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Thursday, November 8th, 2012

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    1:43a
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 8, 2012
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 8, 2012 is available.
    5:29p
    Security updates for Thursday

    Fedora has updated firefox (F16: multiple vulnerabilities), xulrunner (F16: multiple vulnerabilities), mcrypt (F16; F17: code execution), rt3 (F16; F17: multiple vulnerabilities), and thunderbird (F17: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated icedtea-web (OL6: code execution).

    Red Hat has updated icedtea-web (RHEL6: code execution)

    Scientific Linux has updated icedtea-web (SL6: code execution).

    SUSE has updated openstack-glance (access restriction bypass).

    Ubuntu has updated icedtea-web (code execution) and glance (12.04, 12.10: access control bypass).

    10:12p
    Seigo: ending the cults of personality in free software
    On his blog, Aaron Seigo has a thoughtful look at the role personality cults play in free software. Why should we worry about what Linus Torvalds runs on his desktop, he asks, as it is just one data point—one that gets hugely inflated because of who Torvalds is. "Let's step to the side and consider this from a different angle: Imagine that someone made Linus' perfect desktop environment. Something that satisfied him entirely and which he could happily talk about whenever he felt like it. Would that environment be interesting and useful for the general public, or would it be something great for kernel developers and grumpy-heads like Linus? It could go either way, really, because (once again) the fact that Linus liked it would not be useful information when held in isolation by itself."
    11:03p
    Fedora 18 now scheduled for January 2013
    The Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) decided to push the Fedora 18 beta back two weeks until November 27. That in turn pushes the full release until January 8 of next year. "Today at FESCo meeting [1] it was decided to slip Fedora 18
    Beta release by *two* weeks to give the Installer team,
    the new upgrade tool and Secure Boot time to finish and
    polish these features to meet our release quality standards.    " We looked at some of the problems facing Fedora 18 in this week's edition.

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