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Monday, October 27th, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 10:11a |
Kernel prepatch 3.18-rc2 The second 3.18 prepatch is available for testing. " I had hoped that the rc1 release would mean that a few
stragglers would quickly surface, and then the rest of the rc would be more
normal. But no, I had straggling merge-window pull requests come in all
week, and rc2 is bigger than I'd like." Perhaps the most significant of those requests was for the overlayfs union filesystem, which has finally been merged after years of trying. | | 1:09p |
Qubes OS release 2 available Release
2 of the Qubes OS secure desktop system is available. The biggest change, perhaps, is support for "fully virtualized AppVMs"; these allow running any operating system in a fully virtualized mode under Qubes. Other additions include secure audio input to AppVMs (allowing Skype to be run in a sandbox, evidently), policy control over the clipboard, an improved secure backup infrastructure, improved hardware support, and more. | | 3:33p |
Security advisories for Monday Debian has updated libtasn1-3 (multiple vulnerabilities) and libxml2 (denial of service).
Fedora has updated sysklogd (F20; F19: denial of service).
Mageia has updated drupal (SQL injection), firefox, thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities), java-1.7.0-openjdk (multiple vulnerabilities), mariadb (multiple vulnerabilities), and pidgin (multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated libxml2
(14.04, 12.04, 10.04: denial of service). | | 5:50p |
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Now Available SUSE has announced
the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12. " New products based on
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 feature enhancements that more readily enable
system uptime, improve operational efficiency and accelerate
innovation. The foundation for all SUSE data center operating systems and
extensions, SUSE Linux Enterprise meets the performance requirements of
data centers with mixed IT environments, while reducing the risk of
technological obsolescence and vendor lock-in." SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is available for x86_64, IBM Power Systems, and IBM System z. | | 7:57p |
Season of KDE 2014 The Season of KDE is a community outreach program, much like Google Summer of Code. " It is meant for people who could not get into Google
Summer of Code for various reasons, or people who simply prefer a
differently structured, somewhat less constrained program. Season of KDE is
managed by the same team of admins and mentors that takes care of Google
Summer of Code and Google Code-in matters for KDE, with the same level of
quality and care." The student application deadline is October 31. The mentor application deadline is November 5. |
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