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Stable kernel 5.9.4

([Kernel] Nov 4, 2020 21:31 UTC (Wed) (ris))


Greg Kroah-Hartman has released stable kernel [1]5.9.4 . " This is only a bugfix for the 5.9.3 kernel release which had some problems with some symlinks for the powerpc selftests. " If you did not have any issues with 5.9.3 there is no need to upgrade.



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/836158/

Typo in the subject

The subject says 5.4.9, I believe it should be 5.9.4.

Typo in the subject

The subject says 5.4.9, I believe it should be 5.9.4.

If science were explained to the average person in a way that is accessible
and exciting, there would be no room for pseudoscience. But there is a kind
of Gresham's Law by which in popular culture the bad science drives out the
good. And for this I think we have to blame, first, the scientific community
ourselves for not doing a better job of popularizing science, and second, the
media, which are in this respect almost uniformly dreadful. Every newspaper
in America has a daily astrology column. How many have even a weekly
astronomy column? And I believe it is also the fault of the educational
system. We do not teach how to think. This is a very serious failure that
may even, in a world rigged with 60,000 nuclear weapons, compromise the human
future.
-- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer,
Vol. 12, Fall 87