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Wednesday, January 6th, 2016

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    10:44a
    [$] How 4.4's patches got to the mainline
    The kernel development community is organized as a hierarchy, with
    developers submitting patches to maintainers who will, in turn, commit
    those patches
    to a repository and push them upstream to higher-level maintainers. This
    hierarchy logically looks a lot like the directory hierarchy of the kernel
    source itself; most maintainers look after one or more subtrees of the
    kernel source tree. But does that model really describe how patches make
    it into the mainline? The kernel's git repository, with the aid of some
    scripting, holds an answer to that question.
    5:36p
    Security updates for Wednesday

    Debian has updated git (code execution) and kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Debian-LTS has updated linux-2.6 (three vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated openvpn (F23: multiple vulnerabilities) and quassel (F23; F22: denial of service).

    Oracle has updated thunderbird (OL7; OL6: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Red Hat has updated thunderbird (RHEL5,6,7: multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated samba (SLE11-SP2: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated kernel (15.10; 15.04: privilege escalation), ldb (two vulnerabilities), linux-lts-vivid (14.04: privilege escalation), linux-lts-wily (14.04: privilege escalation), linux-raspi2 (15.10: privilege escalation), and samba (multiple vulnerabilities).

    9:33p
    The birth of Debian, in the words of Ian Murdock himself (Ars Technica)
    Glyn Moody conducted an interview with Ian Murdock in 1999. In this
    article     on Ars Technica, Glyn looks back at Debian's early history, as Ian
    recounted it in that interview. "When we spoke in 1999, he was delighted by how the project had continued to develop: "I often tell people that I didn't know that Debian would be a success until after I left. Because the whole idea was that Debian would be something that would take on a life of its own, and that if it could do that it would outlive my involvement. And it did, and in fact it's not just surviving, but it's thriving. And I'm very proud of that.""

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