« LWN.net Weekly Edition [Sun, 27 Jul 2014] » Calibre

Weekly summary of what has happened in the free software world. Articles in this issue: On satellite and aerial imagery for free software Steam comes to Linux Genealogy research with Gramps The security of git. centos. org Security quotes of the week 2014 Linux Security Summit schedule published First Release of LibreSSL Portable Available OpenSSL fork LibreSSL is declared “unsafe for Linux” (Ars Technica) Google’s “Project Zero ansible: unspecified vulnerability claws–mail: code execution docker–io: privilege escalation eglibc: privilege escalation java–1.7.0–openjdk: multiple vulnerabilities kernel: multiple vulnerabilities libav: code execution pnp4nagios: cross–site scripting ror40–rubygem–activerecord: SQL injection ruby193–rubygem–activerecord: SQL injection transmission: code execution Kernel release status Quotes of the week Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election Anatomy of a system call, part 2 Control groups, part 3: First steps to control Filesystem notification, part 2: A deeper investigation of inotify Debian adds continuous integration Distribution quote of the week Debian 7.6 released FreeBSD 9.3 released Distribution newsletters Boyer: At the playground Best Linux Desktop: Top 10 Candidates (Datamation) The glibc s390 ABI break KDE Plasma 5.0 GNU CSSC 1.4.0 available Announcing Gitorious 3.1 AppStream 0.7 available State of Rust 0.11.0 Development newsletters from the past week Day: Sandboxed applications for GNOME Mozilla: Improving JPEG Image Encoding Justin Miller on how Mapbox runs like an open source project (Opensource. com) Tracing Summit 2014 Call for Presentations