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Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

    Time Event
    8:54a
    [$] Current challenges in the free software ecosystem
    Given Eben Moglen's long association with the Free Software
    Foundation, his work on drafting the GPLv3, and his role as President and
    Executive Director of the Software Freedom Law Center, his
    talk at the 2013 Free Software Legal and Licensing
    Workshop promised to be thought-provoking. He chose to focus on two
    topics that he saw as particularly relevant for the free software ecosystem
    within the next five years: patents and the decline of copyleft licenses.
    2:51p
    Faure: Report from the freedesktop summit
    David Faure has posted a terse
    report     from the free desktop summit held April 8 in Nuremberg.
    "Perhaps most importantly we have come to agreement on a plan for
    improving the maintenance of freedesktop specifications going forward. One
    representative from each of GNOME, KDE and Unity will form a joint
    maintainer team. This team will monitor and participate in conversations on
    the xdg list and decide when consensus has been reached. The intention is
    to revive the usefulness of the xdg list as the primary point of
    communication between desktop projects.    "
    5:01p
    Security advisories for Wednesday
    CentOS has updated kernel (C5: multiple vulnerabilities) and krb5 (C6: denial of service).

    Mandriva has updated phpmyadmin (cross-site scripting).

    Oracle has updated krb5 (OL6: denial of service).

    Red Hat has updated kernel (RHEL6.2 EUS; RHEL5: multiple vulnerabilities) and krb5 (RHEL6: denial of service).

    Scientific Linux has updated krb5 (SL6: denial of service).

    Ubuntu has updated samba (12.04 LTS: multiple vulnerabilities).

    5:25p
    New stable kernels
    Greg KH has released stable kernels 3.8.8,
    3.4.41, and 3.0.74. All contain important fixes.
    10:35p
    [$] A taste of Rust
    Rust, the new programming language being developed by the Mozilla project, has a number of interesting features. One that stands out is the focus on safety. There are clear attempts to increase the range of errors that the compiler can detect and prevent, and thereby reduce the number of errors that end up in production code.

    Click below (subscribers only) for an overview of the Rust language by LWN contributor Neil Brown.

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