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Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
| Time |
Event |
| 12:52p |
[$] Connecting on the QUIC QUIC stands for "Quick UDP Internet
Connection." Like SPDY before
it, it is a Google-developed extension of an existing protocol designed
to reduce latency. But while SPDY worked at the application layer
(modifying HTTP by multiplexing multiple requests over one
connection), QUIC works at the transport layer. As the name
suggests, it implements a modification of UDP, but that does not tell
the whole story. In fact, it is more accurate to think of QUIC as a
replacement for TCP. It is intended to optimize connection-oriented
Internet applications, such as those that currently use TCP, but in
order to do so it needs to sidestep the existing TCP stack. | | 3:39p |
Seventy videos from Linaro Connect Europe 2013 (LinuxGizmos.com) LinuxGizmos.com has posted links
to videos of seventy sessions from the recently concluded Linaro Connect event in Dublin. " The sessions spanned a wide range of
topics, including Android, Builds and Baselines, Enterprise, Graphics and
Multimedia, Linux Kernel, Network, Project Management Tools, Training, and
more." | | 4:17p |
Security advisories for Wednesday CentOS has updated kernel (C6: multiple vulnerabilities).
openSUSE has updated cgit (directory traversal) and python-suds (symbolic link attack).
Oracle has updated kernel (OL6: multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated java-1.5.0-ibm (multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (RHEL6; RHOS3: multiple vulnerabilities), and openstack-keystone (authentication bypass).
Slackware has updated php (code execution).
Ubuntu has updated openjdk-7
(multiple vulnerabilities), libxml2 (fixes
a regression in a previous update), and icedtea-web (updated to work with the new
OpenJDK 7). | | 4:31p |
[$] On kernel mailing list behavior
As has been widely reported, the topic of conduct on kernel-related mailing
lists has, itself, been the topic of a heated discussion on the
linux-kernel mailing list. While numerous development communities have
established codes of conduct over the years, the kernel has never followed
suit. Might that situation be about to change? Your editor will attempt a
factual description of the discussion, followed by some analysis. | | 8:18p |
20 years of Slackware An interesting anniversary has just quietly slipped by: Slackware 1.0 was released on July 16 1993. Twenty years later, Slackware is quiet but far from dormant. Congratulations are due to what must certainly be the oldest still-maintained Linux distribution. |
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