GNOME's patent-troll counterattack [LWN.net]
Rothschild Patent Imaging LLC filed a patent suit against the GNOME Foundation in September, asserting a...
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When a kernel subsystem maintainer has a set of commits to send up the chain toward...
Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (aspell, graphite-web, imagemagick, mediawiki, milkytracker, nfs-utils, and openjdk-11), Fedora...
Kernel prepatch 5.4-rc4 [LWN.net]
The 5.4-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "This release cycle remains pretty normal. In fact,...
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kmalloc() is a frequently used primitive for the allocation of small objects in the kernel. During...
LTTng 2.11.0 "Lafontaine" released [LWN.net]
After more than two years of development, the Linux trace toolkit next generation (LTTng) project has...
Five new stable kernels [LWN.net]
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 5.3.7, 4.19.80, 4.14.150, 4.9.197, and 4.4.197 stable kernels....
Security updates for Friday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (poppler, sudo, and wordpress), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk), Red Hat (java-1.8.0-openjdk),...
Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) released [LWN.net]
Ubuntu has announced the release of 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" in desktop and server editions as well...
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The final days of the 5.3 kernel development cycle included an extensive discussion of the getrandom()...
Bazel 1.0 released [LWN.net]
Google has announced version 1.0 of its Bazel build system. "A growing list of Bazel users...
Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (sudo), Debian (libsdl1.2 and libsdl2), Mageia (e2fsprogs, kernel,...
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When last we looked in on the progress of the WireGuard VPN tunnel toward the mainline...
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The problems with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is not exactly an obvious talk topic for a...
Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (apache2 and unbound), Fedora (opendmarc, runc, and sudo), openSUSE...
Perl 6 renamed to Raku [LWN.net]
The pull request changing the name of Perl 6 to Raku has been merged. See the...
Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
Security updates have been issued by Debian (sudo and xtrlock), openSUSE (sudo), Red Hat (Single Sign-On),...