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Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
| Time |
Event |
| 1:42a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 3, 2020
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 3, 2020 is available. | | 2:16p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Mageia (cimg, pngcheck, poppler, tor, and xdg-utils), openSUSE (mariadb), Red Hat (go-toolset-1.14-golang), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-gke-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon). | | 4:08p |
Linux Foundation 2020 annual report The Linux Foundation has published a
glossy report of its activities for 2020. " 2020 has been a year
of challenges for the Linux Foundation ('LF') and our hosted
communities. During this pandemic, we’ve all seen our daily lives and those
of many of our colleagues, friends, and family around the world completely
changed. Too many in our community also grieved over the loss of family and
friends.
It was uplifting to see LF members join the fight against COVID-19. Our
members worldwide contributed technical resources for scientific
researchers, offered assistance to struggling families and individuals,
contributed to national and international efforts, and some even came
together to create open source projects under LF Public Health to help
countries deal with the pandemic." | | 6:36p |
[$] XFS, stable kernels, and -rc releases Ever since the stable-update process was created, there have been questions about which patches are suitable for inclusion in those updates; usually, these discussions are driven by people who think that the criteria should be more restrictive. A regression in the XFS filesystem that found its way into the 5.9.9stable update briefly rekindled this discussion. In one sense, there was little new ground covered in this iteration, but there was an interesting point raised about the relationship between stable updates and the mainline kernel -rc releases. |
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