Friday, August 23rd, 2013

Time	Event
3:20p	Friday's security updates CentOS has updated Xen4CentOS kernel (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated kernel (F19; F18: two vulnerabilities) and python-django (F19: cross-site scripting). Gentoo has updated acroread (many vulnerabilities) and dbus (denial of service). Mageia has updated libtiff (two code execution flaws), perl-Proc-ProcessTable (symlink flaw from 2011), python-django (cross-site scripting), python3 (two vulnerabilities), rubygem-passenger (M3: insecure tmpfile usage), spice (denial of service), and znc (M3: denial of service). Mandriva has updated perl-Proc-ProcessTable (symlink flaw from 2011), python-django (ES5: cross-site scripting), and spice (BS1: denial of service). openSUSE has updated cacti (12.2, 12.3: two vulnerabilities) and strongswan (11.4: denial of service). Oracle has updated kernel (OL5: multiple vulnerabilities). SUSE has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
3:25p	Calibre 1.0 released Version 1.0 of the Calibre electronic book management system has been released. "Lots of new features have been added to calibre in the last year — a grid view of book covers, a new, faster database backend, the ability to convert Microsoft Word files, tools to make changes to ebooks without needing to do a full conversion, full support for font embedding and subsetting, and many more." (Comment on this)
6:43p	More on Statistics (openSUSE blog) The openSUSE blog has an article with some in-depth statistics on the reach of the distribution. It includes various numbers and graphs on downloads, installations, the use of the Open Build Service, as well as a comparison with Fedora. "As you can see, Fedora has more downloads than openSUSE. Looking at the users, the situation is reverse: openSUSE has quite a bit more users than Fedora according to this measurement. How is this possible? The explanation is most likely that most openSUSE users upgrade with a 'zypper dup' command to the new releases, while Fedora users tend to do a fresh installation. Note that, like everybody else, we're very much aware of the deceptive nature of statistics: there is always room for mistakes in the analysis of data. To at least provide a way to detect errors and follow the commendable example set by Fedora, here are our data analysis scripts in github." (Comment on this)
7:51p	Balazs: KDE human interface guidelines: First steps On his blog, Björn Balazs writes about the recent effort to "reboot" the KDE human interface guidelines (HIG). There are three major sections in the HIG (structure, behavior, and presentation) and the team has a first draft of the behavior section. "We explicitly ask about your opinion. Please read the guidelines and make sure that the text is informative and comply with developers' requirements. The content should be both generic and comprehensive, and help to make KDE awesome. But we are also interested in support. If you are able to create nice sample UIs with Qt please contact the usability team via the kde-guidelines mailinglist." (Comment on this)
8:16p	Clasen: GNOME 3.10 sightings After releasing GNOME 3.9.90, which is the first beta of the 3.9 development branch, Matthias Clasen reflects on what is coming in GNOME 3.10. New features include a combined system status menu, some changes to control-center, the new Maps application, and more use of "header bars". "Our previous approach of hiding titlebars on maximized windows had the problem that there was no obvious way to close maximized windows, and the titlebars were still using up vertical space on non-maximized windows. Header bars address both of these issues, and pave the way to the Wayland future by being rendered on the client side." (Comment on this)

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