Friday, February 12th, 2016

Time	Event
4:46p	Friday's security updates Debian has updated libgcrypt20 (key leak) and nginx (three vulnerabilities). Debian-LTS has updated eglibc (regression in previous security update). Fedora has updated nodejs-is-my-json-valid (F22: denial of service) and python-pymongo (F23; F22: two vulnerabilities). openSUSE has updated cacti (42.1; 13.2; 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities), cacti-spine (13.1: unspecified), and openssl (13.1: cipher downgrade). Slackware has updated mozilla (14.1: unspecified). Ubuntu has updated firefox (15.10, 14.04, 12.04: same-origin restriction bypass) and postgresql-9.1, postgresql-9.3, postgresql-9.4 (15.10, 14.04, 12.04: two vulnerabilities). (Comment on this)
7:15p	Is the vinyl LP an open music format? (Opensource.com) Chris Hermansen looks at an early open music format—vinyl LP records—over at Opensource.com. He goes into some of the details of the format and how it is read, as well as a bit about ripping records using Linux. "Ok, so we just figured out that our stylus puts 136 times as much pressure on our records as our car puts on the pavement? That's crazy!!! Why doesn't the stylus completely destroy the record? Those alternate-Earth physicists and engineers are rolling on the floor now, clutching their bellies and gasping for breath... but here is the final straw. Despite the seemingly ridiculous or even impossible nature of the whole ensemble of components, a well-recorded vinyl LP played back with a decent turntable, tonearm, and cartridge sounds wonderful." (Comment on this)
7:29p	[$] Winning the copyleft fight Bradley Kuhn started off his linux.conf.au 2016 talk by stating a goal that, he hoped, he shared with the audience: a world where more (or most) software is free software. The community has one key strategy toward that goal: copyleft licensing. He was there to talk about whether that strategy is working, and what can be done to make it more effective; the picture he painted was not entirely rosy, but there is hope if software developers are willing to make some changes. (Comment on this)
11:37p	D’Souza: Maru is open source! On the Maru blog, developer Preetam D’Souza has announced that the Maru project is now open source. Maru is a desktop system running on a smartphone, so that adding a display, keyboard, and mouse to a phone allows the user to run their desktop on the phone—and still be able to use the device as a phone. "I’ve gotta say, the open source community never ceases to amaze me. I’ve had emails from people asking if they can help test Maru on other devices on a Sunday. How many normal people do you know that willingly want to give up their Sundays to help test software? I’ve experienced this helpfulness time and time again, whether it was the speakers at open source conferences so willing to share their knowledge, or the folks on forums who were so keen to help out beginners like me. Maru would never have been possible without that spirit of openness." (Comment on this)

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