News: 0000839873

  ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Six new stable kernels

([Kernel] Dec 11, 2020 16:19 UTC (Fri) (jake))


The [1]5.9.14 , [2]5.4.83 , [3]4.19.163 , [4]4.14.212 , [5]4.9.248 , and [6]4.4.248 stable kernels have been released by Greg Kroah-Hartman. As usual, they contain important fixes throughout the tree; users should upgrade.



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/839874/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/839875/

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/839876/

[4] https://lwn.net/Articles/839877/

[5] https://lwn.net/Articles/839878/

[6] https://lwn.net/Articles/839879/

The Fastest Defeat In Chess
The big name for us in the world of chess is Gibaud, a French chess
master.
In Paris during 1924 he was beaten after only four moves by a
Monsieur Lazard. Happily for posterity, the moves are recorded and so
chess enthusiasts may reconstruct this magnificent collapse in the comfort
of their own homes.
Lazard was black and Gibaud white:
1: P-Q4, Kt-KB3
2: Kt-Q2, P-K4
3: PxP, Kt-Kt5
4: P-KR3, Kt-K6
White then resigns on realizing that a fifth move would involve
either a Q-KR5 check or the loss of his queen.
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"