After yet another gotcha takes down a critical Linux workstation, is it officially time to consider avoiding btrfs when it matters?

Plus what happened to the Evolve OS project & why they are now called Solus.

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• Four ways Ubiquiti Networks is creatively violating the GPL

• CoreOS Raises $12M for Container Tech, Launches Tectonic

CoreOS today announced a new $12 million round of funding as well as a new product called Tectonic that is based on the Google Kubernetes open-source project for container orchestration.

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The Death of Chris’ #1 Rig

Another btrfs snafu… glad I am sitting this one out

• Stable kernel version 3.19.1+ can cause a deadlock at mount time
  • workaround: boot with older kernel, or run btrfs-zero-log to clear the log (beware of the consequences)
  • fix: scheduled for 3.19.4, or apply 9c4f61f01d269815bb7c37.
  • also affected: 3.14.35+, 3.18.9+

• Versions from 3.15 up to 3.16.1 suffer from a deadlock that was observed during heavy rsync workloads with compression on, it’s recommended to use 3.16.2 and newer

Fedora Server 22 Is Using The XFS File-System By Default

The server edition of Fedora 22 is using the XFS file-system by default rather than EXT4.

Using the XFS file-system as the default within an LVM has been part of the Fedora Server technical spec while with Fedora 22 it’s finally happened. The default layout for Fedora Server 22 installations is using XFS atop LVM while /boot is outside the LVM setup.

XFS: There and back … and there again?

• Software RAID and LVM – ArchWiki

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This is not an April Fools post We will be required to change the name

We will be required to change the name of the Evolve OS project, to avoid unnecessary legal action.

• Evolve OS Changes Names to Solus, an Old Community Favorite – Softpedia

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The Rosetta Mission has landed, Groupon plays nice with Gnome, a catastrophic Windows bug gets patched, the medical tricorder of today, YouTube’s music service, a quick note on open source .Net, our Kickstarter of the week & more!

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Groupon decides to leave ‘Gnome’ trademark alone | PCWorld

Groupon has dropped trademark applications that sought to use the “Gnome” name for a point-of-sale tablet it released in May, clashing with the open-source software group of the same name.

The nonprofit Gnome Foundation, which is behind the Gnome desktop for GNU/Linux and BSD, has held a registered trademark for the name since 2006.

Potentially catastrophic bug bites all versions of Windows. Patch now | Ars Technica

Microsoft has disclosed a potentially catastrophic vulnerability in virtually all versions of Windows. People operating Windows systems, particularly those who run websites, should immediately install a patch Microsoft released Tuesday morning.

The vulnerability resides in the Microsoft secure channel (schannel) security component that implements the secure sockets layer and transport layer security (TLS) protocols, according to a Microsoft advisory. A failure to properly filter specially formed packets makes it possible for attackers to execute attack code of their choosing by sending malicious traffic to a Windows-based server.

While the advisory makes reference to vulnerabilities targeting Windows servers, the vulnerability is rated critical for client and server versions of Windows alike, an indication the remote-code bug may threaten Windows desktops and laptop users as well. Amol Sarwate, director of engineering at Qualys, told Ars the flaw leaves client machines open if users run software that monitors Internet ports and accepts encrypted connections.

“If they install software that listens on port, then that machine would be vulnerable,” he said. An example would be “if they run Windows 7 but install an FTP server on it that accepts connections from outside, or a Web server on a client.”

Tuesday’s disclosure means that every major TLS stack—including Apple SecureTransport, GNUTLS, OpenSSL, NSS, and now Microsoft SChannel—has had a severe vulnerability this year.

This Device Diagnoses Hundreds of Diseases Using a Single Drop of Blood | WIRED

Called the rHEALTH

One small drop of blood is dropped into a small receptacle, where nanostrips and reagents react to the blood’s contents. The whole cocktail then goes through a spiral micro-mixer and is streamed past lasers that use variations in light intensity and scattering to come up with a diagnosis, from flu to a more serious illness such as pneumonia—or even Ebola—within a few minutes. There’s also a vitals patch that users can wear to get continuous health readings—EKG, heart rate, body temperature—delivered to their smartphone or the rHEALTH device itself via a Bluetooth link. An app called CHAS (Comprehensive Health Assessment Unit) can walk the user through the process of self-diagnosis.

The real innovation of rHEALTH, according to Chan, is in getting all the diagnostics technologies packed together into one handheld device. By shrinking its components so much compared to traditional devices, Chan says, patients will need to give 1,500 times less blood than they would for regular tests. Since it was originally developed for NASA, the device has even been tested in simulated lunar and zero gravity. “It’s a symphony of innovations, but we’ve pushed all of them individually to create the device,” Chan says.

YouTube’s music service launches in ‘weeks’ following indie deal

After a long (and frequently contentious) negotiation process, YouTube’s long hinted-at music service appears to be close to launch. Sources for the Financial Times claim that YouTube has finally signed a deal with Merlin, the rights group that represents about 20,000 indie music labels. The move gives the ad-free streaming option a well-stocked catalog ahead of its launch, which is reportedly due within “weeks.” It’s not clear just what broke the deadlock, but a tipster says that the new terms are “substantially more favorable” than what YouTube offered in June

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A major flaw in iOS allows any Enterprise signed Ad-Hoc app to silently replace any non-system iOS app and steal user data, Google now owns a NASA airfield, Gnome battles for its trademark & China hacks the US Postal service.

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Masque Attack: All Your iOS Apps Belong to Us | FireEye Blog

In July 2014, FireEye mobile security researchers have discovered that an iOS app installed using enterprise/ad-hoc provisioning could replace another genuine app installed through the App Store, as long as both apps used the same bundle identifier. This in-house app may display an arbitrary title (like “New Flappy Bird”) that lures the user to install it, but the app can replace another genuine app after installation. All apps can be replaced except iOS preinstalled apps, such as Mobile Safari. This vulnerability exists because iOS doesn’t enforce matching certificates for apps with the same bundle identifier. We verified this vulnerability on iOS 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 8.0, 8.1 and 8.1.1 beta, for both jailbroken and non-jailbroken devices. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability both through wireless networks and USB. We named this attack “Masque Attack”.

China suspected of breaching U.S. Postal Service computer networks

Chinese government hackers are suspected of breaching the computer networks of the United States Postal Service, compromising the data of more than 800,000 employees — including the postmaster general’s.

The intrusion was discovered in mid-September, said officials, who declined to comment on who was thought to be responsible. The FBI is leading the investigation into the hack.

The news, announced by U.S. Postal Service, came as President Obama arrived Monday in Beijing for high-level talks with his counterpart, President Xi Jinping, as well as for an economic summit.

Mozilla will start hosting Tor relays as part of Polaris privacy push

Mozilla will give the Tor Project a capacity boost as part of the Firefox maker’s new strategic privacy initiative, Polaris, which it unveiled on Monday as part of its tenth anniversary celebrations.

The Polaris initiative will see Mozilla work alongside partners such as the Tor Project and the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) to promote online privacy, largely through the inclusion of new features in Firefox. In a Monday blog post, Mozilla said it wants to “accelerate pragmatic and user-focused advances in privacy technology for the web,” which appears to denote a focus on user-friendliness.

Also on Monday, Mozilla added the privacy-focused DuckDuckGo search engine as a pre-installed option for Firefox users across Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. There’s also a new Firefox feature called Forget, which gives users a simple way to clear out all tracking information covering the last five minutes, two hours or 24 hours – as opposed to going through a relatively technically-phrased list asking whether users want to clear cookies, history and so on.

Google now runs an airfield after signing a 60-year NASA lease

It’s official: following months of negotiations, Google now has an airfield to call its own. The company’s Planetary Ventures wing has signed a lease with NASA that lets it manage Moffett Federal Airfield, including three hangars, two runways and even a golf course. The 60-year (!) deal will have the internet giant shell out $6.3 million per year in upkeep, and a total of $1.16 billion in rent.

Open-Source Vs Groupon: GNOME Battle To Protect Their Trademark – OMG! Ubuntu!

Groupon, famed for its ‘deal-of-the-day’ website, recently unveiled a “tablet-based platform” called ‘GNOME’, and has filed requisite trademark filings — 10 so far — seeking ownership of the name.

Naturally, this has the GNOME Foundation ‘concerned’. GNOME is a registered trademark of the foundation, and has been since 2006. This mark was issued under a number of sections, including ‘operating system’ — which the Chicago-based Groupon is also claiming against.

Could it just be that they’ve never heard of GNOME before?

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