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Monday, April 5th, 2021
| Time |
Event |
| 12:10a |
Kernel prepatch 5.12-rc6 The 5.12-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. " Well, if rc5 was bigger than usual, and I worried about what that
meant for this release, rc6 is positively tiny.
So I think it was just due to the usual random timing fluctuations,
probably mainly networking updates (which were in rc5, but not in
rc6). Which means that unless things change in the next two weeks, the
schedule for this release is going to be the usual one." | | 2:31p |
US Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle The long saga of Oracle's copyright-infringement against Google, which copied much of the Java API for use in Android, has come to an end with this
ruling [PDF] in favor of Google. " Google’s purpose was to create a
different task-related system for a different computing environment
(smartphones) and to create a platform—the Android platform—that would help
achieve and popularize that objective. The record demonstrates numerous
ways in which reimplementing an interface can further the development of
computer programs. Google’s purpose was therefore consistent with that
creative progress that is the basic constitutional objective of copyright
itself." | | 3:11p |
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libxstream-java, php-nette, and smarty3), Fedora (curl, openssl, spamassassin, and webkit2gtk3), Mageia (ant, batik, kernel, kernel-linus, nodejs-chownr, nodejs-yargs-parser, python-bottle, and ruby-em-http-request), openSUSE (curl and OpenIPMI), and Red Hat (openssl). | | 3:42p |
[$] Killing off /dev/kmem The recent proposalfrom David Hildenbrand to remove support for the /dev/kmem special file has not sparked a lot of discussion. Perhaps that is because today's youngsters, lacking an understanding of history, may be wondering what that file is in the first place and, thus, be unclear on why it may matter. Chances are that /dev/kmem will not be missed, but in passing it takes away a venerable part of the Unix kernel interface. |
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