Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 19, 2019
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Fedora and optical media testing: is it time for Fedora to start leaving optical-media installation behind?
- One million ought to be enough for anybody: a proposal for arbitrary limits on several Python parameters.
- Buffered I/O without page-cache thrashing: combining the convenience of buffered I/O with the performance of direct I/O.
- Explicit pinning of user-space pages: another baby step toward a solution to the problems with get_user_pages().
- A year-end wrap-up from LWN: reviewing our January predictions and closing out the year.
This week's edition also includes these inner pages:
- Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
This is the final LWN.net Weekly Edition for 2019; as usual, we will be taking the last week of the year off to recuperate and get ready for 2020. The Weekly Edition will return on January 2; we wish all of our readers a great holiday season and a happy new year.
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