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Friday, October 12th, 2012
| Time |
Event |
| 12:45a |
The story of Nokia MeeGo (TaskuMuro) TaskuMuro has a lengthy history of Maemo and MeeGo, translated from the Finnish version at Muropaketti. It looks at the various devices Nokia created, starting with N770 in 2005 and continues through the concept devices that were under development up until Nokia pulled the plug on MeeGo. " The Harmattan UI was originally based on the Activity Theory principle, a frame of reference for studying human behavior and development processes. The goal is to understand society, personality and, most importantly, how these two are connected. The theory was originally developed by the Russian psychologist Vygotsky.
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The aim was to utilize information on how people combine tasks and communicate with each other, and thus support these ways of working instead of forcing people to adopt technology-based working models. The system would adapt to the way the user interacts eith it, to ensure reciprocated interaction." (Thanks to Jussi Saarinen.) | | 12:55p |
Firefox 16 re-released fixing multiple vulnerabilities (The H) Mozilla has now released version 16.0.1 of Firefox, fixing the security hole discovered October 10 in Firefox 16, as well as a few other incidental issues. The H has a brief recap of the situation, including availability of the corresponding update for other Mozilla products. | | 5:55p |
Friday's security updates
CentOS has updated libvirt (denial of service).
Fedora has updated cxf (F17; multiple vulnerabilities), firefox (F16, F17; information disclosure), and xulrunner (F16, F17; information disclosure).
Mandriva has updated bacula (information disclosure) and graphicsmagick (denial of service).
openSUSE has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).
Oracle has updated libvirt (denial of service).
Slackware has updated mozilla-firefox (information disclosure) and mozilla-thunderbird (information disclosure).
Ubuntu has updated firefox (information disclosure), kernel (10.04, 11.10; multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (12.04; privilege escalation), and kernel (11.10 OMAP4; denial of service). | | 9:22p |
Zemlin: The Next Battleground for Open vs. Closed? Your Car (Wired) Wired features an editorial from Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin, who writes about the emerging competition in the automotive software platform market. "As automakers get into the computing business, the biggest hurdle they have to overcome isn’t each other – it’s consumer expectations driven by the rise of ubiquitous mobile computing. This is where I’d argue the battle between open and closed is going to play out the hardest in coming years … the next OS wars." As one would expect, Zemlin highlights the benefits of openness, and Linux in particular. | | 11:35p |
A bundle of stable kernels Greg KH has released the 3.0.46, 3.4.14, 3.5.7 and 3.6.2 stable kernel updates. Notably, 3.5.7 marks the last release in the 3.5.y series, and moving to the 3.6 branch is recommended. |
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