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Michael Opdenacker has announced the availability of videos from this year's Embedded Linux Conference, which was held in San Francisco in April. The slides and Theora video are available for most, if not all, of the talks. Opdenacker and the Free Electrons team do the community a great service by doing the work to record and transcode the videos. "If you are interested in such talks, what about joining the European
edition of the conference?

Mandriva has updated thunderbird
(multiple vulnerabilities).

Ubuntu has updated wget (arbitrary
code execution).

Tiago Vignatti has put together a report on the development X.org 1.9. In the tradition of the kernel statistics reported on LWN, and the more recent GNOME census, he ranks developers and employers based on the number of changes made to various pieces of the X.org tree during the development of 1.9 (April 2 to August 20).

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 2, 2010 is available.

On his blog, Harald Welte writes about work he is doing as part of the gpl-violations.org project. "Right now I'm facing what I'd consider the most outrageous case that I've been involved so far: A manufacturer of Linux-based embedded devices (no, I will not name the company) really has the guts to go in front of court and sue another company for modifying the firmware on those devices.

Issue 21 of the GNOME Journal is
out; topics covered include simple real-time games, Grilo, and an interview
with Bradley Kuhn.

CentOS has updated C5: httpd
(multiple vulnerabilities) and C5: kernel
(privilege escalation).

Debian has updated wireshark
(arbitrary code execution).

Fedora has updated socat (F13, F12:
arbitrary code execution).

Mandriva has updated libgdiplus
(arbitrary code execution),

On her blog, Máirín Duffy describes four archetypes of Fedora users (Caroline Casual-User, Pamela Packager, Connie Community, and Nancy Ninja) and how they relate to updates of the distribution. Fedora has been discussing its update policy for a bit and Duffy uses the user stories to present her thoughts on how to proceed. "Pamela wants updates to be constant throughout a release, no holds barred — she wants the latest Gimp and she wants it yesterday.

Linus Torvalds rarely makes appearances at conferences, and it's even
less common for him to get up in front of the crowd and speak. He made an
exception for LinuxCon Brazil, though, where he and Andrew Morton appeared
in a question and answer session led by Linux Foundation director Jim
Zemlin. The resulting conversation covered many aspects of kernel
development, its processes, and its history. Click below (subscribers
only) for the full report from São Paulo.

The Debian Project has put up a brief notice on the
passing of longtime contributor Frans Pop. "Frans was involved in
Debian as a maintainer of several packages, a supporter of the S/390 port,
and one of the most involved members of the Debian Installer team. He was a
Debian Listmaster, editor and release manager of the Installation Guide and
the release notes, as well as a Dutch translator."