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Friday, January 25th, 2013

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    12:18a
    Bacon: Community Driven Ubuntu Phone Core Apps
    On his blog, Jono Bacon describes the Ubuntu Phone core apps development process while also soliciting volunteers to help on the design side. "So, we have a good set of developers assigned for each app, but we would like to invite our community to contribute design ideas for each of these apps. We have already defined a set of user stories and functional requirements, and for each app we have also defined a set of the core screens and functionality that we will need design for. We would like to invite you wonderful designers out there to contribute your design ideas, and these ideas can provide food for thought for the developers." The "core" apps are things like calendar, clock, calculator, email client, document viewer, social media apps, and so on.
    3:10p
    Clasen: GNOME 3.7 at the halfway mark
    Matthias Clasen previews
    the changes in GNOME 3.8    . "Allowing you to focus on your task
    and minimizing interruptions has been an important aspect of the GNOME 3
    design from the start. So far, we just had a global switch to turn off
    notifications. The new Notification panel expands on this and allows
    fine-grained control over what applications get to annoy you, and how
    much.    "
    4:28p
    Security advisories for Friday

    Debian has updated ircd-ratbox (denial of service).

    Fedora has updated perl (F16: code execution), qt (F16: incorrect certificate verification error reporting), bacula (access restriction bypass), samba4 (F17: privilege escalation), rubygem-multi_xml (F18: code execution), and kernel (F17: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Mageia has updated kernel-rt (M2: multiple vulnerabilities), snack (M2: code execution), java-1.7.0-openjdk (M2: sandbox bypass), and mariadb (M2: code execution).

    openSUSE has updated java-1_7_0-openjdk (multiple vulnerabilities).

    6:22p
    Open source game, [d0x3d!], teaches security concepts and is fun to play (opensource.com)
    Over at opensource.com, Davis Miller writes about an open source tabletop game (available at Github) that teaches some of the ideas behind network security. "While you seek these valuable digital assets, the network administrators respond by patching all compromised machines, raising an alarm, and sometimes changing the very topology to derail your movements. You and your team work together diligently, checking and raiding machines on the network, trying to not alert the network administrators of your presence. If the administrators feel threatened by any of the activity they see on a network, they'll take your stolen personal data and release it to the Internet. In other words, you'll get d0x3d!!"
    10:32p
    Linux Plumbers Conference CFP
    The 2013 Linux Plumbers Conference will be held September 18-20 in New
    Orleans. The conference has just announced
    its call for participation. "There are two ways for individuals to
    participate in the conference: by submitting a refereed track presentation,
    or proposing/running a microconference. Refereed track presentations are
    traditional presentation-format sessions. A Microconference is a
    collection of collaborative sessions focused on a particular area of the
    kernel plumbing. Note that this year, refereed track presentations will be
    shared with LinuxCon North America on a single overlapping day that will be
    available to attendees at both conferences.    " See the "participate"
    page     for details; submissions are due by June 17.

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