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Blog posts
Posted on July 31, 2010 by planet.gentoo.org

Planet Earth

New Packages
Posted on July 30, 2010 by packages.gentoo.org

Larry the Cow
media-plugins/gst-plugins-vp8-0.10.19 plugin for gstreamer
virtual/perl-XSLoader-0.10 Virtual for XSLoader
perl-core/XSLoader-0.10 Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
dev-util/cdebootstrap-0.5.6 Debian/Ubuntu bootstrap scripts written in C
dev-libs/libdebian-installer-0.74 Library of common debian-installer functions
net-nds/gosa-plugin-samba-2.6.10 GOsa plugin for Samba integration
net-nds/gosa-core-2.6.10 LDAP administration frontend for user administration.
games-puzzle/wizznic-0.9 Block-clearing puzzle game
dev-ruby/hexoid-0.2.2 Generate Ruby style object ids
media-video/bdsup2sub-4.0.0 A tool to convert and tweak bitmap based subtitle streams

Blog posts
Posted between July 29, 2010 and July 3, 2010 by planet.gentoo.org

Planet Earth
Amadeusz Żołnowski GSoC weekly progress: week 9
GSoC weekly progress: week 8
GSoC weekly progress: week 7
GSoC weekly progress: week 6
Christian Faulhammer Some things make me speechless
Another new notebook
The small news
Constanze Hausner Progress Report #7 for POSIX-Capabilities Project
Detecting needed capabilities with capable_probe
Progress Report #6 for POSIX-Capabilities Project
David Abbott Podcast 79 Clone a Hard Drive | Meet the New Gentoo Council
Detlev Casanova GSoC - Week 7 : An API
GSoC - Week 6 : One problem, 2 solutions
Diego E. Pettenò Ruby 1.9 vs Python 3
Really want Ruby 1.9 generally available? Read on.
Too many alternatives are not always so good
Kerberos and libvirt
Gentoo, a three-headed dog, and me — Kerberos coming to PAM
Debunking ccache myths redux
Don't try autoconf 2.66 at home just yet!
The three challenges of automated testing
Domen Kožar GPyPi2 — Google Summer of Code week #7 and #8
GPyPi2 — Google Summer of Code week #6
Joachim Bartosik GSoC: Gentoo Recruiters weekly progress report #9
GSoC: Gentoo Recruiters weekly progress report #8
Weekly report #7
Josh Saddler Documentation status report
Markos Chandras Should we care about the numbers or the quality?
Matti Bickel EOL for USE=concurrentmodphp
Using multiple PHP versions
Why you want PHP-5.3.2
PHP-5.3.2 availability in ~arch imminent
PHP-5.3 status
Olivier Crête Removing leftover Facebook Chat Jabber contacts on Maemo
Paweł Hajdan, Jr. Why having short bug queues is good
Piotr Jaroszyński Paludis 0.48.2 Released
Rafael Goncalves Martins GSoC - g-Octave - weekly report #9
GSoC - g-Octave - weekly report #8
[ANN] g-octave 0.3
GSoC - g-Octave - weekly report #7
GSoC - g-Octave - weekly report #6
Richard Freeman EC2 Custom Kernels
Sebastian Pipping Layman 1.4.1 released
Layman 1.4.0 released
Steve Dibb mplayer + libbluray support
Stuart Longland Gentoo/MIPS: Bootstrap of new stages
Zhang Le Loongson 2F N32 stage3 is now available on gentoo mirrors
Type special characters in xterm in N900

GLSA 201006-21: net-irc/unrealircd
Posted on June 14, 2010 by Gentoo Security Team

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UnrealIRCd: Multiple vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities in UnrealIRCd might allow remote attackers to compromise the "unrealircd" account, or cause a Denial of Service.
See GLSA 201006-21 for more information.

Gentoo at LinuxTag 2010 in Berlin
Posted on June 7, 2010 by Joshua Saddler

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LinuxTag 2010 runs from June 9th to June 12th in Berlin, Germany. With more than 10,000 visitors last year, it is one of the biggest Linux and open source events in Europe.

You will find the Gentoo booth at Hall 7.2a, Booth 203a. Come and visit us! You will meet many of our developers and users, talk with us, plus get some of the Gentoo merchandise you have always wanted.

Discuss this!

Alex Legler contributed the draft for this announcement.

Gentoo Screenshot Contest 2010
Posted on June 6, 2010 by David Abbott

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After the success of the 2009 Screenshot Contest the Contest Team is doing it again!

Gentoo Users, Developers, and Staffers are encouraged to submit their sweetest screenshots. Please head over to the 2010 Contest Page for all of the details.

You can visit this forum post for comments and suggestions. OK enough talk, get started tricking out that desktop.

GLSA 201006-20: net-misc/asterisk
Posted on June 4, 2010 by Gentoo Security Team

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Asterisk: Multiple vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities in Asterisk might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition, or conduct other attacks.
See GLSA 201006-20 for more information.

GLSA 201006-19: www-apps/bugzilla
Posted on June 4, 2010 by Gentoo Security Team

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Bugzilla: Multiple vulnerabilities
Bugzilla is prone to multiple medium severity vulnerabilities.
See GLSA 201006-19 for more information.

GLSA 201006-18: dev-java/sun-jre-bin (and 2 more packages)
Posted on June 4, 2010 by Gentoo Security Team

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Oracle JRE/JDK: Multiple vulnerabilities
The Oracle JDK and JRE are vulnerable to multiple unspecified vulnerabilities.
See GLSA 201006-18 for more information.

Gentoo White Nights in St. Petersburg/Russia
Posted on June 3, 2010 by Tobias Scherbaum

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On June 26th we again invite you to take part in this year's bike ride: "Gentoo White Nights in Russia". Gentoo White Nights is a nighttime bike ride along the most beautiful city in the world - St. Petersburg - in the most magical time - the White Nights.

As last year's experience showed, it's possible to ride in the rain, so the event will take place regardless of weather. The event will take place during the night from 26th to 27th June this year. The starting point is the Moskovsky railway station at 10:00 PM. If you'd like to join the Gentoo White Nights, contact Andrey Surganov or Alexey Shetsov.

Andrey Surganov contributed the draft for this announcement.

GLSA 201006-17: www-servers/lighttpd
Posted on June 3, 2010 by Gentoo Security Team

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lighttpd: Denial of Service
A processing error in lighttpd might result in a Denial of Service condition.
See GLSA 201006-17 for more information.

GLSA 201006-16: media-libs/gd
Posted on June 3, 2010 by Gentoo Security Team

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GD: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
The GD library is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability.
See GLSA 201006-16 for more information.

GLSA 201006-15: app-editors/xemacs
Posted on June 3, 2010 by Gentoo Security Team

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XEmacs: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
Multiple integer overflow errors in XEmacs might allow remote, user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code.
See GLSA 201006-15 for more information.

GLSA 201006-14: dev-libs/newt
Posted on June 2, 2010 by Gentoo Security Team

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Newt: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code
A heap-based buffer overflow in the Newt library might allow remote, user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code.
See GLSA 201006-14 for more information.

GLSA 201006-13: dev-php/smarty
Posted on June 2, 2010 by Gentoo Security Team

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Smarty: Multiple vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities in the Smarty template engine might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code.
See GLSA 201006-13 for more information.

Help Wanted: The Gentoo Foundation
Posted on May 17, 2010 by David Abbott

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Bookkeeper, Accountant, or CPA

And that means? We are looking for help from the Gentoo Community to help us in Accounting/Finance. We are in the process towards the goal of tax-exempt status with the United States Internal Revenue Service as a non-profit corporation. If this is your background, we could really use your help.

Please contact trustees@gentoo.org or visit Gentoo Foundation for details.

Interview with Andrzej Wasylkowski from the checkmycode project.
Posted on April 1, 2010 by David Abbott

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Today we have an interview with Andrzej Wasylkowski, and since August 2005 he has been a PhD student at the Software Engineering Chair at Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany. His research field is software engineering, with strong focus on program analysis techniques and their application to automatic defect detection.

One of the projects he is involved in is checkmycode, which is a service that allows you to compare your code with the "wisdom of the crowds", over 200 million lines of C code from the Gentoo Linux distribution.

Please continue on and read the complete Andrzej Wasylkowski interview and learn all about the project and its use of Gentoo!

Students, get paid to work on Gentoo this summer!
Posted on March 20, 2010 by Donnie Berkholz

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Gentoo has been accepted for its 5th consecutive year in the Google Summer of Code! GSoC pays college students $5000 to work full-time on an open-source project for a summer. Check out our GSoC 2010 homepage if you are interested in this year's GSoC for Gentoo. We particularly encourage applications from students who aren't already involved in Gentoo development—many of our students become Gentoo developers after a successful summer.

Interested students can browse Gentoo's project ideas. Student applications will be accepted starting March 29.

Developers, if you'd like to apply to be a mentor, you can do so on the webapp. Please read the mentoring guide before applying.

Council Meeting Summary
Posted on March 14, 2010 by David Abbott

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What: Gentoo Council Meeting of 8 March 2010.

Voting by email

Ideas seemed to converge on how to vote by email but it was noted that this would constitute a change of GLEP39 which the council can't modify without an all-developers vote. Since there were already other changes planned or suggested to GLEP 39 it was decided that the council would work on a new text and submit it to a vote when ready. Calchan has volunteered to gather all ideas and work on the text.

Do we want a policy for changes in metadata.xml?

Adding such information to metadata.xml was considered a bad idea for two reasons: this information is of no use to the users and would bloat the file for no good reason, and it would be a technical answer to a mostly social problem. It was suggested that reducing territoriality could help. Ideas were proposed like making it official that after sending an email to the maintainers and waiting one week anybody could touch a package.

In the end it wasn't clear what exact problem was to be solved. So scarabeus volunteered to animate the discussions on the mailing list. The goal is to find out what the source of the problem is and what solution(s) we can apply.

For more information, read the summary or the complete IRC log.

Chemnitz Linux Days 2010
Posted on March 9, 2010 by David Abbott

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Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2010 is almost here, and Gentoo will be there!

This years Chemnitzer Linux-Tage on March 13th and 14th is another great chance to:

  • get in touch with Gentoo developers
  • buy Gentoo shirts (be quick, first come first serve)
  • chat, discuss, start with ebuilds and overlays, you name it

The "Chemnitz Linux Days" is a conference that deals with Linux and Open Source Software . It is open for everyone, novices and experts alike. This event is organized by IN Chemnitz, CLUG, Computing Center and Faculty of Computer Science of Chemnitz University of Technology, and many volunteers.

See you there!

Sebastian Pipping contributed to the draft for this announcement.

Gentoo at SCALE 8x
Posted on February 13, 2010 by Joshua Saddler

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SCALE 8x is almost here, and Gentoo will be there!

Southern California's premier open-source software event is just around the corner, running from Friday, February 19 through Sunday, February 21. Several Gentoo developers will be there; it will be our biggest showing since SCALE 5x.

We'll be showing off some nifty devices running Gentoo, and we'll be giving out installation media. Whether you're a developer, user, or simply curious, be sure and stop by booth #33. See you there!




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