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LinuxCon Japan Call for Participation

szo, 2010-03-13 00:01

LinuxCon Japan, formerly known as the Japan Linux Symposium, has announced its call for participation (CFP). This Linux Foundation sponsored conference will be held in Tokyo September 27-29. The CFP lists a number of topic areas that are of particular interest including desktop Linux, embedded and mobile Linux, Linux adoption, and so on; it closes on May 14. "LinuxCon Japan is the premiere Linux conference in Asia that brings together a unique blend of core developers, administrators, users, community managers and industry experts. It is designed not only to encourage collaboration but also to support future interaction between Japan and other Asia Pacific countries and the rest of the global Linux community. The conference includes presentations, tutorials, birds of a feather sessions, keynotes, sponsored mini-summits."

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Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit keynotes announced

p, 2010-03-12 23:53

The Linux Foundation has announced the program for the Collaboration Summit to be held April 14-16 in San Francisco. This is an invitation-only event, though invitations can still be requested. Highlights include a full-day session on Meego, the Linux kernel roundtable, keynotes by Josh Berkus, Dr. Daniel Frye, Jim Zemlin, and others, a cloud computing roundtable, and more. "The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is the only event where a true cross-section of leaders from the Linux developer, industry and end user communities meet face-to-face to tackle todays most pressing issues facing Linux, including technical development, legal topics, ISV porting and end user requirements."

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PyPy 1.2 released

p, 2010-03-12 20:13

Version 1.2 of PyPy - an alternative implementation of the Python interpreter - has been released. "This version 1.2 is a major milestone and it is the first release to ship a Just-in-Time compiler that is known to be faster than CPython (and unladen swallow) on some real-world applications (or the best benchmarks we could get for them). The main theme for the 1.2 release is speed." It's still not quite ready for production use, but it appears to be getting a lot closer.

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Security updates for Friday

p, 2010-03-12 19:53

Debian has updated Egroupware (multiple vulnerabilities) and MoinMoin (multiple vulnerabilities).

Fedora has updated nss (F12: TLS man-in-the-middle plaintext injection) and cups (fix for earlier denial of service fix).

Mandriva has updated ncpfs (multiple vulnerabilities).

Ubuntu has updated MoinMoin (multiple vulnerabilities).

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Building an open source business (opensource.com)

p, 2010-03-12 19:16

Over at opensource.com, OpenNMS's Tarus Balog looks at the process of starting an open source business. This article covers much of the same material as his recent SCALE 8x keynote. "You might think that I was motivated by some sort of idealistic love of open source software. Nothing could be further from the truth. At the time, I was still running a Windows desktop. I undertook the OpenNMS project because I believed one thing: in the area of network management, open source represents the best business solution."

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Fedora's "stable release updates vision"

p, 2010-03-12 15:59

The Fedora board has, in response to ongoing discussions about updates to its releases (as covered in the March 11 Weekly Edition), adopted a "vision statement" on how Fedora releases should be maintained. "Stable releases should provide a consistent user experience throughout the lifecycle, and only fix bugs and security issues. Stable releases should not be used for tracking upstream version closely when this is likely to change the user experience beyond fixing bugs and security issues."

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Google's RE2 regular expression library

p, 2010-03-12 15:25

Google has announced the release of its RE2 library under a BSDish license. "At Google, we use regular expressions as part of the interface to many external and internal systems, including Code Search, Sawzall, and Bigtable. Those systems process large amounts of data; exponential run time would be a serious problem. On a more practical note, these are multithreaded C++ programs with fixed-size stacks: the unbounded stack usage in typical regular expression implementations leads to stack overflows and server crashes. To solve both problems, we've built a new regular expression engine, called RE2, which is based on automata theory and guarantees that searches complete in linear time with respect to the size of the input and in a fixed amount of stack space." More information can be found on the RE2 project page.

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Simon Phipps elected as OSI director (The H)

cs, 2010-03-11 21:38

The H reports that the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has elected Simon Phipps, formerly Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, to the board of directors. "As a director, Phipps hopes to help the organisation change so that it becomes more member-oriented, more active in promoting open source in education, in policy development and possibly in organisational support for open source projects; "My goal as a Director will be to facilitate that change, a change that is already well under way following recent face to face discussions and the great work that Andrew Oliver and Danese Cooper have already put in"."

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Embedded Linux Conference 2010 Program is available

cs, 2010-03-11 20:33

This year's Embedded Linux Conference, which will be held in San Francisco April 12-14, has announced that its program is now available. The keynote speakers will be Greg Kroah-Hartman ("Android: a Case Study of an Embedded Linux Project") and Matt Asay ("Embedded in 2010: an End to the Entropy?") along with a whole slate of over 50 presentations, tutorials, and BoFs. "This is your chance to meet leading developers from the embedded Linux community, and learn about the latest changes in Linux. Also, you can talk to engineers working on real products at some of the largest CE companies in the world, describing how they solved real issues in their own development projects." Click below for the full announcement.

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Linux Arpeggiators, Part 1 (Linux Journal)

cs, 2010-03-11 20:25

Dave Phillips looks at arpeggiators for Linux. "An arpeggio is a musical technique whereby the notes of a chord are played in succession rather than all at once. The order of the chord notes in this succession may follow a strict set of rules or they may be played in purely random sequence. A device that acts upon a chord in this manner is known as an arpeggiator."

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Security advisories for Thursday

cs, 2010-03-11 20:24

Debian has updated kvm (multiple vulnerabilities), dpkg (path traversal), and kernel (privilege escalation, denial of service).

Fedora has updated F12: samba (multiple vulnerabilities).

Mandriva has updated virtualbox (unspecified vulnerability) and squid (denial of service).

Slackware has updated pidgin (multiple vulnerabilities).

Ubuntu has updated apache (multiple vulnerabilities) and dpkg (path traversal).

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Meet Ubuntu Linux's new CEO (Q&A) (CNET)

cs, 2010-03-11 17:15

Over at CNET, Stephen Shankland has a fairly lengthy interview with Canonical's new CEO Jane Silber. "But is there more urgency about profit now? Silber: There is a sense of great opportunity right now. When we started Ubuntu in year one, we didn't put a strong push on trying to sell Canonical services, not because we were not interested, but it's hard to build a business around selling services around an operating system that nobody is using. We knew we needed to gain a user base and momentum before we could sell services. That user base is now there. There is urgency and momentum around that at a level we hadn't necessarily seen in the first couple years."

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[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 11, 2010

cs, 2010-03-11 03:52

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 11, 2010 is available.

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Meanwhile, back in Utah...

sze, 2010-03-10 20:03

The SCO case has long since dropped off the radar for most. It is worth noting, though, that the Novell "slander of title" trial is now underway in Utah. Groklaw has detailed coverage of the testimony thus far. "Why did Novell slander SCO's title? Because of Linux. Linux started as a hobbyist tool. It's open source; 'nobody can be completely sure where the code comes from'. Starting around 2000, IBM inserted into Linux stuff that belonged to SCO. SCO sued, and started their licensing program (SCOsource). Novell stated that SCO doesn't have the copyrights and can't sue IBM."

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Wednesday's security updates

sze, 2010-03-10 19:22

Debian has updated tdiary (cross-site scripting).

Fedora has updated samba (F11: filesystem access privilege escalation).

Mandriva has updated php (two safe_mode bypass vulnerabilities).

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Mozilla to update the MPL

sze, 2010-03-10 16:09

The Mozilla Foundation has launched a process to update the Mozilla Public License. The project is described this way:

We've been using version 1.1 of the Mozilla Public License for about a decade now. Its spirit has served us well, helping to communicate some of the values that underpin our large and growing community. However, some of its wording may be showing its age. Keeping both those things in mind, we're launching this process to update the license, hoping to modernize and simplify it while still keeping the things that have made the license and the Mozilla project such a success.

While the update process is inspired by the GPLv3 update, the objectives are far less ambitious: Mozilla would like to smooth various rough edges without making major changes to the license. They hope to have the process complete - after releasing three drafts for comments - by November of this year.

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Schwartz: Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal

sze, 2010-03-10 15:34

Jonathan Schwartz writes about patent attacks, and Apple's attack on Android in particular. "Having watched this movie play out many times, suing a competitor typically makes them more relevant, not less. Developers I know arent getting less interested in Googles Android platform, theyre getting more interested - Apples actions are enhancing that interest." He also says that Microsoft tried to shake down Sun with patent claims on OpenOffice.org.

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European Parliament pushes back on ACTA

sze, 2010-03-10 15:25

Swedish MEP Christian Engström reports that the European Parliament has passed a resolution coming out against the secretive ACTA copyright treaty negotiations and demanding transparency in the process. The vote was rather definitive: 633 for, 13 against. "At last, the elected representatives in the parliament have sent a strong message. We have shown that we do not accept secrecy. We have shown that we are prepared to stand up for a free internet open to everybody."

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[$] Open source and the Morevna project

sze, 2010-03-10 15:08

Konstatin Dmitriev's Morevna Project is to 2-D animation what the Blender Foundation's Open movie projects have been for 3-D. The goal is to produce a production-quality, full-length animated feature, using only open source software, and license the source content and final product under free, re-use-friendly terms. Along the way, the work provides stress-testing, feedback, and development help to the open source software used, while raising awareness of the quality of the code. Subscribers can click below for a look at the project from this week's edition.

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Texas Linux Fest announces 2010 program

sze, 2010-03-10 05:53

Texas Linux Fest has announced the initial list of speakers and presentations for its inaugural event. Keynote speakers include Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier and Randal L. Schwartz, with additional presentations by Linux, free software, and open source experts such as Jon "maddog" Hall, Amber Graner, Bradley Kuhn, and Max Spevack. The event will take place on Saturday, April 10th, in Austin Texas. Registration is available online. The complete list of talks is available as well.

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