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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (python-pysaml2), Mageia (clamav, graphicsmagick, opencontainers-runc, squid, and xmlsec1), Oracle...
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[$] A look at "BPF Performance Tools"
BPF has exploded within the Linux world over the last few years, growing from its networking...
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Manjaro 19.0 released [LWN.net]
Version 19 of the Arch-based Manjaro distribution is out. "The Xfce edition remains our flagship offering...
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FSF to launch code hosting [LWN.net]
The Free Software Foundation has announced that it is planning to launch a public code hosting...
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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (curl and otrs2), Fedora (NetworkManager-ssh and python-psutil), Mageia (ipmitool,...
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[$] watch_mount(), watch_sb(), and fsinfo() (again)
Filesystems, by design, hide a lot of complexity from users. At times, though, those users need...
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Kernel prepatch 5.6-rc3 [LWN.net]
The 5.6-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus says: "Fairly normal rc3 as far as...
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Stable kernel updates [LWN.net]
Stable kernels 5.5.6, 5.4.22, and 4.19.106 have been released. They all have a large set of...
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Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (libpam-radius-auth, pillow, ppp, proftpd-dfsg, and python-pysaml2), Fedora (firefox, glib2,...
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[$] CAP_PERFMON — and new capabilities in general
The perf_event_open() system call is a complicated beast, requiring a fair amount of study to master....
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Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (openjpeg2), Debian (cloud-init, jackson-databind, and python-reportlab), Red Hat (ksh,...
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[$] Memory-management optimization with DAMON
To a great extent, memory management is based on making predictions: which pages of memory will...
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Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (netty and netty-3.9), Fedora (ceph, dovecot, poppler, and webkit2gtk3),...
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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 20, 2020
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 20, 2020 is available.
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Stable kernel updates [LWN.net]
Stable kernels 5.5.5, 5.4.21, and 4.19.105 have been released, with the usual set of important fixes.
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[$] Debian discusses how to handle 2038
At this point, most of the kernel work to avoid the year-2038 apocalypse has been completed....
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The Linux Foundation and Harvard’s Lab for Innovation Science release census for open-source software security [LWN.net]
The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative and Harvard University's Lab for Innovation Science have teamed up...
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Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox, java-1.7.0-openjdk, ksh, and sudo), Debian (php7.0 and python-django),...
