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Friday, March 22nd, 2019
| Time |
Event |
| 2:33p |
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox), Debian (cron and ntfs-3g), Fedora (firefox, ghostscript, libzip, python2-django1.11, PyYAML, tcpflow, and xen), Mageia (ansible, firefox, and ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick), Red Hat (ghostscript), Scientific Linux (firefox and ghostscript), SUSE (libxml2, unzip, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (firefox, ghostscript, libsolv, ntfs-3g, p7zip, and snapd). | | 3:51p |
[$] The congestion-notification conflict
Most of the time, the dreary work of writing protocol standards at
organizations like the IETF and beyond happens in the background, with most
of us being blissfully unaware of what is happening. Recently, though, a
disagreement over protocols for congestion notification and latency
reduction has come to a head in a somewhat messy conflict. The outcome of
this discussion may well affect how well the Internet of the future works —
and whether Linux systems can remain first-class citizens of that net. | | 5:16p |
Scribus team mourns the passing of Peter "mrdocs" Linnell The team behind the Scribus libre desktop-publishing tool is mourning the passing of Peter Linnell. " It is no understatement to say that without Peter Scribus wouldn’t be what it is today. It was Peter who spotted the potential of Franz Schmid’s initially humble Python program and, as a pre-press consultant at the time, contacted Franz to make him aware of the necessities of PostScript and PDF support, among other things. Peter also wrote the first version of the Scribus online documentation, which resulted in his nickname 'mrdocs' in IRC and elsewhere. Until recently, and despite his detoriating health, Peter continued to be involved in building and releasing new Scribus versions.
Scribus was the project he helped to set on track and which marked the beginning of his journey into the world of Free Software development. While it remained at the heart of his commitments to Open Source in general and Libre Graphics software in particular, Peter contributed to Free Software in many other ways as well. For example via contributions to projects related to freedesktop.org, as a package builder of many Free programs for several Linux distributions on the openSUSE Build Service, and later as an openSUSE board member. Peter was also crucial in bringing the Libre Graphics community together by way of sharing his expertise with other graphics-oriented projects and his assistance in organizing the first Libre Graphics Meetings. In the sometimes ego-driven and often emotional world of Open Source development, Peter managed to get along very well with almost everybody and never lost his sense of humour." |
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