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Thursday, November 1st, 2012
| Time |
Event |
| 12:49a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 1, 2012
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 1, 2012 is available. | | 2:49p |
Thursday's security updates
Debian has updated openoffice.org
(multiple code execution vulnerabilities).
Fedora has updated ssmtp (F17: no TLS
certificate validation).
Mandriva has updated java-1.6.0-openjdk (multiple vulnerabilities).
SUSE has updated firefox (multiple
vulnerabilities). | | 5:38p |
Linaro Enterprise Group announced Linaro has announced the formation of a group " to collaborate and accelerate the development of foundational software for ARM Server Linux". The Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG) consists of existing Linaro members ARM, Samsung, and ST-Ericsson, joined by new Linaro members AMD, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, Calxeda, Canonical, Cavium, Facebook, HP, Marvell, and Red Hat. " The team will build on Linaro’s experience of bringing competing companies together to work on common solutions and enable OEMs, commercial Linux providers and System on a Chip (SoC) vendors to collaborate in a neutral environment on the development and optimization of the core software needed by the rapidly emerging market for low-power hyperscale servers." One would guess that the choice of LEG for the name of an ARM group was not entirely arbitrary. | | 9:34p |
Fedora 18 Beta slips again
The Fedora Project has decided to slip the Fedora 18 beta release again.
Interestingly, the final release date remains December 11, since there
is resistance to pushing it closer to the holiday season. Meanwhile, there
is an ongoing discussion on the fedora-devel list, the gist of which is
that a number of developers think that rather more time is required
to get this release into shape. | | 9:53p |
Seeking Enlightenment (The H) The H interviews Carsten "Rasterman" Haitzler, leader of the Enlightenment project, about the desktop and its future. " The biggest thing E17 brings to the table is universal compositing. This means you can use a composited desktop without any GPU acceleration at all, and use it nicely. We don't rely on software fallback implementations of OpenGL. We literally have a specific software engine that is so fast that some developers spent weeks using it accidentally, not realising they had software compositing on their setup. E17 will fall back to software compositing automatically if OpenGL acceleration doesn't work. It is that good. It even works very nicely on an old Pentium-M @ 600Mhz with zero accelerated rendering support." (Thanks to Tom Arnold.) |
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