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Monday, October 22nd, 2012

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    4:07p
    Heilmann: Don’t call it “open source” unless you mean it

    On his blog, Christian Heilmann examines the gap between making a source repository public and maintaining a "real" open source project. "Several times during the talk he explained that he does have a job and that he has no time to answer every email. After all, there should be no need to ask questions or get support as the code is available and on Github and people could help each other and be happy that the code was released as open source. How come there was no magical community appearing out of nowhere that took care of all this?" Short answer: if you aren't interested in other people's patches, it's not really an open source project.

    6:11p
    Security advisories for Monday
    Debian has updated bind9 (denial of service) and tiff (code execution).

    Fedora has updated bind-dyndb-ldap (F17: denial of service), dhcp (F17: denial of service), bind (F17: denial of service), dnsperf (F17: denial of service), ruby (F17: unintended file creation) and mingw-libpng (off-by-one error).

    Gentoo has updated bash (multiple vulnerabilities), libav (multiple vulnerabilities) and chromium (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Mageia has updated x11-server (denial of service), openswan (multiple vulnerabilities), ghostscript (code execution), perl-html-template-pro (cross-site scripting) and dracut (information disclosure).

    Mandriva has updated hostapd (multiple vulnerabilities).

    openSUSE has updated claws-mail (denial of service), libproxy (buffer overflow) and chromium (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated oracle kernel (OL6; OL5: denial of service), oracle kernel (OL6; OL5: denial of service) and oracle kernel (OL5: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Scientific Linux has updated java (SL6: multiple vulnerabilities).

    6:21p
    Stable kernel 3.0.48
    Stable kernel 3.0.48 reverts one patch from
    3.0.47 that could cause problems. If 3.0.47 is working there's no need to
    update.

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