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Thursday, August 6th, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 1:24a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 6, 2015
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 6, 2015 is available. | | 2:31p |
Security updates for Thursday CentOS has updated kernel (C7: multiple vulnerabilities, one from 2014).
Fedora has updated kernel (F22:
three vulnerabilities).
openSUSE has updated ghostscript
(13.2, 13.1: code execution) and php5
(13.2, 13.1: two vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated kernel
(RHEL7: multiple vulnerabilities, one from 2014) and kernel-rt (RHEL7; RHEL6: multiple vulnerabilities, one from 2014).
Scientific Linux has updated kernel (SL7: multiple vulnerabilities, one from 2014).
SUSE has updated oracle-update
(Manager 2.1: multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated cinder (15.04:
arbitrary file reads), python-keystoneclient,
python-keystonemiddleware (15.04, 14.04: two vulnerabilities, one from
2014), and swift (15.04, 14.04, 12,04: two
vulnerabilities, one from 2014). | | 6:13p |
Federated Cloud Sharing in ownCloud 8.1 (ownCloud blog) The ownCloud blog has a post about federated file sharing between ownCloud instances in ownCloud 8.1, but it also looks at the wider view of federation between various kinds of cloud servers. ownCloud founder Frank Karlitschek has a series of posts ( It is Time to Federate Our Clouds, The Next Generation File Sync and Share Technology, and The Federated Architecture of Next Generation File Sync and Share) on federation technology and has also proposed a cross-cloud-platform federation API: " In addition, today Frank proposed a draft of a Federated Cloud Sharing API to the Open Cloud Mesh working group with the goal of jump-starting a discussion about what is needed to enable federation between different file sharing implementations. Sharing among ownClouds is great, but the true power of a federated file cloud is available when you can share among different implementations seamlessly, because you all speak the same common language. This is the goal of the Open Cloud Mesh working group (of which ownCloud is a member as well), and outside of that, drafts have been shared with a number of well known standards organizations around web technologies and fellow open source file share and sync projects to get the work started." | | 8:25p |
Grasch: A Frank Look at Simon: Where To Go From Here On his blog, Peter Grasch considers the future for the Simon speech-recognition system for KDE. He is passing the torch and will no longer be actively participating in the project, but he spent some time passing on his knowledge and some thoughts on where things might go from here. In addition, he built a working prototype of a speech-based command and control system for the Plasma desktop called Lera. " If anything, Lera is a starting point. The next steps would be to move Simon’s “eventsimulation” library into a separate framework, to be shared between Lera and Simon. Lera could then use this to type out the recognition results (see Simon’s Dictation plugin). Then, I would suggest porting a simplified notion of “Scenarios” to Lera, which should only really contain a set of commands, and maybe context information (vocabulary and “grammar” can be synthesized automatically from the command triggers). The implementation of training (acoustic model adaption) would then complete a very sensible, very usable version 1.0." |
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