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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
| Time |
Event |
| 1:31a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 25, 2012
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 25, 2012 is available. | | 2:52p |
Security advisories for Thursday
Fedora has updated seamonkey (F16; F17:
multiple vulnerabilities).
SUSE has updated java-1.6.0-openjdk
(SLE11SP2: multiple vulnerabilities) and qemu (SLE10SP4: privilege escalation).
Ubuntu has updated python3.1 (10.04,
11.04: multiple vulnerabilities). | | 3:21p |
Motif relicensed The venerable Motif graphical toolkit has been relicensed to LGPLv2.1; the code is now hosted on
SourceForge. Most of the world is unlikely to care much, but, as they say, better 20 years too late than never. | | 9:42p |
Haley: We're doing an ARM64 OpenJDK port! We're a bit late in noticing, but Andrew Haley has announced plans to develop a free Java for 64-bit ARM systems. " There are two versions of HotSpot, the VM that OpenJDK uses, for the
current (32-bit) ARM. The one written and owned by Oracle is
proprietary, and the other (written for ARM) is free. The proprietary
VM performs better than the free one. The latter uses a lightweight
small-footprint just-in-time compiler that can't compete with the
might of Oracle's JIT. We really don't want this situation for A64,
so we're writing a port that will be entirely free software. We'll
submit this as an OpenJDK project, and we hope that others will join
us in the work." | | 10:09p |
Airlie: raspberry pi drivers are NOT useful Kernel graphics maintainer Dave Airlie is rather unimpressed with the Raspberry Pi driver release; it is not something that will ever be merged. " Why is this bad?
You cannot make any improvements to their GLES implementation, you cannot add any new extensions, you can't fix any bugs, you can't do anything with it. You can't write a Mesa/Gallium driver for it. In other words you just can't." |
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