● 01.24.14

●● Ubuntu Links: Security, OpenJDK, Mobile, Desktop, and CLA

Posted in Ubuntu at 10:33 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Security

Ubuntu Linux most secure end-user OS, according to researchersLinux: The clear choice for securityAccording to the UK’s Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG), Linux is the clear choice when it comes to security. UK’s security branch says Ubuntu most secure end-user OS

OpenJDK

Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) Might Drop OpenJDK 7 (Java Support)The Ubuntu Developers Are Discussing On Whether To Drop OpenJDK 7 And Tomcat7 From Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty TahrPotential Server Seed impact for 14.04: removal of OpenJDK/Tomcat7 from Ubuntu mainThe first round of seed review changes have now been applied to the server seeds; quite a few bits have dropped out of main and the size of the server ISO has reduced!

Mobile

Canonical Has Started To Promote New Ubuntu Touch Images, After The Regressions Were FixedMeizu Russia confirms “Ubuntu rumors”Yup, just as we’ve told you before, Ubuntu is coming to a Meizu smartphone near you. We still don’t have the official announcement, but details keep coming.,,Ubuntu will beat Microsoft in the race to Unified OSCanonical has been developing an unified OS in form of Ubuntu that can run across different devices without the need of different versions for different platforms i.e a single Ubuntu iso downloaded from Ubuntu.com can be used on the desktops, mobiles, tablets and TV’s.

Desktop

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to Implement the Bleeding Edge GRUB 2.02 Beta 2 Boot Loader Ubuntu distributions didn’t always come with the latest GRUB, but Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) might implement the most recent version, GRUB 2.02 Beta 2.Steam OS has that killer app that Ubuntu doesn’tThe first batch of Steam OS powered machines were announced at CES 2014. These machines will serve two purposes – they will redefine the gaming industry by bringing new players, better hardware to break the trinity of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo which locks everyone else out of the game console market.

CLA

Linus Torvalds Says All Contributor License Agreements Are BrokenA controversy regarding Canonical’s CLA has been going on for a couple of days, and now even Linus Torvalds has entered the discussion, although in a more peaceful manner.CLA stands for Contributor License Agreement and it basically allows the distributor of your software (Canonical, Apache, and almost all the big distributors out there) to defend the application in case it needs defending, in a copyright issue for example.Linus Torvalds: Any CLA is fundamentally brokenCanonical is often criticized for its CLAs – Contributor License Agreements – by the larger Open Source community. Ironically Canonical is not the only company which requires CLAs, even communities like FSF or ASF require CLAs. Since Canonical is not a community, but a for-profit company, what makes their CLAs so bad considering that companies like Google don’t get the same criticism for their CLAs? What makes Canonical’s CLA so bad whereas when everyone else is also doing the same thing?

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