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Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
| Time |
Event |
| 1:07p |
PulseAudio 3.0 released Version 3.0 of the PulseAudio subsystem is out; see the
release notes for details. " The tl;dr version for the lazy is: easier setup when your device is a
Bluetooth source, some ARM NEON optimisations, configurable latency
offsets, ALSA UCM [use-case manager] support for embedded folks, and a
_lot_ of other fixes
and infrastructure changes." | | 5:08p |
Tuesday's security advisories Fedora has updated perl (F16: header
injection), perl-cgi (F16: header
injection) and kernel (F16: memory leak).
Ubuntu has updated apport (AppArmor
policy is too lenient). | | 6:08p |
Author Gabriella Coleman Expands on Role of Linux in Hacker Culture (Linux.com) Jennifer Cloer interviews
Gabriella Coleman about her new book Coding Freedom: The Ethics and
Aesthetics of Hacking. " To hack effectively requires the freedom to determine the shape, contour and direction of technological production. Freedom, in other words, is essential for quality. Sociologist Richard Sennet has has defined this drive in terms of “craftsmanship,” which is “an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake." It is not always easy to put this ethic into practice and open source hackers have figured out how to do so, using the right mix of law, tools and project governance to make it happen." | | 7:03p |
Status.net service to phase out, replaced by pump.io Evan Prodromou of StatusNet announced that the company's microblog-hosting service running at the status.net domain will close to new customers over the coming weeks, as the company begins migrating its offerings from the StatusNet software to it successor, the just-unveiled pump.io. User accounts on the existing sites running from the status.net domain will continue to function, as will the Identi.ca site. Self-hosted StatusNet instances will be unaffected by the move. | | 10:43p |
European Union's open source licence to become compatible with GPLv3 The European Union's open source license, EUPL, will
be revised to make it more compatible with GPLv3. The EUPL forum on Joinup is open for comments until mid-March 2013. " The main reason to update the licence is to remove barriers that could hinder others in the open source communities from using software licensed under the EUPL. "Making it explicitly compatible with the GPLv3 should increase interoperability", explains Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz, a Brussels-based legal specialist working involved in the drafting of the EUPL.
This should for instance make it easier to combine EUPL and GPLv3 software
components or to use both licences to publish a project, says Schmitz. "It
should also put an end to the categorisation by the Free Software
Foundation of the EUPL as not fully GPL compatible."" (Thanks to Martin Michlmayr) |
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