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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 3:47p |
The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty (New Yorker) The New Yorker notes
the 30th anniversary of the GNU Manifesto. " Stallman was one of the first to grasp that, if commercial entities
were going to own the methods and technologies that controlled computers,
then computer users would inevitably become beholden to those
entities. This has come to pass, and in spades. Most computer users have
become dependent on proprietary code provided by companies like Apple,
Facebook, and Google, the use of which comes with conditions we may not
condone or even know about, and can’t control; we have forfeited the
freedom to adapt such code according to our needs, preferences, and
personal ethics." | | 4:19p |
Tuesday's security updates Debian has updated checkpw (denial of service), libxfont (privilege escalation), and tcpdump (multiple vulnerabilities).
Debian-LTS has updated gnupg (multiple vulnerabilities) and tcpdump (multiple vulnerabilities).
Gentoo has updated adobe-flash
(multiple vulnerabilities) and file
(multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated kernel
(RHEL6.2: multiple vulnerabilities) and kernel-rt (RHE MRG2.5: multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated libav (12.04: multiple vulnerabilities). | | 4:54p |
[$] Reservations for must-succeed memory allocations When the schedule
for the 2015 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory Management Summit was
laid out, its authors optimistically set aside 30 minutes on the first day
for the thorny issue of memory-allocation problems in low-memory
situations. That session ( covered here)
didn't get past the issue of whether small allocations should be allowed to
fail, so the remainder of the discussion, focused on finding better
solutions for the problem of allocations that simply cannot fail, was
pushed into a plenary session on the second day.
With this article, LWN's coverage of the memory-management track at LSFMM
2015 is complete; sessions from the filesystems track are being added as
well. It all can be found at the LWN LSFMM
2015 page. | | 6:06p |
Qt 5.5 Alpha Available Qt 5.5 alpha has been released. " With Qt 5.5, Canvas 3D is fully supported and a technology preview
of long awaited Qt 3D is included. Qt 5.5 also introduces mapping support
with a Qt Location technology preview. Qt 5.5 Alpha is the first step
towards Qt 5.5 final release planned to be available in May." Check out the New Features in
Qt 5.5 page for more details. |
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