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Thursday, June 19th, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 1:03a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 19, 2014
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 19, 2014 is available. | | 1:59p |
30 years of X The X.Org Foundation reminds
us that the first announcement for the X Window System came out on June 19, 1984. " The X developers have pushed the boundaries and
moved X from a system originally written to run on the CPU of a VAX VS100
to one that runs the GUI on today's laptops with 3D rendering
capabilities. Indeed, X predates the concept of a Graphics Processing Unit
(GPU) as we currently know it, and even the company that popularized this
term in 1999, Nvidia." Congratulations to one of the oldest and most successful free software projects out there. | | 2:20p |
Debian switching back to Glibc Aurelien Jarmo reports that the Debian Project is switching back to the GNU C Library and will no longer ship the EGLIBC fork. The reason is simple: the changes in the Glibc project mean that EGLIBC is no longer needed and is no longer under development. " This has resulted in a
much more friendly development based on team work with good
cooperation. The development is now based on peer review, which results in
less buggy code (humans do make mistakes). It has also resulted in things
that were clearly impossible before, like using the same repository for all
architectures, and even getting rid of the ports/ directory." | | 2:29p |
Security updates for Thursday Fedora has updated kernel (F20:
privilege escalation).
Gentoo has updated rxvt-unicode
(code execution).
Mageia has updated dbus (denial
of service), kernel (M4: three
vulnerabilities), musl (M4: code
execution), qt3 (two denial of service
flaws), and wireshark (M4: denial of service).
Red Hat has updated foreman-proxy
(OSP3&4: shell command injection) and
rubygem-openshift-origin-node (OSE2.1; OSE2.0; OSE1.2.8: code execution).
Ubuntu has updated cinder (14.04,
13.10: privilege escalation), heat (14.04:
information leak), and thunderbird (14.04,
13.10, 12.04: three vulnerabilities). | | 3:10p |
US Supreme Court rules against software patents In April, LWN reported on the case of Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, which addresses the issue of whether ideas implemented in software are patentable. The
ruling [PDF] is now in: a 9-0 decision against patentability. " We hold that the claims at issue are drawn to the abstract idea of
intermediated settlement, and that merely requiring generic computer
implementation fails to transform that abstract idea into a patent-eligible
invention." |
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