Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 19 February 2007A warning about upcoming changes to ALSA In the past days there were a few changes to two ALSA packages, media-sound/alsa-firmware-1.0.14_rc2-r1 and media-sound/alsa-tools-1.0.14_rc1-r1. These two ebuilds now make use of the ALSA_CARDS variable to decide which firmwares to install and which tools to build. The ALSA_CARDS was already being used by media-sound/alsa-driver package, so users of that package should be already done, as they most likely have that already set; for users using the in-kernel drivers, they should now properly set that variable, also. Please see /usr/portage/profiles/desc/alsa_cards.desc for a list of available ALSA_CARDS values.
Why I don't care if you are dropping recommend of Gentoo In a long forum post, chrisfeet tells the story of how Gentoo became his favorite. Written as a rebuttal of sorts to the negative comments in Why I'm dropping recommendation of Gentoo he states that the elegance and power of a Gentoo system is what draws him to it, even after experiencing the user-friendliness of Ubuntu. Cuba's Cabinet also has urged a shift from proprietary software. The customs service has gone to Linux and the ministries of culture, higher education and communications are planning to do so, Rodriguez said. Students in his own department are cooking up a version of Linux called Nova, based on the Gentoo distribution of the operating system. The ministry of higher education is developing its own distribution. The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo project:
Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple flaws exist in the Samba suite of programs, the most serious of which could result in the execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement ProFTPD: Local privilege escalation A flaw in ProFTPD may allow a local attacker to obtain root privileges. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement Snort contains a vulnerability in the rule matching algorithm that could result in a Denial of Service. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement RAR and UnRAR contain a buffer overflow allowing the execution of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement A flaw in Fail2ban may allow remote attackers to deny access to arbitrary hosts. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement ISC BIND contains two vulnerabilities allowing a Denial of Service under certain conditions. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement Sun JDK/JRE: Execution of arbitrary code Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) contain a memory corruption flaw that allows the applets to gain elevated privileges potentially leading to the execute of arbitrary code. For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement AMD64 x86 emulation Sun's J2SE Development Kit: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities have been identified in Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) and Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE). For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement This section lists packages that have either been moved or added to the tree and packages that have had their "last rites" announcement given to be removed in the future. The package removals come from many locations, including the Treecleaners and various developers. Most packages which are listed under the Last Rites section are in need of some love and care and can remain in the tree if proper maintainership is established.
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org) to record and track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the development team. Between 11 February 2007 and 18 February 2007, activity on the site has resulted in:
Of the 10450 currently open bugs: 17 are labeled 'blocker', 115 are labeled 'critical', and 436 are labeled 'major'. The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period are:
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during this period are:
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