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Wednesday, August 25th, 2021

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    1:08p
    30 Years ago...
    On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds posted his famous message to the comp.os.minix USENET group:

    I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready.

    After all of these years, it still feels like it's "starting to get ready"; what a ride it has been.

    2:40p
    Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election: nominees sought
    The call for nominees for the 2021 Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election has gone out.

    The TAB serves as the interface between the kernel development community and the Linux Foundation, advising the Foundation on kernel-related matters, helping member companies learn to work with the community, and working to resolve community-related problems (preferably before they get out of hand). We also support the Code of Conduct committee in their mission.

    The election itself will be held during the Linux Plumbers Conference, September 20 to 24. Note that the election procedures have changed this year with an eye toward broadening the community that is eligible to vote.

    2:41p
    Security updates for Wednesday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (openssl), openSUSE (libspf2, openssl-1_0_0, and openssl-1_1), Oracle (libsndfile), SUSE (nodejs10, nodejs12, openssl, openssl-1_0_0, openssl-1_1, and openssl1), and Ubuntu (openssl).
    6:56p
    [$] DVB, header files, and user-space regressions
    A regression that was recently reported for 5.14 in the media
    subsystem is a bit of a strange beast. The kernel's user-space binary
    interface (ABI) was not changed, which is the usual test for a patch to get
    reverted, but the report still led to a reversion. The change did lead to
    problems building a user-space application because it moved some header
    files to staging/ as part of a cleanup for a deprecated—though
    apparently still functioning—driver for a Digital
    Video Broadcasting     (DVB) device. There are a few different issues
    tangled together here, but the reversion of a regression in the user-space
    API (and not ABI) is a new wrinkle.
    7:15p
    Reminder: The Kernel Report on August 26
    One last reminder that LWN editor Jonathan Corbet will be presenting a
    version of The Kernel Report at 9:00 US/Mountain (15:00 UTC) on
    August 26. This live presentation is part of a test of the
    infrastructure for the 2021 Linux
    Plumbers Conference    , but anybody is welcome to attend regardless of
    whether they are registered for LPC or not. The meeting "room" will open
    one hour ahead of the talk at meet.lpc.events; we hope to see you
    there.

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