- new[$] Ethics in a machine-learning world
Margaret Mitchell, a researcher focused on the intersection of machinelearning and ethics, was the morning keynote speaker on the third day of PyCon 2023. She spoke about herjourney into machine learning and how the Python language has beeninstr…
- 5 hours ago 6 Jun 23, 2:06pm -
- newSecurity updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (linux-5.10), Red Hat (cups-filters, curl, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (apache-commons-fileupload, openstack-heat, openstack-swift, python-Werkzeug, and openstack-heat, python-We…
- 7 hours ago 6 Jun 23, 12:07pm -
- [$] Supporting large block sizes
At the2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem,Memory-Management and BPF Summit, Luis Chamberlain led a plenarysession on kernel support for block sizes larger than 4KB. There areassumptions in the current kernel that the block size used by a block-layer…
- 1 day ago 5 Jun 23, 3:09pm -
- Five new stable kernels
The 6.3.6, 6.1.32, 5.15.115, 5.10.182, and 5.4.245 stable kernels have been released.They contain a relatively small number of important fixes throughout thekernel tree.
- 1 day ago 5 Jun 23, 3:08pm -
- [$] Special file descriptors in BPF
Developers learning the Unix (or POSIX in general) system-call set willquickly encounter file descriptors, which are used to represent open filesand more. Developers also tend to learn early on that the first three filedescriptors are special, wi…
- 1 day ago 5 Jun 23, 3:04pm -
- Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, cpio, mariadb-10.3, nbconvert, sofia-sip, and wireshark), Fedora (ImageMagick, mingw-python-requests, openssl, python3.6, texlive-base, and webkitgtk), Red Hat (apr-util, git, gnutls, kernel, ker…
- 1 day ago 5 Jun 23, 3:00pm -
- Kernel prepatch 6.4-rc5
Linus has released 6.4-rc5 for testing.Nothing particularly strange here, most notable is probably justthe quick revert of the module loading trial that caused problemsfor people in rc4 depending on just random timing luck (or rather,lack t…
- 2 days ago 4 Jun 23, 8:06pm -
- Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice
Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has letit be known that LibreOffice will be dropped from a future Red HatEnterprise Linux release, and the future of its support in Fedora isunclear as well.The Red Hat Display Systems team (the team behind most of Re…
- 3 days ago 3 Jun 23, 7:46am -
- [$] Memory-management documentation and development process
As the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem,Memory-Management and BPF Summit neared its conclusion, two sessionswere held in the memory-management track on process-oriented topics. MikeRapoport ran a session on memory-management documentation (or the l…
- 4 days ago 2 Jun 23, 4:28pm -
- Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (cups and netatalk), SUSE (cups, ImageMagick, installation-images, libvirt, openvswitch, and qemu), and Ubuntu (avahi, cups, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-gcp, linux…
- 4 days ago 2 Jun 23, 1:47pm -