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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
| Time |
Event |
| 2:19p |
Fedora 19 Alpha released
The Fedora 19 alpha release is available for testers. "We need your help to make Fedora 19 the best release yet, so please
take a moment of your time to download and try out the Alpha and make
sure the things that are important to you are working." There is a
lot of new stuff in this release; see the announcement for an overview. | | 3:31p |
Villa: Why feed reading is an open web problem, and what browsers could do about it At his blog, Luis Villa muses on the topic of RSS and what can be learned from Google's decision to kill Google Reader. Villa contends that " the widely perceived failure of RSS is not really a failure of RSS, but rather a failure of the user experience of discovering and subscribing to RSS." In other words, Mozilla and other browser vendors have dropped the ball by not treating feeds as " a first-class web citizen," which helps walled-in, proprietary solutions like Facebook and Twitter. Solving the problem is not simple, he admits, but he does float the idea that browsers " provide a minimum viable product for light web users – possibly by supplementing the current 'here are your favorite sites' links with a clean, light reader focused on only the current top headlines." | | 4:23p |
Tuesday's security updates Debian has updated tinc (code
execution).
Mandriva has updated roundcubemail (ES 5.0; BS 1.0: cross-site scripting/file
disclosure) and mysql (multiple unspecified
vulnerabilities). | | 6:55p |
FSFE: German Parliament says: Stop Granting Software Patents
The Free Software Foundation Europe reports that the German Parliament has
adopted a joint motion against software patents. "In the resolution,
the Parliament says that patents on software restrict developers from
exercising their copyright privileges, including the right to distribute
their programs as Free Software. Patents help to create monopolies in the
software market, and hurt innovation and job creation. The Parliament calls
on the German government to make sure that Free Software development is not
restricted by patents." | | 9:45p |
[$] The 2013 Linux Filesystem, Storage, and Memory Management Summit The 2013
Linux Filesystem, Storage, and Memory Management Summit was held April 18 and 19 in San Francisco, California, immediately after the Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit. The first set of notes from that gathering is now available; at this point, we have most of the plenary sessions and the entire memory management track written up. The rest of our notes from the Summit will be added in the near future. |
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