LWN.net's Journal
 
[Most Recent Entries] [Calendar View]

Wednesday, May 6th, 2020

    Time Event
    2:54p
    Security updates for Wednesday
    Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (libmicrodns and salt), Debian (graphicsmagick, salt, sqlite3, and wordpress), Fedora (java-11-openjdk), openSUSE (chromium and sqliteodbc), Red Hat (firefox, squid, and squid:4), Slackware (firefox and thunderbird), SUSE (ardana-ansible, ardana-barbican, ardana-cluster, ardana-db, ardana-designate, ardana-input-model, ardana-logging, ardana-monasca, ardana-mq, ardana-neutron, ardana-octavia, ardana-osconfig, ardana-tempest, ardana-tls, crowbar-core, crowbar-ha, crowbar-openstack, memcached, openstack-ceilometer, openstack-cinder, openstack-designate, openstack-heat, openstack-ironic, openstack-ironic-image, openstack-manila, openstack-neutron, openstack-nova, openstack-octavia, openstack-octavia-amphora-image, python-cinderclient, python-glanceclient, python-ironic-lib, python-ironicclient, python-keystonemiddleware, python-manila-tempest-plugin, python-novaclient, python-octaviaclient, python-openstackclient, python-os-brick, python-oslo.config, python-oslo.rootwrap, python-oslo.utils, python-swiftclient, python-watcherclient, release-notes-suse-openstack-cloud, rubygem-crowbar-client, rubygem-puma, zookeeper, openldap2, and python-Pillow), and Ubuntu (php7.4).
    3:02p
    Stable kernel updates
    Stable kernels 5.6.11, 5.4.39, 4.19.121, 4.14.179, 4.9.222, and 4.4.222 have been released. They all contain
    important fixes and users should upgrade.
    9:22p
    [$] Making Emacs popular again
    The Emacs editor predates
    Linux, and was once far more popular, but it
    has fallen into relative obscurity over the years.
    In a mega-thread on the emacs-devel mailing list, participants discussed
    various ideas for making Emacs more "attractive", in both aesthetic
    and in "appealing to more users" senses of that term. Any improvements
    to Emacs in that regard have numerous hurdles to overcome, however. There
    are technical questions and, naturally, licensing considerations, but
    there is also the philosophical question of what it is, exactly, that stops
    the venerable text editor from being more popular.

    << Previous Day 2020/05/06
    [Calendar]
    Next Day >>

LWN.net   About LJ.Rossia.org