today's leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 12, 2024

• Fedora Family / IBM

  • Peter 'CzP' Czanik ☛ Syslog-ng needs some karma on Fedora

    Version 4.8.1 of syslog-ng was released last week. It is a bugfix release, and it contains fixes for problems also reported by members of the Fedora community. The Fedora 41 release is near, so package updates now need some additional testing, and “karma” in Bodhi. You can find information on how to install syslog-ng 4.8.1 from a testing repo on Fedora 41 beta at https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-4e812b8a23. This is also the place where you can provide feedback and karma. Thanks for your help!

  • Chris ☛ Enhanced Session with Fedora 40 in Hyper-V

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • mintCast Podcast ☛ mintCast 447.5 – Interview with Ken McConnell

    In our Innards section: we visit with author Ken McConnell

• SaaS/Back End/Databases

  • Jamie Zawinski ☛ "Let's pick the right product for you".

    But every time I see what their logged-out front page looks like -- which is always, since they are pathologically incapable of keeping me logged in -- I think, "I'm gonna have to stop using this pretty soon, aren't I?"

  • ACM ☛ 50 Years of Queries

    Data has been stored in digital form for a long time. Herman Hollerith invented punched cards to process the 1890 U.S. census. Punched cards had a successful 65-year product life until they were largely replaced by magnetic tapes in the 1950s. In the mid-20th century, data was typically stored on a magnetic tape and dedicated to a specific application. A tape might, for example, be used by an inventory-control application. Periodically, maybe once a week, the inventory-control job would read the tape sequentially, applying updates as it went along and producing a new, updated inventory tape. (As a college student in 1964, I had a summer job as a computer operator, running jobs like this.)

• Licensing / Legal

  • Silicon Angle ☛ Sonatype report: Open-source software reaches 6.6T requests and security risks escalate

    The details come from Sonatype’s 10th Annual State of the Software Supply Chain report, based on data from more than 7 million open-source projects, which found that open-source consumption has exploded, with estimates placing this year’s downloads at over 6.6 trillion. Open-source components were found to now make up to 90% of modern software applications, ushering in unprecedented innovation and complex challenges for the software supply chain.

  • Scoop News Group ☛ Malicious packages in open-source repositories are surging [Ed: Malware is everywhere, so vetting sources is still important; it is not an "open source" issue]

    The open-source ecosystem is being overrun by malicious packages, a new report from Sonatype finds.