Friday, March 21st, 2014

Time	Event
3:50p	Security updates for Friday Debian has updated extplorer (multiple cross-site scripting flaws). Fedora has updated asterisk (F20; F19: two vulnerabilities), libmodplug (F20; F19: two code execution flaws), python-swiftclient (F20: add SSL certificate checking by default), and springframework-security (F20; F19: authentication bypass). Mageia has updated nss, firefox, and thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities). Mandriva has updated nss (ES5: incorrect wildcard certificate handling). (Comment on this)
5:15p	Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”) In Fedora Magazine, Matthew Miller has an extensive look at why there is a need for Fedora.next. He links to a number of talks he and others have given as background, but the basic idea is that (at least in Miller's view) open source development has moved beyond the concept of distributions—they have just become boring infrastructure. "Well, actually all of the major distributions that work basically in the way Fedora does are on the decline. Slackware peaked before Fedora; openSUSE and Fedora seem to have peaked in terms of the buzz/popularity measure around 2006 or 2007. But Ubuntu has the same peak, just a bit later in 2009. If we count the years from now… that’s a long trend of decline for all of us. Ubuntu is still very popular, of course, but, they’re not cool. None of us are cool anymore. We want to be cool. How can we do that?" (Thanks to Paul Wise.) (Comment on this)

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