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GNU/Linux powers state-of-the-art hearing aid research
64 Studio Ltd. has created a Linux distribution for HörTech gGmbH to aid in research on hearing impairment and augmentation technology. "64 Studio was commissioned by HörTech to create a GNU/Linux real-time audio distribution, code-named Mahalia, optimized for the Lenovo Thinkpad X200 notebook. Giso Grimm of the Carl von Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg explained: "We prefer to use ready-to-use Linux audio distributions over patching the kernel ourselves, since our expertise is in signal processing, not kernel development. When we were faced with the fact that our then favourite audio distribution failed to deliver stable real-time kernels for several releases, we asked 64 Studio to tailor us a customized distribution with a working real-time kernel that matched our specific needs and ran stable on the selected hardware.""
Ubuntu 10.10 Beta (Maverick Meerkat) Released
Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) beta is available for testing. The Ubuntu 10.10 family of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Mythbuntu, have also reached beta status. Maverick Meerkat is scheduled for a final release on October 10, 2010.
Security advisories for Friday
Debian has updated barnowl (denial of service).
Fedora has updated rekonq (F13, F12: cross-site scripting), sssd (F13, F12: authentication bypass), wireshark (F13, F12: multiple vulnerabilities), and F12: kernel (privilege escalation).
Gentoo has updated wxgtk (arbitrary code execution).
Mandriva has updated wget (code execution).
Pardus has updated openssl (denial of service) and flashplugin (multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated kernel (privilege escalation).
SUSE has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities).
Morgan: Finding more women to speak at Ohio LinuxFest: success!
On her blog, Mackenzie Morgan reports on efforts to increase the number of women speakers at Ohio LinuxFest. Due to the outreach, the number of women speakers went from five of 31 last year to 14 of 38 this year. "Recognising the various concerns women speakers can face, we tried to specifically address potential issues in the email sent to women-focused mailing lists. Some of these known issues include lack of confidence in new speakers, not being clear what the intended audience is, or the "imposter syndrome," where someone doesn't recognize that they are qualified to speak on a topic. The woman to woman dialog made the difference.".
Embedded Linux Conference videos available
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? It will take place in Cambridge (UK), on October 27-28, and will be colocated with the GStreamer conference (October 26). See http://www.embeddedlinuxconference.com/elc_europe10/ and http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conference/ for details."

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