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Monday, August 19th, 2019

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    1:17p
    Kernel prepatch 5.3-rc5
    Linus has released the 5.3-rc5 kernel
    prepatch, saying: "It's been calm, and nothing here stands out, except perhaps some of
    the VM noise where we un-reverted some changes wrt node-local vs
    hugepage allocations.    "
    1:21p
    A new chair for the openSUSE board
    Richard Brown has announced that he is stepping down as the chair of the
    openSUSE board. "I have absolute confidence in the openSUSE Board; Indeed, I don't think I
    would be able to make this decision at this time if I wasn't certain that I
    was leaving openSUSE in good hands.

    On that note, SUSE has appointed Gerald Pfeifer as my replacement as
    Chair. Gerald is SUSE's EMEA-based CTO, with a long history as a Tumbleweed
    user, an active openSUSE Member, and upstream contributor/maintainer in
    projects like GCC and Wine.    "
    1:39p
    Security updates for Monday
    Security updates have been issued by CentOS (kernel and openssl), Debian (ffmpeg, golang-1.11, imagemagick, kde4libs, openldap, and python3.4), Fedora (gradle, hostapd, kdelibs3, and mgetty), Gentoo (adobe-flash, hostapd, mariadb, patch, thunderbird, and vlc), Mageia (elfutils, mariadb, mythtv, postgresql, and redis), openSUSE (chromium, kernel, LibreOffice, and zypper, libzypp and libsolv), Oracle (ghostscript), Red Hat (rh-php71-php), SUSE (bzip2, evince, firefox, glib2, glibc, java-1_8_0-openjdk, polkit, postgresql10, python3, and squid), and Ubuntu (firefox).
    1:46p
    Stapelberg: distri: a Linux distribution to research fast package management
    Michael Stapelberg has announced
    the first release of "distri", a distribution focused on simplifying and
    accelerating package management. "distri’s package manager is extremely fast. Its main bottleneck is typically the network link, even at high speed links (I tested with a 100 Gbps link).

    Its speed comes largely from an architecture which allows the package manager to do less work.    "
    11:17p
    [$] On-disk format robustness requirements for new filesystems
    The "Extendable Read-Only File System" (or "EROFS") was first posted
    by Gao Xiang in May 2018; it was merged into the staging tree for
    the 4.19 release. There has been a steady stream of work on EROFS since
    then, and its author now thinks that it is ready to move out of staging
    and join the other official filesystems in the kernel. It would seem,
    though, that there is one final hurdle that it may have to clear:
    robustness in the face of a corrupted on-disk filesystem image. That
    raises an interesting question: to what extent do new filesystems have to
    exhibit a level of robustness that is not met by the filesystems that are
    currently in heavy use?

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