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Thursday May 24, 2012. 03:24 AM
Wednesday May 23, 2012. 08:22 PM
Groklaw has the news: the jury in Oracle v. Google has found that Google did not infringe any of Oracle's patents.
The H covers an announcement by the Open Source Initiative that Simon Phipps is the new president of the organization. 'Phipps has already been spearheading an OSI reform process, working with the rest of the board to open up the organisation. That process has led to the...
Mandriva has updated 2011.0: wireshark (denial of service). Oracle has updated postgresql, postgresql84 (OL6; OL5: multiple vulnerabilities), OL5: postgresql (multiple vulnerabilities), OL5: kvm (multiple vulnerabilities), and OL6: bind-dyndb-ldap (denial of service). Red...
Version 3.1 of the LLVM compiler suite is out. 'This release represents approximately 6 months of development over LLVM 3.0, delivers a vast range of improvements and new features. Some of the most visible features include greatly expanded C++'11 support in Clang (including...
For those interested in complex exploits: the Chromium Blog describes how a sequence of six independent bugs was exploited to execute code within the Chromium browser. 'Even though Chrome’s renderers execute inside a stricter sandbox than the GPU process, there is a...
Tuesday May 22, 2012. 11:10 PM
Mageia 2 has been released. 'Mageia 2 is available as Live CDs, install DVDs and a netinstall CD, and is available in various languages for easy download, from FTP, HTTP, or torrents.' The release notes are here. LWN previewed this release last April.
Paul Gortmaker has released stable kernel 2.6.34.12. If you are running a 2.6.34.x kernel you'll want this release.
<img src=" width=125 height=93 alt="[uTouch diagram]" border=0 hspace=3 align="right"> As the Linux desktop increases in popularity, the user interface experience has become increasingly important. For example, most laptops today have multitouch capabilities that have yet to...
CentOS has updated C5: kvm (multiple vulnerabilities), C5: postgresql (multiple vulnerabilities), C5: postgresql84 (multiple vulnerabilities), C6: postgresql (multiple vulnerabilities), and C6: bind-dyndb-ldap (denial of service). Fedora has updated perl-config-inifiles...
Version 4 of the ownCloud 'personal cloud' system is out. 'ownCloud 4 – built through active community support – adds innovative features like file versioning, – which actively saves files, allowing users to “rollback” to previous versions – and a new API —...
Tim Waugh has announced (on May 10) the existence of the printerd project, meant to be a new print spooling subsystem for Linux. 'It is a polkit-enabled D-Bus system service, written using the GLib object system. Although modeled on concepts from IPP (Internet Printing...
Monday May 21, 2012. 11:15 PM
Greg KH has released stable kernels 3.0.32 and 3.3.7. Both contain lots of important fixes.
Version 6 of the nmap network scanner is out. 'It includes a more powerful Nmap Scripting Engine, 289 new scripts, better web scanning, full IPv6 support, the Nping packet prober, faster scans, and much more.' See the release notes for details.
Debian has updated pidgin-otr (format string vulnerability) and sympa (authorization bypass). Fedora has updated apache-poi (F16; F15: denial of service), rubygen-mail (F16; F15: arbitrary command execution), rubygem-actionmailer (F16; F15: arbitrary command execution),...
The O'Reilly Community site has a review of the Rosa 2012 Marathon distribution. 'The ROSA Labs developers have done an excellent job in creating a polished, functional distribution which is stable, reliable, and performs well. The desktop design is intuitive and user...
The Perl 5.16.0 release is out. 'Perl 5.16.0 represents approximately 12 months of development since Perl 5.14.0 and contains approximately 590,000 lines of changes across 2,500 files from 139 authors.' See this article for an overview of what's new in this release.
Linus has released the 3.4 kernel. Significant features in this release include the Yama security module, support for the x32 ABI, asymmetric multiprocessing support, the dm-verity device mapper target, and more. For details, see the always-excellent KernelNewbies 3.4 page.
Saturday May 19, 2012. 12:19 AM
Michael Larabel at Phoronix explores how the X.org developer community is grappling with its patch-review process. ''David Airlie commented on the developers' mailing list about the lack of patch review for the new API patches, he wonders how he's 'going to get the next 50...
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