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Garfield: A Look at PHP's Continuing Evolution 27 Aug 2013 | 01:54 am
Larry Garfield introduces some recent changes to the PHP language. "PHP 5.5 added a feature called generators. Generators are in some sense a greatly abbreviated syntax for iterators, but being so sim...
Security advisories for Monday 26 Aug 2013 | 09:09 pm
Debian has updated chromium-browser (multiple vulnerabilities) and python-django (cross-site scripting). Fedora has updated php (F19: multiple vulnerabilities), and python (F19: man in the middle att...
OSTree 2013.6 released 26 Aug 2013 | 06:48 pm
OSTree 2013.6 has been released. "It’s a tool for parallel installation and atomic upgrades of general-purpose Linux-kernel based operating systems, and designed to integrate well with a systemd/GNU u...
Kernel prepatch 3.11-rc7 26 Aug 2013 | 06:07 am
The 3.11-rc7 prepatch has been tagged and released. As of this writing, there is no announcement on linux-kernel, but Linus did post a brief item on Google+. "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just...
Clasen: GNOME 3.10 sightings 24 Aug 2013 | 01:16 am
After releasing GNOME 3.9.90, which is the first beta of the 3.9 development branch, Matthias Clasen reflects on what is coming in GNOME 3.10. New features include a combined system status menu, some ...
Balazs: KDE human interface guidelines: First steps 24 Aug 2013 | 12:51 am
On his blog, Björn Balazs writes about the recent effort to "reboot" the KDE human interface guidelines (HIG). There are three major sections in the HIG (structure, behavior, and presentation) and the...
More on Statistics (openSUSE blog) 23 Aug 2013 | 11:43 pm
The openSUSE blog has an article with some in-depth statistics on the reach of the distribution. It includes various numbers and graphs on downloads, installations, the use of the Open Build Service, ...
Calibre 1.0 released 23 Aug 2013 | 08:25 pm
Version 1.0 of the Calibre electronic book management system has been released. "Lots of new features have been added to calibre in the last year — a grid view of book covers, a new, faster database b...
Friday's security updates 23 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
CentOS has updated Xen4CentOS kernel (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated kernel (F19; F18: two vulnerabilities) and python-django (F19: cross-site scripting). Gentoo has updated acroread ...
Garrett: Default offerings, target audiences, and the future of Fedora 22 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm
Matthew Garrett argues for a clearer focus for the Fedora project. "Bluntly, if you have a well-defined goal, people are more likely to either work towards that goal or go and do something else. If yo...
