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Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
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| 2:21p |
Perl: The First Twenty-Five Years The Perl Foundation News has posted a
detailed history of the first 25 years of the Perl language. " Before the advent of Perl 5 the resources for collecting these
scripts were few and far between, and one or two have fallen into legend
and are now taken out by wizened Perlers around a flickering light where
the Tales of Terror are shared and Matt's Script Archive comes into its
own magnificent glory. In these Enlightened days it is easy to mock those
early pioneers and to smile fondly at some of the erroneous efforts, but
they were the only resource of their time and they were formative in the
evolution." | | 4:42p |
CyanogenMod 10.1 nightly builds available We recently complained that CyanogenMod
builds based on the Android 4.2 release were not available for most
devices, meaning
that CyanogenMod lacked features found in stock Android builds. So it
seems only fair to point out that the CyanogenMod nightly builds page now
includes CM10.1-based (and, thus, Android 4.2-based) builds for a wide
variety of targets. CM10.1 works well on the Nexus 7 tablet, with no
real problems found so far.
(Just be sure to install updated
Google Apps as well or things will not go well...not that your editor
would ever make such a mistake.) | | 6:10p |
Security updates for Wednesday CentOS has updated libtiff ( C5; C6:
multiple code execution vulnerabilities) and kernel (C6: multiple vulnerabilities).
Fedora has updated firefox (F16:
multiple vulnerabilities), thunderbird
(F16: multiple vulnerabilities), xulrunner
(F16: multiple vulnerabilities), thunderbird-enigmail (F16: multiple
vulnerabilities), thunderbird-lightning
(F16: multiple vulnerabilities), tomcat
(F16: multiple vulnerabilities) and rssh
(F17: multiple vulnerabilities).
Mandriva has updated python-django
(information disclosure).
Oracle has updated libtiff (OL6; OL5:
multiple code execution vulnerabilities) and kernel (OL6: multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated kernel (RHEL6:
multiple vulnerabilities), kernel
(RHEL6.1 EUS: unfiltered netdev rio_ioctl access by users) and libtiff (multiple code execution
vulnerabilities).
Scientific Linux has updated kernel
(SL6: multiple vulnerabilities) and libtiff
(multiple code execution vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated kernel (12.04 LTS; 12.10: denial of service), OMAP4 kernel
(12.04 LTS; 12.10: denial of service), libav (11.10: multiple vulnerabilities), ffmpeg (10.04 LTS: multiple
vulnerabilities). | | 7:05p |
Qt 5.0 released Digia, the current owner of the Qt code base, has sent out a
press release announcing the Qt 5.0 release. " Key benefits
of Qt 5 include: graphics quality; performance on constrained hardware;
cross-platform portability; support for C++11; HTML5 support with QtWebKit
2; a vastly improved QML engine with new APIs; ease of use and
compatibility with Qt 4 versions." | | 8:00p |
Women in computing: An interview with Leslie Hawthorn (opensource.com) Opensource.com has an interview
with Leslie Hawthorn about the 2012 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference. " This has been the 3rd year that I've been involved in the Grace Hopper conference. Three years ago, in Atlanta, we had a group of folks come together and decided that it was kind of a bummer that there wasn't a lot of open source related content on the program. So, we got together a program committee and put on a full day of tracks related to contributing to open source software—everything from how you get started as a contributor to different projects you may wish to join, and how to get involved in open source if you're a student (from an academic point of view, how working in open source can enhance your career prospects)." | | 8:01p |
PC-BSD 9.1 Now Available The PC-BSD team has announcedthat PC-BSD 9.1 is now available. " This release includes many exciting new features and enhancements, such as a vastly improved system installer, ZFS “Boot Environment” support, TrueOS (A FreeBSD based server with additional power-user utilities), and much more!" | | 10:49p |
Vernooij: Bazaar-NG: 7 years of hacking on a distributed version control system At his blog, Jelmer Vernooij has written a detailed retrospective on the history of the Bazaar version control system, including a lot of analysis of the project's ups and downs over the years. "We just made these changes to the file format as they came along, rather than accumulating them. This meant that at one point there was a new format every couple of months. Later on, we did slow down on format changes and no new format has been introduced since 2009. Unfortunately we have been unable to shake the image that we introduce a new file format every fortnight." | | 11:44p |
[$] A preview of Inkscape 0.49 The Inkscape vector graphics
editor is approaching its next milestone release, version 0.49. As
always, the update rolls together a wealth of new tools and features.
This development cycle is relatively light on large-scale additions,
but there is a long list of small usability enhancements that will add
up to a smoother design experience for most users. |
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