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Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 1:33p |
[$] Running a mainline kernel on a cellphone
One of the biggest freedoms associated with with free software is the ability to
replace a program with an updated or modified version. Even so, of the
many millions of people using Linux-powered phones, few are able to
run a mainline kernel on those phones, even if they have the technical
skills to do the replacement. The sad fact is that no mainstream phone
available runs mainline kernels. A session at the 2015 Kernel Summit, led
by Rob Herring, explored this problem and what might be done to address it. | | 4:19p |
Security advisories for Wednesday CentOS has updated qemu-kvm (C7: denial of service).
Debian has updated openjdk-7 (multiple vulnerabilities) and php5 (two vulnerabilities).
openSUSE has updated squid (13.2,
13.1: nonce replay vulnerability) and wireshark (13.2, 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated kubernetes
(RHOSE3: directory path traversal).
Ubuntu has updated ntp (multiple
vulnerabilities), openjdk-7 (15.10, 15.04,
14.04: multiple vulnerabilities), and php5 (denial of service). | | 5:25p |
Tor: a landmark for hidden services
The Tor Project's .onion (hidden services) addresses have been formally
approved as a Special Use Domain Name by the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF). "[Jacob] Appelbaum, a security researcher and advocate at the Tor Project and
Alec Muffett, a software engineer at Facebook, co-authored the Request
for Comments (RFC 7686) to the IETF. Hidden services are used by human
rights defenders, political organizers, journalists, diplomats, and
ordinary people around the world who want to chat, email, blog or do
other everyday work privately and without the use of a centralized,
hackable server." | | 10:51p |
An update on the VMware suit The Software Freedom Conservancy has posted an update
on the GPL-infringement suit against VMware filed by Christoph Hellwig. " The lawsuit continues to progress. VMware has filed a
statement of defense, in which they assert arguments for the dismissal of
the action. Christoph, with the assistance of his lawyer Till Jaeger, has
filed his response to these arguments. Unfortunately, VMware has explicitly
asked for the filings not to be published and, accordingly, Conservancy has
not been able to review either document. With the guidance of counsel,
Christoph was able to provide Conservancy with a high-level summary of the
filings from which we are able to provide this update. VMware's statement
of defense primarily focuses on two issues. First, VMware questions
Christoph's copyright interest in the Linux kernel and his right to bring
this action. Second, VMware claims vmklinux is an 'interoperability module'
which communicates through a stable interface called VMK API." |
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