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Friday, March 22nd, 2013
| Time |
Event |
| 1:36p |
China to standardize on Ubuntu Canonical has announceda collaboration with the Chinese government to create a standard operating system reference architecture based on the Ubuntu distribution. " The
initial work of the CCN Joint Lab is focused on the development of an
enhanced version of the Ubuntu desktop with features specific to the
Chinese market. The new version is called Ubuntu Kylin and the first
version will be released in April 2013 in conjunction with Ubuntu’s global
release schedule. Future work will extend beyond the desktop to other
platforms." | | 1:49p |
Russell: GCC and C vs C++ Speed, Measured Rusty Russell ran an
investigation to determine whether code compiled with the GCC C++ compiler is slower than code from the C compiler. " With this in
mind, and Ian Taylor’s bold assertion that 'The C subset of C++ is as
efficient as C', I wanted to test what had changed with some actual
measurements. So I grabbed gcc 4.7.2 (the last release which could do
this), and built it with C and C++ compilers." His conclusion is that the speed of the compiler is the same regardless of how it was built; using C++ does not slow things down. | | 2:04p |
Blum: Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost Perhaps the best description and analysis of the unfortunate events at
PyCon can be found in this post from
Amanda Blum. In short, she concludes that everybody lost in this
incident.
Any comments posted should, please, have something new to say and
demonstrate the highest level of respect for others, whether or not you
agree with them.
See also: What
really happened at PyCon. | | 2:38p |
Friday's security updates
CentOS has updated boost (code
execution) and
qt (information disclosure).
Fedora has updated kernel
(multiple vulnerabilities), mediawiki (F17, F18;
session fixation flaw), perl
(denial of service), and privoxy (F17, F18;
proxy spoofing).
openSUSE has updated telepathy-gabble (denial of service).
Oracle has updated boost (code
execution) and
qt (information disclosure).
Red Hat has updated boost (code
execution), Django (multiple
vulnerabilities), openstack-cinder
(multiple vulnerabilities), openstack-nova (multiple
vulnerabilities), openstack-packstack
(insecure file handling), and qt
(information disclosure).
Scientific Linux has updated boost (code execution) and qt (information disclosure). | | 3:12p |
OpenSSH 6.2 released
OpenSSH 6.2 is out. New features include some new encryption modes, the
ability to require multiple authentication protocols (requiring both public
key and a password, for example), key revocation list support, better
seccomp-filter sandbox support, and more. | | 11:21p |
GCC 4.8.0 released The GCC 4.8.0 release is out. " Extending the widest support for hardware architectures in the industry,
GCC 4.8 has gained support for the upcoming 64-bit ARM instruction set
architecture, AArch64. GCC 4.8 also features support for Hardware
Transactional Memory on the upcoming Intel Haswell CPU
architecture." There's a lot of new stuff in this release; see the changes file and LWN's GCC 4.8.0 coverage for details. |
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