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Calls for Presentations
Linux Developer Conference Brazil
The Linux Developer Conference Brazil takes place November 11 in São Paulo, Brazil. The call for papers closes October 7.CFP Deadlines: October 5, 2017 to December 4, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 7 | November 11 | Linux Developer Conference Brazil | São Paulo, Brazil |
| October 15 | April 26 April 27 |
FLOSSUK – Spring Conference | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| October 24 | October 26 October 27 |
Free Software and Open Source Symposium [CANCELLED] | Toronto, Canada |
| October 31 | March 8 March 11 |
SCALE 16x | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| November 2 | March 24 March 25 |
LibrePlanet | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| November 3 | February 3 February 4 |
FOSDEM 2018 | Brussels, Belgium |
| November 17 | January 26 January 28 |
DevConf.cz | Brno, Czech Republic |
| November 30 | January 22 | Kernel Miniconf at lca | Sydney, Australia |
| November 30 | March 8 | Icinga Camp Berlin 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
| December 3 | January 22 | Sysadmin Miniconf at lca | Sydney, Australia |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: October 5, 2017 to December 4, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| October 4 October 5 |
Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop | Paris, France |
| October 5 October 6 |
PyCon South Africa | Cape Town, South Africa |
| October 5 | Open Hardware Summit 2017 | Denver, CO, USA |
| October 6 October 7 |
Seattle GNU/Linux Conference | Seattle, WA, USA |
| October 6 October 8 |
PyGotham | New York, NY, USA |
| October 6 October 8 |
Festival of the Commons | Athens, Greece |
| October 7 October 8 |
Silicon Valley Code Camp | San Jose, CA, USA |
| October 7 October 8 |
MiniDebConf Prishtina | Prishtina, Kosovo |
| October 10 October 12 |
Qt World Summit | Berlin, Germany |
| October 11 October 13 |
LibreOffice Conference 2017 | Rome, Italy |
| October 14 October 16 |
GNOME.Asia Summit | Chongqing, China |
| October 16 October 20 |
Tcl/Tk Conference 2017 | Houston, TX, USA |
| October 18 October 20 |
O'Reilly Velocity Conference | London, UK |
| October 18 October 20 |
Plone Conference 2017 | Barcelona, Spain |
| October 18 October 20 |
14º Congresso Latino-americano de Software Livre e Tecnologias Abertas | Foz do Iguacu, Brazil |
| October 21 October 22 |
Datenspuren | Dresden, Germany |
| October 21 | 7th Real-Time Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 21 October 22 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 | Tokyo, Japan |
| October 21 October 22 |
GStreamer Conference 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 21 October 22 |
All Systems Go! | Berlin, Germany |
| October 23 October 24 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, USA |
| October 23 October 25 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 23 October 25 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 23 October 29 |
Privacyweek | Vienna (Wien), Austria |
| October 23 October 28 |
FOSS4G + SoTM Argentina 2017 | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| October 24 October 27 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2017 | Warsaw, Poland |
| October 24 October 27 |
Linux Kernel Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 25 October 27 |
PyCon DE | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| October 25 October 27 |
KVM Forum 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 26 October 27 |
Free Software and Open Source Symposium [CANCELLED] | Toronto, Canada |
| October 26 October 27 |
OpenWrt Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 26 October 29 |
European Coreboot Conference 2017 | Bochum, Germany |
| October 27 October 29 |
Mozilla Festival | London, UK |
| October 27 | Tracing Summit 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 28 October 29 |
Wine Project Annual Conference 2017 | Wrocław, Poland |
| October 28 October 29 |
freenode #live | Bristol, UK |
| October 30 November 1 |
O'Reilly Security Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| October 31 November 2 |
API Strategy & Practice Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
| November 3 | SFLC’s Fall Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| November 3 November 4 |
Linux Piter #3 | Saint-Petersburg, Russia |
| November 4 November 5 |
Sonoj Convention | Cologne, Germany |
| November 4 November 5 |
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit | Oslo, Norway |
| November 4 November 5 |
PyCon HK 2017 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| November 4 November 5 |
PyCon India 2017 | Delhi, India |
| November 4 November 5 |
OpenFest 2017 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| November 6 November 8 |
OpenStack Summit | Sydney, Australia |
| November 7 November 9 |
Cuban Free Technologies Conferences | Havana, Cuba |
| November 8 November 10 |
Netdev 2.2 | Seoul, South Korea |
| November 9 November 10 |
International Hacking & Information Security Conference | Bucharest, Romania |
| November 11 | Linux Developer Conference Brazil | São Paulo, Brazil |
| November 11 November 12 |
Intel® HPC Developer Conference | Denver, CO, USA |
| November 12 November 17 |
Supercomputing 17 | Denver, CO, USA |
| November 18 November 19 |
Technical Dutch Open Source Event | Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| November 18 November 19 |
Capitole du Libre 2017 | Toulouse, France |
| November 18 November 19 |
Toulouse mini-DebConf 2017 | Toulouse, France |
| November 21 November 24 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference 2017 | Nürnberg, Germany |
| November 23 November 26 |
Mini-DebConf | Cambridge, UK |
| November 28 November 30 |
7th RISC-V Workshop | Milpitas, CA, USA |
| December 2 | LinuxDay in Vorarlberg/Österreich | Dornbirn, Austria |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary September 28, 2017 to October 4, 2017
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201710-1 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201709-23 | ffmpeg2.8 | 2017-09-28 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201709-22 | nvidia | 2017-09-28 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201709-21 | openvpn | 2017-09-28 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201709-20 | weechat | 2017-09-26 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2838 | C6 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2836 | C7 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-03 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2831 | C6 | firefox | 2017-09-29 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2831 | C7 | firefox | 2017-09-29 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2795 | C6 | kernel | 2017-09-27 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2832 | C6 | nss | 2017-09-29 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2832 | C7 | nss | 2017-09-29 |
| Debian | DSA-3990-1 | stable | asterisk | 2017-10-03 |
| Debian | DSA-3985-1 | stable | chromium-browser | 2017-09-28 |
| Debian | DSA-3989-1 | stable | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1118-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2017-09-30 |
| Debian | DSA-3987-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2017-09-29 |
| Debian | DSA-3986-1 | stable | ghostscript | 2017-09-29 |
| Debian | DLA-1120-1 | LTS | git | 2017-10-02 |
| Debian | DSA-3988-1 | stable | libidn2-0 | 2017-09-30 |
| Debian | DLA-1117-1 | LTS | opencv | 2017-09-29 |
| Debian | DLA-1119-1 | LTS | otrs2 | 2017-09-30 |
| Debian | DLA-1116-1 | LTS | poppler | 2017-09-27 |
| Debian | DSA-3991-1 | stable | qemu | 2017-10-03 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-55b5527f23 | F26 | ejabberd | 2017-10-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-730e299c49 | F26 | firefox | 2017-10-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9b35152c83 | F26 | git | 2017-09-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-fa1d8ad61a | F25 | mercurial | 2017-09-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-cf9301d69e | F26 | mingw-LibRaw | 2017-10-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-c840f79347 | F25 | moodle | 2017-09-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9a452dc893 | F26 | moodle | 2017-09-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-700915e34f | F26 | openvpn | 2017-10-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-89492f7161 | F26 | perl | 2017-10-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7b4da5faba | F25 | php-horde-Horde-Image | 2017-09-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-4655504984 | F26 | php-horde-Horde-Image | 2017-09-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f14c38d58f | F25 | php-horde-nag | 2017-09-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-041ee90a8b | F26 | php-horde-nag | 2017-09-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9d14020761 | F25 | php-horde-passwd | 2017-09-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-51b91fc4a9 | F26 | php-horde-passwd | 2017-09-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-037e1b31a0 | F25 | php-horde-wicked | 2017-09-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-3ab0ac4a6a | F26 | php-horde-wicked | 2017-09-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-a424d7f124 | F25 | php-symfony-security-acl | 2017-10-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-4a1bc3476e | F26 | php-symfony-security-acl | 2017-10-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-ea57ed609f | F25 | pkgconf | 2017-09-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-b29d431ac7 | F26 | poppler | 2017-09-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7a9447c0af | F26 | pure-ftpd | 2017-09-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f7fd3fe7eb | F25 | xen | 2017-10-01 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2615-1 | 42.2 42.3 | Mozilla Firefox and NSS | 2017-10-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2633-1 | 42.2 42.3 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2594-1 | fmpeg | 2017-09-29 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2614-1 | 42.3 | git | 2017-10-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2639-1 | 42.2 42.3 | liblouis | 2017-10-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2638-1 | 42.2 42.3 | libraw | 2017-10-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2641-1 | 42.3 | nextcloud | 2017-10-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2632-1 | 42.2 42.3 | otrs | 2017-10-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2604-1 | 42.3 | spice | 2017-09-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2635-1 | 42.2 42.3 | tiff | 2017-10-03 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2597-1 | 42.2 | vlc | 2017-09-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2595-1 | 42.3 | vlc | 2017-09-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2607-1 | 42.2 42.3 | weechat | 2017-09-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2840 | OL5 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-03 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2838 | OL6 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2836 | OL7 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2831 | OL6 | firefox | 2017-09-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2831 | OL7 | firefox | 2017-09-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3626 | OL5 | kernel | 2017-09-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2795 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-09-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3626 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-09-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2832 | OL6 | nss | 2017-09-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2832 | OL7 | nss | 2017-09-28 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2840-01 | EL5 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2841-01 | EL5.9 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2838-01 | EL6 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2839-01 | EL6.2 EL6.4 EL6.5 EL6.6 EL6.7 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2836-01 | EL7 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2837-01 | EL7.2 EL7.3 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2831-01 | EL6 EL7 | firefox | 2017-09-28 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2832-01 | EL6 EL7 | nss | 2017-09-28 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2838-1 | SL6 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2836-1 | SL7 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2831-1 | SL6 SL7 | firefox | 2017-09-29 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2832-1 | SL6 SL7 | nss | 2017-09-29 |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-275-01 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-270-01 | gegl | 2017-09-27 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-271-01 | mozilla | 2017-09-28 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-274-01 | openexr | 2017-10-01 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2617-1 | SLE11 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2619-1 | SLE11 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2616-1 | SLE12 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2589-1 | OS6 SLE12 | firefox | 2017-09-28 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2611-1 | SLE11 | xen | 2017-10-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3432-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | ca-certificates | 2017-10-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3430-2 | 12.04 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-03 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3430-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | dnsmasq | 2017-10-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3435-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | firefox | 2017-10-03 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3434-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | libidn | 2017-10-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3431-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | nss | 2017-10-02 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3437-1 | 14.04 | ocaml | 2017-10-03 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3433-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | poppler | 2017-10-02 |
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Konstantin Khlebnikov
[PATCH RFC] mm: implement write-behind policy for sequential file
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