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Wednesday, December 18th, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 3:45p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (debian-edu-config, harfbuzz, libvorbis, and python-ecdsa), Fedora (chromium, fribidi, libssh, and openslp), openSUSE (chromium), Oracle (grub2), Red Hat (rh-maven35-apache-commons-beanutils), SUSE (kernel, libssh, mariadb, samba, and xen), and Ubuntu (openjdk-8, openjdk-lts). | | 3:53p |
Stable kernel updates Stable kernels 5.4.4, 5.3.17, 4.19.90, and 4.14.159 have been released. They all contain
important fixes and users should upgrade.
Update: Stable kernels 5.4.5 and 5.3.18 have also been released. This is the
last 5.3.y kernel release and users should move to 5.4.y. | | 9:04p |
[$] Fedora and optical media testing
Once upon a time, Linux was installed from a stack of floppy
disks—thankfully cassette tape "drives" were long in the past at that
point—but floppies were superseded by optical media, first CDs and then
DVDs. These days, those options are starting to fade away in most new
computer systems; just as it is now rather hard to find a floppy-based Linux
installer, not to mention the media and drives themselves, someday optical
media installation will disappear as well. For Fedora, that day has not truly
arrived, though a somewhat confusingly presented proposal on the Fedora
devel mailing list is, to a limited extent, a step in that direction. | | 9:20p |
[$] A year-end wrap-up from LWN 2019 is coming to a close. It has been another busy year with a lot going on in the Linux and free-software communities. Here at LWN, we have a longstanding tradition of looking back at the predictions made in January to see just how badly we did; it's not good to go against tradition no matter how embarrassing the results might be, so we might as well get right into it. |
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