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Friday, January 15th, 2021

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    4:54p
    [$] Fast commits for ext4
    The Linux 5.10 release included a change
    that is expected to significantly increase the performance of the ext4
    filesystem; it goes by the name "fast commits" and introduces a new,
    lighter-weight journaling method. Let us look into how the feature works, who
    can benefit from it, and when its use may be appropriate.
    5:24p
    Security updates for Friday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (flatpak, ruby-redcarpet, and wavpack), Fedora (dia, mingw-openjpeg2, and openjpeg2), Mageia (awstats, bison, cairo, kernel, kernel-linus, krb5, nvidia-current, nvidia390, php, and thunderbird), openSUSE (cobbler, firefox, kernel, libzypp, zypper, nodejs10, nodejs12, and nodejs14), Scientific Linux (thunderbird), Slackware (wavpack), SUSE (kernel, nodejs8, open-iscsi, openldap2, php7, php72, php74, slurm_20_02, and thunderbird), and Ubuntu (ampache and linux, linux-hwe, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-hwe-5.8, linux-lts-xenial).
    6:28p
    Stenberg: Food on the table while giving away code
    Daniel Stenberg writes
    about getting paid to work on curl
    — 21 years after starting the
    project. "I ran curl as a spare time project for decades. Over the
    years it became more and more common that users who submitted bug reports
    or asked for help about things were actually doing that during their paid
    work hours because they used curl in a commercial surrounding – which
    sometimes made the situation almost absurd. The ones who actually got paid
    to work with curl were asking the unpaid developers to help them
    out.
    "

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