Monday, May 18th, 2015

Time	Event
4:04p	[$] An introduction to Clear Containers Guest author Arjan van de Ven writes: "Containers are hot. Everyone loves them. Developers love the ease of creating a "bundle" of something that users can consume; DevOps and information-technology departments love the ease of management and deployment." A group at Intel is working on a new approach to containers called "Clear Containers"; click below (subscribers only) for an introduction to how these containers work. (Comment on this)
4:50p	Security advisories for Monday Arch Linux has updated thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities). CentOS has updated thunderbird (C7: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated libmodule-signature-perl (multiple vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated dpkg (integrity-verification bypass), nbd (denial of service), and tiff (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated java-1.8.0-openjdk (F21: unspecified vulnerability), NetworkManager (F21: denial of service), phpMyAdmin (F21; F20: two vulnerabilities), qemu (F21: code execution), and t1utils (F21; F20: multiple vulnerabilities). Mageia has updated ruby-rest-client (two vulnerabilities) and virtualbox (code execution). openSUSE has updated flash-player (11.4: multiple vulnerabilities), qemu (13.2; 13.1: code execution), and firefox (11.4: multiple vulnerabilities). Red Hat has updated thunderbird (RHEL5,6,7: multiple vulnerabilities). Slackware has updated thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities). SUSE has updated KVM (SLE11SP3: code execution), qemu (SLE12: two vulnerabilities), and spice (SLE12; SLESDK12: denial of service). (Comment on this)
5:01p	Stable kernel updates New stable kernels 4.0.4, 3.14.43, and 3.10.79 have been released. All of them contain important fixes throughout the tree. (Comment on this)
7:47p	Kernel prepatch 4.1-rc4 Linus has released the 4.1-rc4 kernel prepatch, saying: "So here it is, last-minute fix and all. The -rc4 patch is a bit bigger than the previous ones, but that seems to be mainly due to normal random timing - just the fluctuation of when submaintainer trees get pushed." (Comment on this)
8:03p	Goodbye, Pi. Hello, C.H.I.P. (Linux Journal) Linux Journal takes a look at the C.H.I.P. mini-computer, an open software and hardware device that comes with a Debian-based OS. "The official public release is scheduled for next year, but crowdfunding backers will be able to land a "Kernel Hacker" package this September. This package is aimed at Linux developers who want to help to contribute to kernel modifications for the C.H.I.P. before its final release." (Comment on this)

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