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| Feb 4 2012 6:57am | The end of LinuxDevices? |
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| LinuxDevices.com is carrying a brief note from the "outgoing editor-in-chief" stating that the site's owner has been acquired. "At this point, the future of LinuxDevices.com is uncertain. What we can say for sure is that it has been a pleasure servi... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 6:52am | Slackware updates |
| Slackware has been silent for some time (noted in this comment thread). Although we haven't seen any advisories in the LWN mailbox, the changelogs are showing some new updates. Slackware users should update their systems.... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 6:21am | Stable kernels 3.0.19, 3.2.3 and 2.6.32.56 |
| Greg KH has released stable kernels 3.0.19, 3.2.3 and 2.6.32.56. All of them have important fixes across the board. Update 3.2.4 has now been released to address a compilation problem in 3.2.3.... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 5:34am | Friday's security updates |
| CentOS has updated ghostscript (C6; C5; C4: multiple vulnerabilities), php (C6; C5; C4: remote code execution), and C5: php53 (remote code execution). Debian has updated iceweasel (multiple vulnerabilities), iceape (multiple vulnerabilities), and ph... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 9:26am | PHP 5.3.10 released with critical security fix |
| The PHP 5.3.10 release is out; it contains a fix for a remote code execution bug introduced recently by another security fix. Anybody running 5.3.9 should probably upgrade as soon as possible.... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 9:12am | Critical PHP vulnerability being fixed (The H) |
| The H is reporting that a critical remote code execution bug has been found in PHP that was caused by the recent fix for the widespread denial of service via hash collisions vulnerability. "The cause of the problem is the security update to PHP 5.3.9... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 7:25am | Security advisories for Thursday |
| CentOS has updated openssl (C4: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated tomcat6 (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated BackupPC (F15; F16: cross-site scripting), polipo (F15; F16: denial of service), moodle (F15; F16: multiple vul... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 6:29am | Seigo: Spark answers |
| Aaron Seigo answers questions about the Spark tablet, which is based on Plasma Active, that he announced on January 29. There is more information about the hardware and software, delivery timeframe (May 2012), and pre-orders: "Pre-order registration... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 4:51am | Gettys: Bufferbloat demonstration videos |
| Jim Gettys says: "If people have heard of bufferbloat at all, it is usually just an abstraction despite having personal experience with it. Bufferbloat can occur in your operating system, your home router, your broadband gear, wireless, and almost an... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 12:26pm | [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 2, 2012 |
| The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 2, 2012 is available.... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 5:52am | Kuhn: Some Thoughts on Conservancy's GPL Enforcement |
| Bradley Kuhn has posted a lengthy explanation of the Software Freedom Conservancy's GPL enforcement activities and the demands they make. "I started using this request regularly around 2002 because violators express a concern that, if they came into... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 5:13am | The Document Foundation will be based in Berlin |
| The Document Foundation has announced that its long-awaited legal entity will be based in Berlin. "'After many months of work in close cooperation with the authorities, we were able to keep the spirit of the community bylaws, and incorporate them in... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 5:10am | Wednesday's security update |
| CentOS has updated thunderbird (C4, C5, C6: multiple vulnerabilities), firefox (C4, C5, C6: multiple vulnerabilities) and seamonkey (C4: multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated smokeping (F15, F16: cross-site scripting), krb5 (F15: denial of... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 3:26am | [$] A tempest in a toybox |
| The eLinux.org web site is currently promoting a project to write a replacement for Busybox under a permissive license. Normally, the writing of more free software is seen as a good thing, but, in this case, there have been complaints about the perc... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 2:13am | Apache HTTP Server 2.2.22 released |
| Version 2.2.22 of the Apache web server is out. The main point of this release appears to be the fixing of six different CVE numbers, so people with their own Apache builds probably want to grab the update.... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 1:48am | Almost There - PyPy's ARM Backend |
| The PyPy Status Blog has an update on the status of the PyPy port to the ARM architecture. "The current results on ARM, as shown in the graph below, show that the JIT currently gives a speedup of about 3.5 times compared to CPython on ARM. The benchm... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 1:11am | Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation |
| The Linux Foundation has announced that Greg Kroah-Hartman has joined the organization as a fellow. "In his role as Linux Foundation Fellow, Kroah-Hartman will continue his work as the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of s... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 9:51am | Kernel prepatch 3.3-rc2 |
| The 3.3-rc2 prepatch is out, a little later than would have ordinarily been expected. "The diffstat is pretty flat - indicative of mostly small changes spread out. Which is what I like seeing, and we don't always see at this point. There's some file... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 7:54am | FOSDEM speaker interviews |
| The last set of interviews with FOSDEM speakers has been released. This list includes Juan David Gonzalez Cobas and Javier Serrano (open hardware), Bryan Østergaard (community management), Ben Klang (Adhearsion), Soren Hansen (monitoring), Kristian... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 6:35am | Security advisories for Tuesday |
| CentOS has updated C6: ruby (denial of service), ruby (C5;C4: denial of service/predictable random numbers), C6: t1lib (multiple vulnerabilities), C6: openssl (multiple vulnerabilities), C6: glibc (denial of service), and C4: php (multiple vulnerabil... more |


