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Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
| Time |
Event |
| 2:23p |
Kolab 3 released Kolab is a web-based "groupware" system with support for email, calendar management, task management, mobile device synchronization, and more. More than seven years after the Kolab 2 release, version
3.0 is available. It includes a new, Roundcube-based web client, better synchronization, and more. | | 3:15p |
Fedora 18 released The Fedora 18 release is out. " Fedora is a leading-edge, free and
open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features
to many users, with a new release about every six months...or so. :-D But
no bull: Spherical Cow, is of course, Fedora's best release yet. You'll go
through the hoof when you hear about the Grade A Prime F18
features." See the
release notes for details. | | 3:48p |
[$] The Grumpy Editor's Fedora 18 experience Delays in Fedora releases are a standard part of the development cycle; users would likely approach a hypothetical non-delayed release with a great deal of concern. Even so, the Fedora 18 release stands out: originally planned for November 6, 2012, it did not make its actual appearance until January 15 — more than two months later. So it was with some trepidation that your editor set out to install the final Fedora 18 release candidate on his laptop. With so many delays and problems, would this distribution release function well enough to get real work done? | | 7:04p |
Tuesday's security updates Fedora has updated rubygem-activerecord ( F18; F17; F16: sql injection), pl ( F18; F17; F16: code execution), thunderbird (F18: multiple vulnerabilities),
ca-certificates (F18: certificate removal),
kexec-tools (F18: exec on stack issue), and
389-ds-base (F16: ACL restriction bypass).
Fedora 16 will reach its end-of-support on
February 12, 2013.
Mageia has updated freeciv (denial
of service), inkscape (denial of service),
flash-player-plugin (code execution), and
iceape (multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated java-1.7.0-oracle (multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated nss (certificate
removal), nspr (certificate removal),
kernel (10.04 LTS; 11.10: denial of service/information leak),
and omap kernel (11.10: information leak). | | 9:30p |
Software Wars: A film about FOSS, collaboration, and software freedom (Opensource.com) Opensource.com has an interview with Keith
Curtis about a movie he is making, called Software Wars. " Because the movie is an explanation but also a critique of the existing world, this happily forces us to cover things that many technical people don't know. If they all knew what was in the movie, more crazy things would have happened. The trailer is a first attempt at achieving this balance. The final feature will be more polished in every regard. There are a mix of people working on this with different experiences and interests and together we will hammer it out." |
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