[$] Time namespaces
The kernel's namespace abstraction allows different groups
of processes to have different views of the system. This feature is most often
used with containers; it allows each container to have its own view of the set
of running processes, the network environment, the filesystem hierarchy, and
more. One aspect of the system that remains universal, though, is the concept
of the system time. The recently posted time namespace patch set (from Dmitry
Safonov with a lot of work by Andrei Vagin) seeks to change that.
Mir 1.0 released
The Ubuntu blog has announced the release of version 1.0.0
of the Mir display server. "Whether for building a device or for writing a
shell for the desktop, Mir can give you a graphics stack that is fast, light,
and secure. The Mir graphical stack works across different graphics platforms
and driver models and is easy to integrate into your kiosk, digital signage, or
purpose built graphical solution. It was first conceived over 6 years ago as
part of an initiative by Canonical to unify the graphical environment across all
devices, including desktop, TV, and mobile devices and continues to be developed
with new features and modern standards."
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (hylafax,
sympa, and texlive-bin), Fedora (curl and gitolite3), Mageia (bouncycastle,
ghostscript, and libx11), openSUSE (webkit2gtk3), Oracle (spice and spice-gtk
and spice-gtk and spice-server), Red Hat (rubygem-smart_proxy_dynflow, spice and
spice-gtk, and spice-gtk and spice-server), Scientific Linux (spice and spice-
gtk and spice-gtk and spice-server), and SUSE (ImageMagick, kernel, liblouis,
openslp, and python-paramiko).
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (glusterfs,
php5, reportbug, and suricata), openSUSE (chromium and exempi), Red Hat
(openstack-rabbitmq-container), SUSE (couchdb, crowbar, crowbar-core, crowbar-
ha, crowbar-init, crowbar-openstack, crowbar-ui, gdm, OpenStack, pango, and
webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (bind9, lcms, lcms2, and lcms2).
After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside (The New Yorker)
A story in The New Yorker magazine may help explain some of
the timing of the recent upheavals in kernel-land. Longtime followers of kernel
development will find the article to be a mixed bag—over the top in spots,
fairly accurate elsewhere. "Torvalds’s decision to step aside came after The New
Yorker asked him a series of questions about his conduct for a story on
complaints about his abusive behavior discouraging women from working as Linux-
kernel programmers. In a response to The New Yorker, Torvalds said, 'I am very
proud of the Linux code that I invented and the impact it has had on the world.
I am not, however, always proud of my inability to communicate well with
others—this is a lifelong struggle for me. To anyone whose feelings I have hurt,
I am deeply sorry.'"
