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Monday, December 30th, 2013
| Time |
Event |
| 4:57a |
Kernel prepatch 3.13-rc6 The 3.13-rc6 prepatch is out for testing. " Nothing you'd normally even notice, just 81 fairly small
commits." | | 3:17p |
Positions forming in the Debian init system discussion Some of the members of the Debian Technical Committee are starting to post
their conclusions regarding which init system the distribution should use
in the future. In particular, Ian Jackson has come out in favor of upstart: " Firstly,
unlike the systemd maintainers, I think portability to non-Linux systems is
important. It may be that our existing non-Linux ports are not very widely
used, undermaintained, and/or not of production quality. However, I think it
is important for us to keep those options open."
Russ Allbery, meanwhile, is in favor of
systemd. "There are two separate conceptual areas in
which I think systemd offers substantial advantages over upstart, each of
which I would consider sufficient to choose systemd on its own. Together,
they make a compelling case for systemd."
In both cases, the authors have extensively documented their reasons for
their decisions; reading the full messages is recommended. | | 3:59p |
GnuCash 2.6.0 released Version
2.6.0 of the GnuCash accounting system has been released. New features include a reworked reports subsystem, the ability to attach external files (receipts, for example) to transactions, a number of new business features, a year-2038 fix, and a relicensing to GPLv2+. See the GnuCash 2.6.0 release
tour page for more information. | | 4:47p |
Security advisories for Monday CentOS has updated kernel
(Xen4CentOS: multiple vulnerabilities).
Debian has updated drupal6
(multiple vulnerabilities) and hplip
(multiple vulnerabilities).
Fedora has updated gnupg (F18; F19: side
channel attack), libgadu (F19; F20: missing ssl certificate validation), openstack-glance (F20: information leak), openstack-keystone (F20: unintentional role granting), perl-Proc-Daemon (F20; F19; F18: writes pidfile with mode 666), and seamonkey (F20; F18; F19: multiple vulnerabilities).
Gentoo has updated xfig (code
execution from 2010).
openSUSE has updated openjdk
(11.4: multiple vulnerabilities).
SUSE has updated acroread (end of
life). | | 8:21p |
[$] Btrfs: Working with multiple devices The previous installments of this series on the Btrfs filesystem have focused on the basics of using Btrfs like any other Linux filesystem. But Btrfs offers a number of features not supported by the alternatives; near the top of that list is support for multiple physical devices. Btrfs is not just a filesystem; it also has its own RAID mechanism built in. This article will delve into how this feature works and how to make use of it. | | 9:37p |
Gaynor: About Python 3 On his blog, Alex Gaynor laments the adoption rate of Python 3 and wonders if the split 2.x/3.x development model is to blame. " First, I think it's because of a lack of urgency. Many years ago, before I knew how to program, the decision to have Python 3 releases live in parallel to Python 2 releases was made. In retrospect this was a mistake, it resulted in a complete lack of urgency for the community to move, and the lack of urgency has given way to lethargy.
Second, I think there's been little uptake because Python 3 is fundamentally unexciting. It doesn't have the super big ticket items people want, such as removal of the GIL or better performance (for which many are using PyPy). Instead it has many new libraries (whose need is largely filled by pip install), and small cleanups which many experienced Python developers just avoid by habit at this point." |
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