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Jul 31 2010
5:21am		[$] Promoting a free software project
There are many good reasons to promote a free software project, but perhaps the biggest is to attract more users and contributors; it's difficult to do anything with an application that you don't know about. But many projects fail to effectively ge... more
Jul 31 2010
5:15am		AppArmor set to be merged for 2.6.36
It has been more than four years since LWN first reported on the AppArmor security module and the opposition to its addition to the mainline. Over that time, there has been much discussion of pathname-based security, the value of having multiple sec... more
Jul 31 2010
4:23am		Desktop summit scheduled for August, 2011
The GNOME and KDE projects have announced that they will be holding a joint desktop summit in Berlin in August, 2011. "The 2011 Desktop Summit will build on the first Summit's success. More than 1,000 contributors from more than 50 countries are exp... more
Jul 31 2010
4:02am		Security advisories for Friday
Debian has updated openldap (denial of service). Fedora has updated kvirc (F13, F12: remote command execution) and F12: pidgin (denial of service). Red Hat has updated java (multiple vulnerabilities) and freetype (RHEL 3, RHEL 4&5: multiple vul... more
Jul 31 2010
12:12am		Bacon: Red Hat, Canonical and GNOME contributions
Jono Bacon responds to the GNOME census and the criticisms of Canonical which have followed. "What the report doesn’t take into account are upstream contributions that are built on the GNOME platform but (a) not part of official GNOME modules, and... more
Jul 30 2010
8:02am		Reddit interviews Richard Stallman
Reddit has posted an extensive interview with Richard Stallman. "The main shortcoming of Linux is at the level of device support. The obstacle there isn't a lack of ability among Linux developers, but rather the use of devices whose specs are secr... more
Jul 30 2010
5:25am		Full GNOME census report now available
When Dave Neary announced his GNOME Census report, he stated that the full report would only be available to paid customers until October, when it would be released under the CC Attribution-Sharealike license. Things have changed, though, and the fu... more
Jul 30 2010
3:25am		Thursday's security updates
CentOS has updated lvm2-cluster (C5: local privilege escalation). Mandriva has updated openldap (denial of service, possible code execution). openSUSE has updated firefox (update to 3.6.8).... more
Jul 30 2010
12:59am		Oracle shuts down open source test servers (iTnews)
Here's a report on iTnews saying that Oracle has abruptly shut down a set of servers used to perform quality assurance on PostgreSQL releases. "Sun Microsystems - and for a short time its new owner Oracle - had provided three member servers to ensure... more
Jul 29 2010
11:33pm		The first Rakudo Star release
The first of a regular series of Rakudo Star releases has been announced. "Rakudo Star is aimed at 'early adopters' of Perl 6. We know that it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and there are some advanced pieces of the Perl ... more
Jul 29 2010
10:28am		[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 29, 2010
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 29, 2010 is available.... more
Jul 29 2010
7:18am		Jos Poortvliet named openSUSE Community Manager
The openSUSE project has announced that Jos Poortvliet will be its new community manager. "Jos commented, 'The opportunity to become part of the international openSUSE community is very exciting. There are a great number of interesting development... more
Jul 29 2010
6:54am		BlueDevil: a new KDE bluetooth stack
The KDE software collection has a new BlueTooth stack called "BlueDevil." "This release should be stable enough to be used by everybody, but we’re looking specially for advanced users with 'compiling skills' so we can get quick feedback and fix as many bugs as possible."... more
Jul 29 2010
3:33am		Wednesday's security updates
Debian has updated xulrunner (multiple vulnerabilities) and gnupg2 (potential remote code execution). Red Hat has updated lvm2-cluster (RHEL5: local privilege escalation).... more
Jul 29 2010
2:19am		[$] WordPress, themes, and derivative works
The WordPress community witnessed the end of a high-profile war of words last week when the distributor of a popular commercial theme for the blogging platform agreed to license some of his work under the GPL. But was that relicensing really necessa... more
Jul 28 2010
11:27pm		Neary: GNOME Census
Dave Neary has posted the highlights of his work to determine where contributions to GNOME come from. "While over 70% of GNOME developers identify themselves as volunteers, over 70% of the commits to the GNOME releases are made by paid contributors. ... more
Jul 28 2010
11:13pm		GNOME 3.0 release delayed
The much-anticipated release of GNOME 3.0—scheduled for September—has been pushed back to March 2011 due to quality issues in the code. The announcement was made at GUADEC (GNOME users' and developers' European conference), which is being... more
Jul 28 2010
7:02am		Mueller: The OIN's Linux System
Florian Mueller comments on a recent announcement by the Open Invention Network (OIN). "In other words, if you become an OIN licensee, you make your own patents available on those terms and get everyone else's on the same terms, but you can still us... more
Jul 28 2010
6:48am		Novell opens Linux appliance gallery (Channel Register)
Channel Register reports that Novell is launching the SUSE Gallery. "It has been a year since Novell launched its SUSE Appliance Program, which offers a set of online tools, dubbed SUSE Studio, for spinning up software appliances based on its SUSE L... more
Jul 28 2010
4:03am		MediaWiki and Script Translation for the Morevna Project (Free Software Magazine)
Free Software Magazine looks at the use of MediaWiki by the Morevna Project. "Putting together a collaborative film production involves a lot of bits and pieces. Workflow is unclear at the beginning, and has to be developed organically. That argues a... more

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