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Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
| Time |
Event |
| 12:27a |
U-Boot Creator Wolfgang Denk on the Great Achievements of Embedded Linux (Linux.com) Linux.com interviews Wolfgang Denk, creator of the U-Boot bootloader, about two great things that embedded Linux has achieved: abstracting away hardware differences for application developers and the rapid adoption of the Yocto project. " But the really dramatic changes do not happen in Linux, but in the hardware. If you consider the landslide-like move from Power Architecture to ARM systems in the last two or three years it is highly notable that this happened without disconcertment for both developers and users: thanks to Linux, the low level hardware details are well abstracted away, and on application level it does not really matter at all which exact architecture or SoC you are working with. This is really a great achievement." | | 6:35p |
Security advisories for Wednesday CentOS has updated kernel (C6:
multiple vulnerabilities).
Fedora has a big KDE update for F18, fixing a flaw in the way
PasteMacroExpander performs password generation. The following packages
have been updated: audiocd-kio, analitza, bovo, bomber,
blinken, kdeplasma-addons, ark, cantor,
dragon, filelight, gwenview, juk,
granatier, kajongg, kalgebra, kamera, kalzium, kanagram, kapman, kate,
kblackbox, kaccessible, kactivities, katomic, jovie, kblocks, kbreakout, kbounce, kbrunch, kcalc, kcharselect, kcolorchooser, kdeartwork, kde-baseapps, kdeadmin, kdeaccessibility, kde-base-artwork, kdeedu, kdebindings, kdegraphics, kdegames, kdegraphics-mobipocket, kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer, kdenetwork, kde-l10n, kdemultimedia, kdegraphics-thumbnailers, kdelibs, kdepim, kde-print-manager, kdepim-runtime, kdesdk, kdeutils, kde-wallpapers, kde-workspace, kdetoys, kfloppy, kdf,
kde-runtime, kfourinline, kdiamond, kgeography, kgamma, kgoldrunner, kgpg, killbots, kiriki, kigo,
kig, khangman, kjumpingcube, kiten, klickety, klines, klettres, kimono, kmag,
kmahjongg, kmines, kmix,
kmousetool, kmplot, kmouth, knetwalk, kolf, knavalbattle, kollision, konquest, kolourpaint, kremotecontrol, kreversi, kruler, ksameplugin, kscd, kross-interpreters, konsole, kshisen, kpat,
ksnakeduel, ksirk, kspaceduel, ksnapshot, ksudoku, ksquares, kstars, ktouch, ktimer, kturtle, ktuberling, kwallet, kubrick, kwordquiz, libkcddb, libkdegames, libkexiv2, libkipi, libkmahjongg, lskat, nepomuk-core, marble, libksane, nepomuk-widgets, libkdcraw, libkcompactdisc, libkdeedu, okular, palapeli, oxygen-icon-theme, pairs, parley,
pykde4, smokegen, ruby-qt, smokekde, ruby-korundum, smokeqt, picmi, qyoto,
rocs, step,
superkaramba, svgpart, sweeper, and kdepimlibs.
Mandriva has updated wireshark
(multiple vulnerabilities).
Oracle has updated kernel (OL6:
multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated flash-plugin
(code execution).
Ubuntu has updated php5 (13.04: code
execution) and telepathy-gabble (denial of
service/man-in-the-middle attack). | | 6:48p |
FSFE: German Parliament tells government to strictly limit patents on software
The Free Software Foundation Europe reports that the German Parliament
decided upon a joint motion to limit software patents. "The
Parliament urges the German Government to take steps to limit
the granting of patents on computer programs. Software should
exclusively be covered by copyright, and the rights of the copyright
holders should not be devalued by third parties' software patents. The
only exception where patents should be allowed are computer programs
which replace a mechanical or electromagnetic component. In addition the
Parliament made clear that governmental actions related to patents must
never interfere with the legality of distributing Free Software." |
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