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- StudioDave Does A Hardware Review And Meets Ubuntu 8.10 (Linux Journal)Yesterday
- Over at Linux Journal, Dave Phillips picks a laptop and distribution for his mobile audio needs with some fairly specific requirements. He looks at problems that he ran into along with solutions that he found. "I had specific intentions for this machine. Above all it had to run AVSynthesis, which meant that it would need accelerated 3D graphics capability along with support for high-quality realtime audio. I also wanted to install a complete environment for building a specific version of Csound 5.09 and for compiling Ardour 3 from its SVN source code, which meant that I would need a relatively up-to-date Linux distribution. Other required components included a recent version of JACK and the latest Java SDK."
- KDE 4 Video Editor Kdenlive Released (KDE.News)Yesterday
- KDE.News has a quick look at the 0.7 release of Kdenlive, the first KDE 4 release of the non-linear video editor. "This closes another gap of the free desktop world: a usable open source video editor. Kdenlive has the potential to become the Amarok or K3b of video editors, offering comfort and elegance so far not available in alternative programs. The feature set looks amazingly complete and far exceeds the KDE 3 version already."
- Monday's security advisoriesYesterday
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Debian has updated imlib2 (arbitrary code execution), wireshark (multiple vulnerabilities), jailer (denial of service via symlink), phpmyadmin (cross-site scripting).
Slackware has updated samba (arbitrary memory disclosure), ruby (DNS cache poisoning).
Ubuntu has updated ImageMagick (arbitrary code execution), libvorbis (arbitrary code execution).
- Monty on MySQL 5.1Yesterday
- Here's an interesting, detailed posting from Michael "Monty" Widenius on the problematic MySQL 5.1 release. "So what went wrong with MySQL 5.1? This is surprisingly not because our developers don't do a good job. On the contrary we have an excellent dedicated team of developers that are very good in what they are doing. However, even an excellent team can't work if the conditions are not right."
- What's new in Fedora 10 (Heise)Yesterday
- Heise has a detailed review of Fedora 10, written by Fedora contributor Thorsten Leemhuis. "Compared with other distributions, Cambridge uses a rather sparingly extended Linux version 2.6.27.5 kernel. The largest of the patches used in the Fedora kernel's source RPM provide support for KMS [kernel mode setting], squashfs and utrace as well as the Atl2, At76, Lirc and Nouveau drivers. In addition, the Fedora developers have updated the Ext4 support to largely match that of the main development branch of Linux which is currently due to produce the 2.6.28 kernel; with this kernel version, the kernel hackers will complete the file system's main development phase."