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Thursday, March 6th, 2014

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    1:53a
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 6, 2014
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 6, 2014 is available.
    4:02p
    Security updates for Thursday

    CentOS has updated subversion (C6; C5: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated gnutls (F20; F19: certificate validation botch) and kernel (F20: three vulnerabilities).

    Mageia has updated libssh (private key leak).

    openSUSE has updated gnutls (12.3: certificate validation botch), percona-toolkit, xtrabackup (13.1: code execution), rubygems (13.1, 12.3: gems not getting security updates), and subversion (12.3: denial of service).

    Oracle has updated subversion (OL6; OL5: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated activemq (RH OpenShift Enterprise: multiple vulnerabilities) and subversion (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Scientific Linux has updated subversion (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Slackware has updated sudo (privilege escalation).

    Ubuntu has updated EC2 kernel (10.04: multiple vulnerabilities), icedtea-web (13.10, 12.10, 12.04: insecure tmpfile usage), kernel (10.04: multiple vulnerabilities), and tomcat6, tomcat7 (multiple vulnerabilities).

    9:00p
    Calligra 2.8 released
    The Calligra office suite has announced its 2.8 release. In addition to the Krita painting program's 2.8 release (which we reviewed in the March 6 edition of LWN), other components have new features and bug fixes as well. Words and Author gained support for document comments, Kexi (visual database tool) has many fixes and improvements based on user feedback, Sheets now has pivot tables, and so on. "There are also some general improvements in all apps. It is now possible to copy and paste any shape between any documents in Calligra applications. Moreover, copying and pasting of images and rich text is now more advanced."
    9:49p
    Linux Foundation teams up with edX to build free online Linux course
    The Linux Foundation has announced that it is building a massive open online course (MOOC) with edX, the non-profit learning platform created by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "The Linux Foundation and edX are partnering to develop a MOOC program that will help address this issue by making basic Linux training materials available to all for free. Previously a $2,400 course, Introduction to Linux will be the first class available as a MOOC and will be free to anyone, anywhere. The Linux Foundation is among a new group of member organizations edX announced today who will contribute courses to the platform.

    EdX’s MOOC’s are an increasingly popular way to provide for unlimited participation and open access to learning material to people anywhere in the world via the web. These programs also provide interactive users forums where students and professors can build communities, similar to the way in which the Linux community collaborates. MOOCs have recently generated enrollments for individual classes of 60,000 or more students.    "

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