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Tuesday, April 19th, 2016
| Time |
Event |
| 10:52a |
Schaller: Fedora Workstation Phase 1 – Homestretch Christian Schaller celebrates
the completion of the (informal) first phase of the Fedora Workstation project. " Another major piece of engineering that is coming to a
close is moving major applications such as Firefox, LibreOffice and Eclipse
to GTK3. This was needed both to get these applications able to run
natively on Wayland, but it also enabled us to make them work nicely for
HiDPI. This has also played out into how GTK3 have positioned itself which
to be a toolkit dedicated to pushing the Linux desktop forward and helping
that quickly adapt and adopt to changes in the technology
landscape." | | 1:30p |
The Android Security 2015 Annual Report Google has announcedthe availability of the Android
security 2015 year in review [PDF]. " Android’s open source model
has also allowed device manufacturers to introduce new security
capabilities. Samsung KNOX, for example, has taken advantage of unique
hardware capabilities to strengthen the root of trust on Samsung
devices. Samsung has also introduced new kernel monitoring capabilities on
their Android devices. Samsung is not unique in their contributions to the
Android ecosystem. Blackberry has worked to enhance the security of their
devices by enabling kernel hardening and other features in the Blackberry
PRIV. CopperheadOS has both introduced security improvements to their own
version of Android and made significant contributions to the Android Open
Source Project. These are just some of the various contributions made
possible through open sourcing that improved the Android ecosystem in
2015." | | 4:02p |
Tuesday's security updates Fedora has updated libreswan
(F22: denial of service).
openSUSE has updated systemd
(13.2: two vulnerabilities). |
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