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| Michael Opdenacker has announced the availability of videosfrom this year's Embedded Linux Conference, which was held in San Francisco in April. The slides and Theora video are available for most, if not all, of the talks. Opdenacker and the Free Electrons team do the community a great service by doing the work to record and transcode the videos. "If you are interested in such talks, what about joining the European
edition of the conference? It will take place in Cambridge (UK), on
October 27-28, and will be colocated with the GStreamer conference
(October 26). See http://www.embeddedlinuxconference.com/elc_europe10/and http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conference/for details." |
| Embedded Linux Conference videos available |
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| Mandrivahas updated thunderbird(multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntuhas updated wget(arbitrary
code execution).
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| Thursday's security updates |
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| Tiago Vignatti has put together a reporton the development X.org 1.9. In the tradition of the kernel statistics reported on LWN, and the more recent GNOME census, he ranks developers and employers based on the number of changes made to various pieces of the X.org tree during the development of 1.9 (April 2 to August 20). The statistics are broken up along functional lines into several categories: X implementation, X input drivers, user space video drivers, Pixman, X11 conformance testing, and X documentation. "Of course lines of code and changeset are far from being a good metric to see actually how the development happened. But still, it does represents something." |
| Vignatti: X Census (for 1.9) |
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| The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 2, 2010 is available.
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| [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 2, 2010 |
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| On his blog, Harald Welte writesabout work he is doing as part of the gpl-violations.org project. "Right now I'm facing what I'd consider the most outrageous case that I've been involved so far: A manufacturer of Linux-based embedded devices (no, I will not name the company) really has the guts to go in front of court and sue another company for modifying the firmware on those devices. More specifically, the only modifications to program code are on the GPL licensed parts of the software. None of the proprietary userspace programs are touched! None of the proprietary programs are ever distributed either."If the manufacturer were to succeed with its claims, it could jeopardize many different projects that provide alternate code for devices, he says.
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| Welte: More GPL enforcement work again.. and a very surreal but important case |
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| Issue 21 of the GNOME Journalis
out; topics covered include simple real-time games, Grilo, and an interview
with Bradley Kuhn.
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| GNOME Journal Issue 21 released |
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| CentOShas updated C5: httpd(multiple vulnerabilities) and C5: kernel(privilege escalation).
Debianhas updated wireshark(arbitrary code execution).
Fedorahas updated socat(F13, F12:
arbitrary code execution).
Mandrivahas updated libgdiplus(arbitrary code execution), perl-libwww-perl(unexpected download
filename), and openssl(denial of
service).
openSUSEhas updated acroread(multiple vulnerabilities).
SUSEhas updated kernel(multiple
vulnerabilities) and acroread(multiple
vulnerabilities).
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| Security advisories for Wednesday |
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| On her blog, Máirín Duffy describesfour archetypes of Fedora users (Caroline Casual-User, Pamela Packager, Connie Community, and Nancy Ninja) and how they relate to updates of the distribution. Fedora has been discussing its update policy for a bit and Duffy uses the user stories to present her thoughts on how to proceed. "Pamela wants updates to be constant throughout a release, no holds barred — she wants the latest Gimp and she wants it yesterday. Caroline just wants her computer to work — "please don't change a thing — it worked yesterday — if it breaks before my presentation I'm screwed!"Can both their needs be met? I think so! But it’s easy to completely miss where interests and needs can both be met when the language is so easily interpreted to mean the problem is untenable." |
| Duffy: A story about updates and people |
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