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Monday, October 5th, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 8:51a |
The Real-Time Linux Collaborative Project The Linux Foundation has announcedthe formation of a collaborative project to support the ongoing development of the realtime kernel patch set. " The RTL Collaborative Project
will focus on pushing critical code upstream to be reviewed and eventually
merged into the mainline Linux kernel where it will receive ongoing
support. This will save the industry millions of dollars in research and
development. It will also improve quality of the code through robust
upstream kernel test infrastructure, since anything maintained in the
mainline kernel is collectively supported by thousands of developers and
hundreds of companies around the world." As part of the project, the Foundation has appointed Thomas Gleixner into a Fellow position. | | 2:30p |
Sharp: Closing a door Sarah Sharp has made
official her departure from the kernel development community. " I
didn’t take the decision to step down lightly. I felt guilty, for a long
time, for stepping down. However, I finally realized that I could no longer
contribute to a community where I was technically respected, but I could
not ask for personal respect. I could not work with people who helpfully
encouraged newcomers to send patches, and then argued that maintainers
should be allowed to spew whatever vile words they needed to in order to
maintain radical emotional honesty. I did not want to work professionally
with people who were allowed to get away with subtle sexist or homophobic
jokes. I feel powerless in a community that had a 'Code of Conflict'
without a specific list of behaviors to avoid and a community with no teeth
to enforce it." | | 4:41p |
Security advisories for Monday Arch Linux has updated hostapd
(multiple vulnerabilities) and libunwind (denial of service).
Fedora has updated activemq (F22:
information disclosure), bind (F21: denial
of service), jenkins-script-security-plugin
(F22: unspecified vulnerability), kernel (F22; F21:
denial of service), libwmf (F22: two
vulnerabilities), scap-security-guide (F22; F21:
unspecified vulnerability), seamonkey (F22; F21:
multiple vulnerabilities), thunderbird
(F22: multiple vulnerabilities), and xen (F22; F21:
multiple vulnerabilities).
Mageia has updated chromium-browser (MG5: information disclosure)
and gdk-pixbuf2.0 (MG5: two vulnerabilities).
openSUSE has updated phpMyAdmin
(13.2, 13.1: guessable user credentials).
Ubuntu has updated oxide-qt
(15.04, 14.04: information disclosure), thunderbird (15.04, 14.04, 12.04: multiple
vulnerabilities), and firefox (15.04,
14.04, 12.04: regression in previous update). | | 7:57p |
Android 6.0 Marshmallow, thoroughly reviewed (Ars Technica) Ars Technica presents
a lengthy review of Android 6.0 "Marshmallow". " While this is a review of the final build of "Android 6.0," we're going to cover many of Google's apps along with some other bits that aren't technically exclusive to Marshmallow. Indeed, big chunks of "Android" don't actually live in the operating system anymore. Google offloads as much of Android as possible to Google Play Services and to the Play Store for easier updating and backporting to older versions, and this structure allows the company to retain control over its open source platform. As such, consider this a look at the shipping Google Android software package rather than just the base operating system. "Review: New Android stuff Google has released recently" would be a more accurate title, though not as catchy." |
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