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Thursday, October 30th, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 12:53a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 30, 2014
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for October 30, 2014 is available. | | 3:11p |
Security advisories for Thursday Debian has updated dokuwiki
(multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated v8314-v8
(i.e. V8) (SC1: multiple vulnerabilities, several from 2013).
Slackware has updated wget (code execution).
Ubuntu has updated php5 (multiple
vulnerabilities) and systemd-shim (14.10:
denial of service). | | 5:04p |
Stable kernels 3.17.2, 3.16.7, 3.14.23, and 3.10.59 Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of four new stable kernels: 3.17.2, 3.16.7, 3.14.23, and 3.10.59. As always, they contain important fixes and users of those series should update. Note that 3.16.7 is the last stable kernel in the 3.16 series; users should upgrade to 3.17 soon. | | 7:41p |
KVM Matures, and the Use Cases Multiply (Linux.com) Over at Linux.com, Adam Jollans has a report from the recently completed KVM Forum that was held in Düsseldorf, Germany October 14-16. He looks at a talk that he gave on KVM's relationship to OpenStack and the open cloud, a new white paper on KVM [PDF], and a panel on network function virtualization (NFV): " In the past, communications networks have been built with specific routers, switches and hubs with the configuration of all the components being manual and complex. The idea now is to take that network function, put it into software running on standard hardware.
The discussion touched on the demands – in terms of latency, throughput, and packet jitter – that network function virtualization places on KVM when it is being run on general purpose hardware and used to support high data volume. There was a lively discussion about how to get fast communication between the virtual machines as well as issues such as performance and sharing memory, as attendees drilled down into how KVM could be applied in new ways." |
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