Linux 5.0, Canonical Update, openSUSE Board Elections, Woman and Girls in Science, European Astro-Pi Challenge
The release candidate 6 for the highly anticipated 5.0 Linux kernel was just released. You can view the changeset for 5.0-rc6 here.
Canonical issued an update (USN-3878-3) and a formal apology for a recent kernel update regression that prevented systems with certain graphics chipsets from booting.
A stable version of Chrome OS 72 was just released on Friday which introduces better access to external storage, touchscreen optimizations for tablet mode and more.
There are only a few days left to cast your ballot in the 2018-2019 openSUSE board elections. Be sure to get your vote in.
Today, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and ESA Education are celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and to support the occasion, astronaut Jenni Sidey is helping to kick off the European Astro-Pi challenge. While the challenge itself is not limited to female contestants, it will hopefully encourage more to participate.
Petros Koutoupis, LJ Editor at Large, is currently a senior performance software engineer at Cray for its Lustre High Performance File System division. He is also the creator and maintainer of the RapidDisk Project. Petros has worked in the data storage industry for well over a decade and has helped pioneer the many technologies unleashed in the wild today.
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