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Friday, December 4th, 2020
| Time |
Event |
| 2:08p |
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (thunderbird), Fedora (c-ares, pdfresurrect, webkit2gtk3, and xen), openSUSE (python3), SUSE (gdm, python-pip, rpmlint, and xen), and Ubuntu (snapcraft). | | 3:40p |
GitHub's report on open-source security GitHub has released its "2020 State
of the Octoverse" report; one piece of that is a
report on security [PDF]. There are a number of interesting conclusions there, including that a surprising number of security vulnerabilities are planted deliberately. " Analysis on a random
sample of 521 advisories from across our six ecosystems finds that 17% of
the advisories are related to explicitly malicious behavior such as
backdoor attempts. Of those 17%, the vast majority come from the npm
ecosystem. While 17% of malicious attacks will steal the spotlight in
security circles, vulnerabilities introduced by mistake can be just as
disruptive and are much more likely to impact popular projects. Out of all
the alerts GitHub sent developers notifying them of vulnerabilities in
their dependencies, only 0.2% were related to explicitly malicious
activity. That is, most vulnerabilities were simply those caused by
mistakes." | | 9:06p |
[$] The future of 32-bit Linux
The news for processors and system-on-chip (SoC) products these
days is all about 64-bit cores powering the latest computers and
smartphones, so it's easy to be misled into thinking that all 32-bit
technology is obsolete. That quickly leads to the idea of removing support
for 32-bit hardware, which would clearly make life easier for kernel
developers in a number of ways.
At the same time, a majority of embedded systems shipped today do use 32-bit
processors, so a valid question is if this will ever change, or if 32-bit
will continue to be the best choice for devices that do not require
significant resources. | | 9:31p |
t2 Linux 20.10 released The 20.10 release of the t2 Linux distribution is available. " After
a decade of development we are proud to announce the availability of the
new T2 Linux Source and Embedded Linux distribution build kit stable
release 20.10." More information about this distribution can be found at t2sde.org: " T2 SDE is not
just a regular Linux distribution - it is a flexible Open Source System
Development Environment or Distribution Build Kit (others might even name
it Meta Distribution). T2 allows the creation of custom distributions with
state of the art technology, up-to-date packages and integrated support for
cross compilation. Currently the Linux kernel is normally used - but the T2
SDE is being expanded to Minix, Hurd, OpenDarwin, Haiku and OpenBSD - more
to come." |
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