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Thursday, December 11th, 2014
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| 1:04a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 11, 2014
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 11, 2014 is available. | | 5:01p |
Security updates for Thursday Debian has updated pdns-recursor
(denial of service), unbound (denial of
service), and xorg-server (multiple vulnerabilities).
Gentoo has updated adobe-flash
(multiple vulnerabilities), clamav (denial
of service), and libxml2 (denial of service).
Mageia has updated bind (M4:
denial of service), firebird (M4: denial of
service), and pdns-recursor (M4: denial of service).
Red Hat has updated flash-plugin
(RHEL5&6: multiple vulnerabilities).
Scientific Linux has updated kernel (SL7: multiple vulnerabilities, one
from 2013).
Slackware has updated bind
(denial of service), mozilla (multiple
vulnerabilities), openssh (tcp wrappers
support), openvpn (denial of service), pidgin (multiple vulnerabilities), seamonkey (multiple vulnerabilities), and wpa_supplicant (command execution).
Ubuntu has updated nvidia-graphics-drivers (14.10, 14.04, 12.04:
three vulnerabilities). | | 6:42p |
Fairphone: Our approach to software and ongoing support for the first Fairphones Over at the Fairphone blog, Kees Jongenburger reflects on what went right—and wrong—for the software that went into the first version of the Fairphone, which is a project aimed at creating a mobile phone that is, well, more "fair". The project seeks to inject social values into the supply chain so that minerals come from conflict-free mining, for example, and that the workers are provided with a living wage. " Fairphone’s high-level ambition is to bring more fairness to software. To us, that means focusing on two key principles: transparency and longevity.
We believe products should be long-lasting. The longer a phone lasts, the less waste it creates and the fewer resources it requires. Longevity plays a role in hardware choices; and at the software level, longevity means keeping the software up-to-date and secure after the product was sold.
Openness ties directly into our ideas for longevity. We believe that our community should have access to the source code of our software to make improvements, add cool functionality, and extend usability. We believe that releasing the code as open source will prolong the life of the phone past its commercial life.
For the first Fairphone, we pinpointed a number of (in retrospect, over-ambitious) goals that aligned with the ideas of transparency and longevity." We looked at Fairphone back in July 2013. (Thanks to Paul Wise.) |
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