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Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
| Time |
Event |
| 12:50p |
Groklaw shutting down, again Groklaw founder Pamela Jones has announcedthat the site is shutting down in response to pervasive Internet surveillance. " What to do? I've spent the last couple of weeks
trying to figure it out. And the conclusion I've reached is that there is
no way to continue doing Groklaw, not long term, which is incredibly
sad. But it's good to be realistic. And the simple truth is, no matter how
good the motives might be for collecting and screening everything we say to
one another, and no matter how "clean" we all are ourselves from the
standpont of the screeners, I don't know how to function in such an
atmosphere. I don't know how to do Groklaw like this." (Groklaw's previous
shutdown was in 2011). | | 2:10p |
Open Source Mobile OS: The Four Contenders (TechWeek Europe) TechWeek Europe has a
survey of open-source mobile operating systems competing with Android. " For Intel, Tizen represents another avenue into the mobile space
where smartphones and tablets are completely dominated by ARM-based chips,
while Samsung merely wants to reduce its dependency on Android – something
that in the past has led it to dabble with Windows Phone handsets in the
past. Tizen looks like another back-up option for Samsung, but its efforts
have gained credibility since it merged its in-house OS Bada with Tizen. If
it goes with a different OS besides Android, Tizen would be it." | | 4:04p |
| | 4:14p |
Stable kernel updates Greg KH has released stable kernels 3.10.8, 3.4.59, and 3.0.92. All contain important fixes. | | 4:21p |
Firefox 23.0.1 released Firefox 23.0.1 has been released. This version enables mixed content blocking along with other updates and bug fixes. The release
notes contain additional information. | | 9:09p |
Stable kernel 3.0.93 Stable kernel 3.0.93 has been released, reverting one problem patch in 3.0.92. " If you don't use
networking, you should be fine, no need to upgrade from 3.0.92 :)" | | 10:48p |
[$] The return of nftables
Some ideas take longer than others to find their way into the mainline
kernel. The network firewalling mechanism known as "nftables" would
be a case in point. Much of this work was done in 2009; despite showing
a lot of promise at the time, the work languished for years afterward.
But, now, there would appear to be a critical mass of developers working on
nftables, and we may well see it merged in the relatively near future. | | 11:15p |
Stable kernel 3.10.9 Stable kernel 3.10.9 has been released, reverting the same problem patch that was in the 3.0 series. If you don't use networking there's no need to update. |
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