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Friday, January 31st, 2020

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    2:15p
    Security updates for Friday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (libsolv, libxmlrpc3-java, openjpeg2, qemu, and suricata), Fedora (ansible, chromium, java-latest-openjdk, links, mingw-openjpeg2, nss, openjpeg2, python-pillow, thunderbird, webkit2gtk3, and xen), Mageia (gdal, java-1.8.0-openjdk, mariadb, openjpeg2, and sqlite3), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (rh-java-common-xmlrpc), SUSE (e2fsprogs, ImageMagick, php72, tigervnc, and wicked), and Ubuntu (keystone).
    4:49p
    [$] Accelerating netfilter with hardware offload, part 2
    As network interfaces get faster, the amount of CPU time available to
    process each packet becomes correspondingly smaller. The good news is that
    many tasks, including packet filtering, can be offloaded to the hardware
    itself. The bad news is that the Linux kernel required quite a bit of work to be
    able to take advantage of that capability. The first article in this series provided an
    overview of how hardware-based packet filtering can work and the support
    for this feature that already existed
    in the kernel. This series now concludes with a detailed look at how
    offloaded packet filtering works in the netfilter subsystem and how
    administrators can make use of it.
    10:16p
    The Yocto Project mourns Scott Rifenbark
    The longtime tech writer for the Yocto Project, Scott Rifenbark, has died after a battle with cancer. Project architect Richard Purdie announced the sad news on the yocto mailing list; he also reflected on Rifenbark and his impact: "I remember interviewing Scott over 10 years ago when forming a team at
    Intel to work on what became the Yocto Project, he was with it from the
    start. He warned me he wasn't an entirely traditional tech writer but I
    warned we weren't aiming to be a traditional project either. It was a
    great match. He stayed with the project ever since in one way or
    another, he enjoyed working on the project and we enjoyed working with
    him.

    The concept of having a tech writer as part of the team was a decision
    I'm proud of and it shows in the material supporting the project today
    but that success belongs to Scott and his approach to it. Someone else
    put that best, 'He would first try the procedure or instructions before
    documenting it, I was really impressed'. He was hands on and wanted
    things to be understandable and correct, a huge challenge with some of
    the complexities we deal with.    "

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