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Canonical pulls the plug on Kubuntu

os-news — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:46:07 +0000

Kubuntu lead developer Jonathan Riddell has sent out an announcement that
Canonical will no longer be funding work on the KDE-based Kubuntu
distribution. “The practical changes are I won’t be able to work on KDE bits in my
work time after 12.04 and there won’t be paid support for versions
after 12.04. This is a rational business decision, Kubuntu has not
been a business success after 7 years of trying, and it is unrealistic
to expect it to continue to have financial resources put into it.“

Mueller: Apple’s iterative approach to FRAND abuse is not for the faint of heart

os-news — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:16:16 +0000

Florian Mueller’s update
on the patent battles between Apple, Motorola, and Samsung has a clear
slant, but it is still a worthwhile look at how the mobile patent wars may
be settled. There is little cheer for the free software world here.
“They hope that the disruptive impact of such injunctions on Apple’s
business will force Apple to grant them a license to all of its
non-standards-related patents (such as its multitouch inventions) as part
of a broader settlement. In other words, they want to use FRAND patents to
reach a state of ‘mutually assured destruction’, in which the notion of
intellectual property would become meaningless between large players that
have a critical mass of patents (it would merely serve to exclude new
entrants without large patent portfolios).“

Stable kernels 3.0.20 and 3.2.5

os-news — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:01:22 +0000

The 3.0.20 and 3.2.5 stable kernel updates have been
released. They are single-patch updates containing the fix to the ASPM-related problem that would significantly
increase power consumption on some systems. This patch has been treated
with some care: it seems to work, but nobody really knows if it might cause
behavioral problems on some obscure hardware. That said, at this point, it
seems safe enough to have found its way into a stable update.

Security advisories for Monday

os-news — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:49:30 +0000

Debian has updated cacti (fixes a
regression in the previous update), xen-qemu-dm (code execution), and apache2 (multiple vulnerabilities).

Fedora has updated bip (F16;
F15: code execution).

Oracle has updated php OL6;
OL5; OL4:
denial of service/remote code execution), ghostscript (OL6; OL5; OL4: multiple vulnerabilities), and OL5: php53 (remote code execution).

SUSE has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).

Ubuntu has updated firefox (multiple
vulnerabilities), mozvoikko (multiple
vulnerabilities), and ubufox & webfav
(multiple vulnerabilities).

Five open source hardware projects that could change the world (The H)

os-news — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:49:34 +0000

Here’s a
lengthy survey of open hardware projects in The H. “The
price/performance of a general purpose computer built using FPGAs wouldn’t
be great when compared with commodity gear, but the technology excels in
many niche and specialist applications, such as in areas of computing that
make use of dedicated hardware to bring high performance to tasks such as
signal processing, encryption and networking. Since you can program many
hardware paths in an FPGA they are well suited to jobs that can be broken
down and processed in parallel, and some of the more powerful devices pack
millions of logic blocks and have a transistor count well into the
billions, with a blisteringly fast serial bandwidth that is measured in
terabits/second.“

"Open Advice" from 42 free software contributors

os-news — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:12:10 +0000

“Open Advice” is a new book consisting
of essays from some 42 community authors; it is available in print form or
downloadable under the CC-BY-SA license. “This book is the answer to
‘What would you have liked to know when you started contributing?’. The
authors give insights into the many different talents it takes to make a
successful software project, coding of course but also design, translation,
marketing and other skills. We are here to give you a head start if you are
new. And if you have been contributing for a while already, we are here to
give you some insight into other areas and projects.“

Cables Reveal Extent of US Copyright Pressure on Sweden

os-news — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:41:07 +0000

“Among the treasure troves of recently released WikiLeaks cables, we find one whose significance has bypassed Swedish media. In short: every law proposal, every ordinance, and every governmental report hostile to the net, youth, and civil liberties here in Sweden in recent years have been commissioned by the US government and industry interests.” How such prestigious nations with such long and proud histories, like Sweden, The Netherlands, and so on, can succumb to pressure from a former colony is beyond me. We should know better.

EU Regulators Want Google to Halt New Privacy Policy

os-news — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:41:02 +0000

“A group of European regulators has written to Google calling on it to halt the introduction of its new privacy policy, saying it needs to investigate whether the proposals sufficiently protect users’ personal data.” I’d rather regulators are on top of this now than when it’s too late and we’re all plugged into the Google Hivemind Overlord.

Samsung Says EU Probe Will Find it Compliant

os-news — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:40:59 +0000

“Samsung, in its first acknowledgment of the European Commission’s antitrust investigation of its patent licensing practices, Friday said it believed the commission would ultimately conclude the company complies with the rules. The investigation arose out of Samsung’s dispute with Apple over trademarks and patents that cover smartphones and tablet computers.”

open_source_flash_projects – [Logging Tools]

os-news — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:40:41 +0000

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    * [[XFLAS2]] - A MTASC & Flash IDE compatible logging solution, configurable at runtime or through xml configs, with automatic reflection.

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