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Thursday, February 12th, 2015

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    2:34a
    [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 12, 2015
    The LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 12, 2015 is available.
    3:42p
    Security advisories for Thursday

    Debian has updated dbus (denial of service) and xorg-server (information leak/denial of service).

    Debian-LTS has updated postgresql-8.4 (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Mageia has updated chromium-browser-stable (multiple vulnerabilities), e2fsprogs (code execution), hivex (privilege escalation), ntp (two vulnerabilities), owasp-esapi-java (crypto botch from 2013), perl-Gtk2 (code execution), and xdg-utils (code execution).

    Mandriva has updated e2fsprogs (code execution), elfutils (privilege escalation), ntp (two vulnerabilities), perl-Gtk2 (code execution), and postgresql (multiple vulnerabilities).

    openSUSE has updated jython (13.2, 13.1: code execution from 2013).

    Oracle has updated kernel (OL5: two vulnerabilities) and kernel (OL5: unspecified vulnerabilities).

    Scientific Linux has updated subversion (SL7: three vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated krb5 (SLE11SP3: multiple vulnerabilities) and ntp (SLE11SP3: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated postgresql-8.4, postgresql-9.1, postgresql-9.3, postgresql-9.4 (multiple vulnerabilities).

    10:15p
    Linux for Astronomers (Linux Journal)
    Over at Linux Journal, Joey Bernard looks at Distro Astro, which is a Linux distribution for astronomy. It collects programs of interest to those running telescopes and planetariums, including various image collection and processing applications.
    "After aiming your telescope, you need to collect some images or do some astrophotography. While you can do some of this with software like KStars, you have software specifically designed to do image capture. Some, like wxAstroCapture, are specifically written for use in astronomy. With it, you can set up automatic guiding and batch image collection. You then can go have a nice hot cup of coffee while your telescope collects your data. To help you keep track of all of these observations, you can use the Observation Manager, a logging program to maintain your records."

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