Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

Time	Event
12:25a	[$] A NILFS2 score card A recurring theme in the comments on various articles announcing the new f2fs "flash-friendly" filesystem was that surely some other filesystem might already meet the need, or could be adjusted to meet the need, rather than creating yet another new filesystem. This is certainly an interesting question, but not one that is easy to answer. Neil Brown looks at the question of whether NILFS2 might be a candidate for a flash-focused filesystem in an article from this week's Kernel page. (Comment on this)
5:52p	Security advisories for Wednesday CentOS has updated kernel (C6: multiple vulnerabilities). Mageia has updated bacula (multiple vulnerabilities), otrs (cross-site scripting), tinyproxy (denial of service), webkit (multiple vulnerabilities), flash-player-plugin (multiple vulnerabilities) and opera (multiple vulnerabilities). Oracle has updated kernel (OL6: multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated kernel (RHEL6: multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (RHEL6.1 EUS: denial of service) and flash-plugin (multiple vulnerabilities). Scientific Linux has updated kernel (SL6: multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
6:40p	Raghavan: PulseConf 2012: Report Arun Raghavan provides a report from the recent PulseAudio miniconference in Copenhagen. "We started off with a broad topic — what each of our personal visions/goals for the project are. Interestingly, two main themes emerged: having the most seamless desktop user experience possible, and making sure we are well-suited to the embedded world." (Thanks to Paul Wise) (Comment on this)

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