption for open
source software. However, should Huawei be designated as a 'foreign
adversary' under EO13873, it greatly expands the scope of the ban because
it prohibits transactions with entities under the direction or influence of
foreign adversaries. The executive order also broadly includes any
information technology including hardware and software with no exemption
for open source." | | 2:52p |
[$] Statistics from the 5.2 kernel — and before
As of this writing, just over 13,600 non-merge changesets have been pulled
into the mainline repository for the 5.2 development cycle. The time has
come, once again, for a look at where that work came from and who supported
it. There are some unique aspects to 5.2 that have thrown off some of the
usual numbers. | | 10:18p |
[$] FreeBSD turns 26 The FreeBSD operating system is continuing
to make progress, 26 years after it got its name. Among the areas where
work is being done is on
improved support for RISC-V, FUSE
filesystem updates, C runtime changes, and security improvements. FreeBSD
Day is celebrated on June 19, in recognition of the date in 1993 when
the name FreeBSD was coined for
a fork of the 386BSD project. The first official release
of FreeBSD did not occur until November 1, 1993, however.
Ahead of FreeBSD
Day, the project released its quarterly
report for the first quarter of 2019, outlining some of its ongoing
efforts. In addition to the quarterly report, the executive director of the
FreeBSD Foundation provided LWN with some insights into the state of the
project and the foundation that supports it. |
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