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| [2005-02-18] mp3riot version 1.3 released | | [2004-10-08] mp3riot version 1.2 is out. | | [2004-04-30] Added section Bridging | | [2004-01-09] working progress on mp3riot version 1.2 |
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| Michael Opdenacker has announced the availability of videosfrom this year's Embedded Linux Conference, which was held in San Francisco in April. The slides and Theora video are available for most, if not all, of the talks. Opdenacker and the Free Electrons team do the community a great service by doing the work to record and transcode the videos. "If you are interested in such talks, what about joining the European
edition of the conference? It will take place in Cambridge (UK), on
October 27-28, and will be colocated with the GStreamer conference
(October 26). See http://www.embeddedlinuxconference.com/elc_europe10/and http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conference/for details." |
| Embedded Linux Conference videos available |
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| Mandrivahas updated thunderbird(multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntuhas updated wget(arbitrary
code execution).
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| Thursday's security updates |
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| Tiago Vignatti has put together a reporton the development X.org 1.9. In the tradition of the kernel statistics reported on LWN, and the more recent GNOME census, he ranks developers and employers based on the number of changes made to various pieces of the X.org tree during the development of 1.9 (April 2 to August 20). The statistics are broken up along functional lines into several categories: X implementation, X input drivers, user space video drivers, Pixman, X11 conformance testing, and X documentation. "Of course lines of code and changeset are far from being a good metric to see actually how the development happened. But still, it does represents something." |
| Vignatti: X Census (for 1.9) |
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| The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 2, 2010 is available.
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| [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 2, 2010 |
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| On his blog, Harald Welte writesabout work he is doing as part of the gpl-violations.org project. "Right now I'm facing what I'd consider the most outrageous case that I've been involved so far: A manufacturer of Linux-based embedded devices (no, I will not name the company) really has the guts to go in front of court and sue another company for modifying the firmware on those devices. More specifically, the only modifications to program code are on the GPL licensed parts of the software. None of the proprietary userspace programs are touched! None of the proprietary programs are ever distributed either."If the manufacturer were to succeed with its claims, it could jeopardize many different projects that provide alternate code for devices, he says.
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| Welte: More GPL enforcement work again.. and a very surreal but important case |
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| Issue 21 of the GNOME Journalis
out; topics covered include simple real-time games, Grilo, and an interview
with Bradley Kuhn.
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| GNOME Journal Issue 21 released |
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| CentOShas updated C5: httpd(multiple vulnerabilities) and C5: kernel(privilege escalation).
Debianhas updated wireshark(arbitrary code execution).
Fedorahas updated socat(F13, F12:
arbitrary code execution).
Mandrivahas updated libgdiplus(arbitrary code execution), perl-libwww-perl(unexpected download
filename), and openssl(denial of
service).
openSUSEhas updated acroread(multiple vulnerabilities).
SUSEhas updated kernel(multiple
vulnerabilities) and acroread(multiple
vulnerabilities).
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| Security advisories for Wednesday |
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| On her blog, Máirín Duffy describesfour archetypes of Fedora users (Caroline Casual-User, Pamela Packager, Connie Community, and Nancy Ninja) and how they relate to updates of the distribution. Fedora has been discussing its update policy for a bit and Duffy uses the user stories to present her thoughts on how to proceed. "Pamela wants updates to be constant throughout a release, no holds barred — she wants the latest Gimp and she wants it yesterday. Caroline just wants her computer to work — "please don't change a thing — it worked yesterday — if it breaks before my presentation I'm screwed!"Can both their needs be met? I think so! But it’s easy to completely miss where interests and needs can both be met when the language is so easily interpreted to mean the problem is untenable." |
| Duffy: A story about updates and people |
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![[Andrew Morton and Linus Torvalds]](http://lwn.net/images/conf/2010/lc-brazil/Linus+Andrew-sm.jpg) Linus Torvalds rarely makes appearances at conferences, and it's even
less common for him to get up in front of the crowd and speak. He made an
exception for LinuxCon Brazil, though, where he and Andrew Morton appeared
in a question and answer session led by Linux Foundation director Jim
Zemlin. The resulting conversation covered many aspects of kernel
development, its processes, and its history. Click below (subscribers
only) for the full report from São Paulo.
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| [$] LinuxCon Brazil: Q&A with Linus and Andrew |
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| The Debian Project has put up a brief noticeon the
passing of longtime contributor Frans Pop. "Frans was involved in
Debian as a maintainer of several packages, a supporter of the S/390 port,
and one of the most involved members of the Debian Installer team. He was a
Debian Listmaster, editor and release manager of the Installation Guide and
the release notes, as well as a Dutch translator." |
| Debian Project mourns the loss of Frans Pop |
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| The first release candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0 is available for testing. "No changes in commands, interfaces or APIs are expected between this release candidate and the final version. Applications which will deploy on 9.0 can and should test against 9.0rc1. Depending on bug reports, there may or may not be more release candidates before the final release." |
| PostgreSQL 9.0 Release Candidate 1 |
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| KDE has updated the Applications, Platform and Plasma Workspaces to 4.5.1.
"This release will make 4.5 users life more pleasant by adding a
number of important bugfixes, bringing more stability and better
functionality to the Plasma Desktop, and many applications and
utilities." |
| KDE SC 4.5.1 Released |
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| Debianhas updated openssl(denial
of service).
Fedorahas updated bogofilter(F13, F12:
denial of service) and php-pear-cas(F13, F12:
multiple vulnerabilities).
Mandrivahas updated libhx(arbitrary code execution).
Ubuntuhas updated bogofilter(denial of service) and libwww-perl(unexpected download filename).
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| Tuesday's security updates |
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| Many have criticized syslog-ng, a replacement for the syslog logging
daemon with many additional features, for not being open enough. Syslog-ng
has a closed-source commercial version and keeps the entire code base under
a single copyright by requiring copyright transfer for contributions, which
has been a sore spot in the eyes of many people. This may be part of the
cause for syslog-ng failing to become the default system-logging daemon of
modern Linux distributions. Now the project seeks to relieve these concerns
and attract a wider contributor base with a new licensing model. Subscribers can click below for the full article from this week's Development page.
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| [$] A licensing change for syslog-ng |
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| Over at ComputerWorld UK, Simon Phipps saysthere is nothing to celebrate in the recent announcement [PDF]that MPEG-LA will not charge royalties on "web uses"of the H.264 codec for the remaining life of the patents it administers. "First, the H.264-format video needs to be created - but that isn't free under this move. Then it needs to be served up for streaming - but that isn't free under this move. There then needs to be support for decoding it in your browser - but adding that isn't free under this move. Finally it needs to be displayed on your screen. [...] The only part of this sequence being left untaxed is the final one. Importantly, they are not offering to leave the addition of support for H.264 decoding in your browser untaxed. In particular, this means the Mozilla Foundation would have to pay to include the technology in Firefox."He also posits that MPEG-LA may try to join forces with Oracle and Paul Allen's Interval Research to create a three-way patent attack on Google—this time against WebM.
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| Hold The Celebrations; H.264 Is Not The Sort Of Free That Matters (ComputerWorld UK) |
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