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Tuesday, August 5th, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 4:03p |
Tuesday's security updates CentOS has updated yum-updatesd
(C5: bypass RPM package signing restriction).
Debian has updated icedove (multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated yum-updatesd
(RHEL5: bypass RPM package signing restriction).
Scientific Linux has updated yum-updatesd (SL5: bypass RPM package signing restriction).
SUSE has updated openjdk
(SLED11 SP3: multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated eglibc
(multiple vulnerabilities). | | 4:46p |
[$] Reconsidering ffmpeg in Debian
For better or for worse, forks are a part of the free software landscape.
Often a fork will result in a reinvigorated development community and the
removal of unneeded roadblocks. But not all forks work out well. What is
a distributor to do if, at some point, it concludes that it chose wrongly
when it followed a fork of an important project? Going back to the
original may not always be an easy thing to do, even if there appears to be
a consensus for that move. The presence of security concerns can make such
a change even harder to contemplate. The recent discussion on welcoming
ffmpeg back into Debian illustrates the potential hazards nicely. | | 6:09p |
How to think like open source pioneer Michael Tiemann (Opensource.com) Opensource.com is running an
interview with Michael Tiemann. " Make no mistake: For Tiemann, open source is not simply a business model. It's not just a method of developing software. It isn't an ethic. It's a Platonic form—perhaps something like a force, a tendency. Throughout history, many people have tried to glimpse it, if only for a moment. Tiemann knows he is but one of them: the programmer, the hacker, attempting to articulate, through code, this thing that abides.
Failure to recognize the magnitude of what makes open source businesses successful, Tiemann says, is what has led so many to misunderstand them." |
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