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Friday, December 5th, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 2:23p |
The first CentOS Linux Rolling media release
The CentOS project has announced the availability of the first in a series
of monthly rolling releases. "CentOS Linux rolling builds are point in time snapshot media rebuild
from original release time, to include all updates pushed to
mirror.centos.org's repositories. This includes all security, bugfix,
enhancement and general updates for CentOS Linux. Machines installed
from this media will have all these updates pre-included and will look
no different when compared with machines installed with older media
that have been yum updated to the same point in time." | | 2:54p |
Hutterer: pointer acceleration in libinput - building a DPI database for mice Peter Hutterer describes
a new mechanism aimed at providing consistent acceleration behavior across mice. " For us, useless and unpredictable is bad, especially in the use-case
of everyday desktops. To work around that, libinput 0.7 now incorporates
the physical resolution into pointer acceleration. And to do that we need a
database, which will be provided by udev as of systemd 218 (unreleased at
the time of writing). This database incorporates the various devices and
their physical resolution, together with their sampling rate. udev sets the
resolution as the MOUSE_DPI property that we can read in libinput and use
as reference point in the pointer accel code." The developers are looking for help to populate this new database. | | 4:44p |
Friday's security updates CentOS has updated kernel
(C5: privilege escalation).
Mageia has updated mutt (M4:
denial of service), yaml,
perl-YAML-LibYAML (M4: denial of service), phpmyadmin (M4: denial of service), and
tcpdump (M4: code execution).
openSUSE has updated clamav
(12.3, 13.1, 13.2: multiple vulnerabilities),
flash-player: code execution), and phpMyAdmin (12.3, 13.1, 13.2: multiple vulnerabilities).
Oracle has updated kernel (O5: privilege escalation; O6; O7:
multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated kernel
(RHEL5: privilege escalation).
Ubuntu has updated MAAS
(12.04, 14.04, 14.10:
privilege escalation). | | 7:48p |
Software Freedom Conservancy launches supporter program Software Freedom
Conservancy (SFC), the US-based non-profit organization that sponsors
around 30
separate FOSS projects, has announced a
"Supporter" program. The program allows individuals to make a recurring
donation to SFC's general operating fund, akin to the individual
membership-style programs also offered by the Free Software
Foundation, Software In The Public Interest, and various other non-profits in
the community. As always, individuals can also make donations
directly to SFC member projects. |
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