Monday, October 7th, 2013

Time	Event
2:44p	Want to run the Linux Plumbers Conference in 2014? The Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board is currently accepting applications from groups wishing to organize the 2014 Linux Plumber's Conference; the current plan is to co-locate that conference with LinuxCon Europe in Düsseldorf, Germany, but hosting it in Chicago with LinuxCon North America is also a possibility. See this page for information about out to put together a bid; the deadline is November 3. (Comment on this)
4:43p	Security advisories for Monday Debian has updated icedtea-web (code execution). Fedora has updated xen (F18; F19: information leak). Gentoo has updated aircrack-ng (code execution), gegl (code execution), isync (information disclosure), nginx (multiple vulnerabilities), and poppler (multiple vulnerabilities). Mageia has updated libvirt (multiple vulnerabilities), openjpa (code execution), polkit (multiple vulnerabilities), and proftpd (denial of service). openSUSE has updated gpg2 (12.2: information disclosure) and systemd (12.2; 12.3: privilege escalation). (Comment on this)
5:41p	White paper: the economic value of the Long Term Support Initiative The Linux Foundation has announced the availability of a white paper (registration required) estimating the economic value of the Long Term Support Initiative, an effort which supports stable kernel releases for the consumer electronics industry. The resulting value is about $3 million per release. "LTSI is important because device makers are doing significant back-porting, bug testing and driver development on their own, which carries substantial cost in terms of time-to-market, as well as development and engineering effort to maintain those custom kernels. Through collaboration in this initiative, these CE vendors are reducing the duplication of effort currently prevalent in the consumer electronics industry. This new paper helps calculate that total cost savings in more definite terms." (Comment on this)
9:26p	[$] Shumway lands in Firefox Mozilla has merged the code for Shumway, its JavaScript-based Flash runtime, into the latest builds of Firefox. The feature must be switched on manually, but it still marks a milestone for a project that Mozilla initially described as an R&D venture. Shumway is still a work in progress, but it brings Firefox users one step closer to eliminating a plugin that few will miss. (Comment on this)

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