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Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 1:07p |
Introducing Dynomite - Making non-distributed databases, distributed The Netflix Tech Blog has posted an
introduction to Dynomite, a database distribution system. " In
the age of high scalability and big data, Dynomite’s design goal is to turn
those single-server datastore solutions into peer-to-peer, linearly
scalable, clustered systems while still preserving the native client/server
protocols of the datastores, e.g., Redis protocol." Dynomite is available under the Apache license. | | 1:14p |
openSUSE 13.2 released The openSUSE
13.2 release is now available. " This version presents the first
step to adopt the new openSUSE design guidelines system-wide. The graphical
revamp is noticeable everywhere: the installer, the bootloader, the boot
sequence and all of the (seven!) supported desktops (KDE, GNOME, Xfce,
LXDE, Enlightenment 19, Mate and Awesome). Even the experimental Plasma 5.1
is adapted to the overall experience." See the announcement for details on what's new in this release. | | 4:58p |
Tuesday's security updates CentOS has updated cups-filters
(C7: command execution).
Oracle has updated cups-filters
(OL7: command execution).
Red Hat has updated cups-filters
(RHEL7: command execution) and RHOSE (two vulnerabilities).
Scientific Linux has updated cups
(SL6: multiple vulnerabilities), cups-filters (SL7: command execution), file (SL6: multiple vulnerabilities), firefox (SL5,6,7: multiple vulnerabilities),
glibc (SL6: two vulnerabilities), java-1.8.0-openjdk (SL6: multiple
vulnerabilities), kernel (SL7; SL6: multiple vulnerabilities), krb5 (SL6: multiple vulnerabilities), luci (SL6: code execution), php (SL6,7: multiple vulnerabilities), php53 (SL5: multiple vulnerabilities), thunderbird (SL6: multiple vulnerabilities),
wget (SL6,7: symlink attack), and X11 client libraries (SL6: multiple
vulnerabilities).
Slackware has updated mariadb (multiple vulnerabilities), firefox (multiple vulnerabilities), php (three vulnerabilities), and seamonkey (multiple vulnerabilities). | | 6:35p |
Fedora 21 beta released
The Fedora 21 beta release is available for testing. "Every bug you
uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users
worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora 21 a rock-solid distribution. We
have a culture of coordinating new features and pushing fixes upstream as
much as feasible and your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but
Linux and free software on the whole." | | 7:39p |
Videos from the GNU Tools Cauldron The GNU Tools Cauldron, a conference on the low-level toolchain (GCC, glibc, GDB, etc.) was held last July. There is now a full set of videos from the
event available for your viewing pleasure. Anybody with an interest in this area is advised to have a fair amount of time available before visiting that page; there are quite a few interesting topics in the list. | | 7:58p |
Mobile Linux Distros Keep on Morphing (Linux.com) Linux.com looksat the distributions powering mobile devices, including Firefox OS, Tizen, Ubuntu, and WebOS. " At the Mozilla Festival held earlier this week in the U.K. , Mozilla unveiled a PiFxOS version of Firefox OS for the Raspberry Pi, also dubbed Foxberry Pi, with promises to make it competitive with Raspbian Linux. It's currently a bleeding edge demoware build, but Mozilla appears to be serious about ramping it up, with an early focus on robotics hacking and media players.
PiFxOS is based on a Firefox OS port to the Pi developed by Oleg Romashin and Philip Wagner, which seems to have stalled. Mozilla plans to beef it up with support for sensors, control motors, LEDs, solenoids, and other components, as well as build a modified version for drones. A longer term project is to develop a DOM/CSS platform for robots using "a declarative model of a reactive system."" | | 9:16p |
[$] Kdbus meets linux-kernel There has been a long history of attempts to put interprocess messaging systems into the Linux kernel; in general, these attempts have not gotten very far. From the beginning, though, the expectations around "kdbus," an in-kernel implementation of the widely used D-Bus mechanism, have been higher than the usual. Kdbus has been under development for more than two years, and was unveiled at linux.conf.au in January. But it had never been posted to the linux-kernel mailing list for review and, with luck, eventual inclusion — until October 29, when Greg Kroah-Hartman posted a twelve-part seriesfor consideration. |
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