Read the GPL again. They have to make the source code available to those who they distributed the software to, which in this case is the manufacturers. It is the manufacturers responsibility to distribute the source code for the open source projects that require it to people who purchase the software.
So far Motorola has not put the xoom kernel and packages on their opensource site, but it'll happen eventually. There is usually a little delay.
This news about Google is simply saying they will not release the entire Android source on the AOSP, which is not required (they don't even have to release the GPL bits to the AOSP). I do think this may negatively impact future contributions.
In that sense they are essentially releasing the old version as freeware. I don't think they're doing it to interest developers (although a dev may reuse code from it), but for marketing.
It is not owned by Microsoft, 169.254/16 has long been designated as the "link-local" special use block by IANA (see RFC 3330 and RFC 3927, the draft of which was created by an Apple employee in 2000), thus assigned to no entity.
It's not even a "right" radio, you can pick up a radio at Radio Shack for less than $100 that can listen to aircraft. You don't always even need a radio, sites like LiveATC have streaming audio.
If you want to go farther you can get something like the AirNav Radarbox, and watch the aircraft flying around based on their transponder, unless it's off.
The fact that anyone can listen to this is well known to the DoD, it's not some secret.
They're not combined, it is an optional account feature, and really only useful on smartphones. The VM to Text is still useful for anybody who doesn't opt-in, or doesn't have a smartphone.
Vulnerability was in webkit, not Safari specifically. Chrome may have been vulnerable to it as well.
There was a hacker with a vulnerability for Chrome, but he did not think he could use it in Pwn2Own and reported it to Google. Unfortunately for him he could have, but he'll have to live with the $1337 they gave him.
No, this is nothing like Zune's "Pay monthly or lose it all" subscription model.
Currently if you buy a song and it is deleted, the only* way to get it back is to purchase the song again. This is not just on iTunes, Amazon works the same way.
Apple is trying to allow their customers to redownload songs for free, just like they already can for Apps.
There is nothing forcing you to even use iTunes to play the media once you download it from the store.
*For special circumstances they would allow a redownload, it took speaking to customer service.
You're forgetting that out of those thousands of Android apps, most of them are built for Dalvik, not "Linux." There is a project porting Dalvik to FreeBSD, will it still be Linux after that? There are far more Debian packages _for Linux_ than there are for Android, and there are no Debian packages for Dalvik that I know of.
The reason so many people are making custom Debian distros is because Debian is an extremely stable base with a pretty nice package manager, and they want to customize it. That's it. I would not say it is "falling behind" at all, the sheer number of distributions based on it seems to rule that out.
Android is primarily used in cell phones of which there are millions. That is the only reason for its market share. It's not kicking anything's butt on the PC.
Apparently Red Hat is not making this easy, see the release announcement for 2.6.32.30. Not sure if it's related, but it appears it might be.
Specifically: "Many thanks again to Maximilian Attems who dug around in a lot of different distro kernels and forwarded to me the original git commit ids that should be applied to this tree. Red Hat didn't make this very easy due to their "one giant patch" format, and his skill is helping everyone out here. It's much appreciated."
The advisory says it's a Denial of Service, where's the privilege escalation?
Samba is not turned on by default. Even turning on File Sharing does not turn on Samba, you actually have to go into a separate options window to enable it. The DoS is possible, but not out of the box, and it's also apparently unpatched in quite a few Linux distros (Fedora being largest).
The lack of running services out of the box has always been one of the "security" features of OS X against traditional Windows-type flaws. The main service running out of the box that I can think of is bonjour/mDNS, which is running under a separate non-privileged account.
Windows is just as susceptible to this kind of attack, except most users are running anti-virus software.
The few trojans and malware which have been mildly successful on OS X were blocked at the OS level by Apple. Obviously they aren't using some huge list of signatures but at this point it's not needed, and until the list is more than a few entries there's not much point to install a full fledged anti-virus to spend its time searching for Windows viruses.
OS X separations administration from normal user accounts (though users are quick to give away that password), it includes an easy to configure firewall which can even be more highly configured through third party tools, and it blocks the few pieces of malware that have been released for it. It does fail at not falling prey to zero day vulnerabilities (Pwn2Own). Not really sure how any of this points to a lack of even basic protections.
It's pretty obvious the post was referring to Linux distributions as "Linux" as is common with normal people ("Linux in it's 1000 versions" should be enough to show that). People refer to "Ubuntu" or "Red Hat" in regular conversation and call them "Linux", generally they are not talking about Linux® 2.6.37.2 unless discussing the kernel specifically.
Android is great, but the kernel is not what makes it great to end users and the userland is anything but typical "Linux" nor is it tied to Linux the kernel.
Boot into single user mode and mount the drive manually, it'll come up, maybe after a little complaining. Your issue is expecting their pretty, integrated GUI to run happily when dealing with abnormal situations. The UNIX core can handle it fine.
Since we're sharing anecdotes like they matter, my Mother has been using the same iMac DV regularly since 2000, with all the original components (30GB HD) and no OS reinstall since at least 2006 and has never had an issue, although I'm pushing the backup importance more than normal since it's likely to die relatively soon.
Android uses the Linux kernel then the similarities stop unless you root it. Most of the user-facing software is Dalvik which is definitely not part of your standard Linux distribution, and would make moving away from Linux a relatively painless process if they wanted to (there is a project porting it to FreeBSD). It's a great example of Linux as a kernel gaining dominance but not GNU/Linux market share. If MeeGo ever takes off that would be a different story.
I'm kicking myself for buying a new laptop when my 2006 ThinkPad developed hardware issues. After the fact I took it apart, found the problem and got factory-new replacement parts for $20. Now I use it more than anything else, yet again. I failed at not being a consumer, but learned a pretty good lesson.
Apple has a long history with ARM. They had a part in the creation of the ARM6 and the Newton used an ARM processor, and now the iPhone with its custom A4 cpu... they've definitely had their hands all over that.
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Read the GPL again. They have to make the source code available to those who they distributed the software to, which in this case is the manufacturers. It is the manufacturers responsibility to distribute the source code for the open source projects that require it to people who purchase the software.
So far Motorola has not put the xoom kernel and packages on their opensource site, but it'll happen eventually. There is usually a little delay.
This news about Google is simply saying they will not release the entire Android source on the AOSP, which is not required (they don't even have to release the GPL bits to the AOSP). I do think this may negatively impact future contributions.
Except that 3.0 was not meant for phones, and the issue is people (potentially) using it on phones anyway. It is really for the target platform.
In that sense they are essentially releasing the old version as freeware. I don't think they're doing it to interest developers (although a dev may reuse code from it), but for marketing.
After the experiment they are to be used for APRS, it's meant to be up there for a while.
Specifically because they're out of addresses for their Internal network.
It is not owned by Microsoft, 169.254/16 has long been designated as the "link-local" special use block by IANA (see RFC 3330 and RFC 3927, the draft of which was created by an Apple employee in 2000), thus assigned to no entity.
It's not even a "right" radio, you can pick up a radio at Radio Shack for less than $100 that can listen to aircraft. You don't always even need a radio, sites like LiveATC have streaming audio.
If you want to go farther you can get something like the AirNav Radarbox, and watch the aircraft flying around based on their transponder, unless it's off.
The fact that anyone can listen to this is well known to the DoD, it's not some secret.
They're not combined, it is an optional account feature, and really only useful on smartphones. The VM to Text is still useful for anybody who doesn't opt-in, or doesn't have a smartphone.
Preferences > Sharing > File Sharing > Options... "Share files and folders using FTP"
That's not to say it's inherently insecure. The shared folders were obviously set up as world writable by the user.
Vulnerability was in webkit, not Safari specifically. Chrome may have been vulnerable to it as well.
There was a hacker with a vulnerability for Chrome, but he did not think he could use it in Pwn2Own and reported it to Google. Unfortunately for him he could have, but he'll have to live with the $1337 they gave him.
No, this is nothing like Zune's "Pay monthly or lose it all" subscription model.
Currently if you buy a song and it is deleted, the only* way to get it back is to purchase the song again. This is not just on iTunes, Amazon works the same way.
Apple is trying to allow their customers to redownload songs for free, just like they already can for Apps.
There is nothing forcing you to even use iTunes to play the media once you download it from the store.
*For special circumstances they would allow a redownload, it took speaking to customer service.
They aren't on Amazon, either.
Does Arch have secure package management yet?
You're forgetting that out of those thousands of Android apps, most of them are built for Dalvik, not "Linux." There is a project porting Dalvik to FreeBSD, will it still be Linux after that? There are far more Debian packages _for Linux_ than there are for Android, and there are no Debian packages for Dalvik that I know of.
The reason so many people are making custom Debian distros is because Debian is an extremely stable base with a pretty nice package manager, and they want to customize it. That's it. I would not say it is "falling behind" at all, the sheer number of distributions based on it seems to rule that out.
Android is primarily used in cell phones of which there are millions. That is the only reason for its market share. It's not kicking anything's butt on the PC.
Apparently Red Hat is not making this easy, see the release announcement for 2.6.32.30. Not sure if it's related, but it appears it might be.
Specifically:
"Many thanks again to Maximilian Attems who dug around in a lot of different distro kernels and forwarded to me the original git commit ids that should be applied to this tree. Red Hat didn't make this very easy due to their "one giant patch" format, and his skill is helping everyone out here. It's much appreciated."
OS X 10.7 supports TRIM.
The advisory says it's a Denial of Service, where's the privilege escalation?
Samba is not turned on by default. Even turning on File Sharing does not turn on Samba, you actually have to go into a separate options window to enable it. The DoS is possible, but not out of the box, and it's also apparently unpatched in quite a few Linux distros (Fedora being largest).
The lack of running services out of the box has always been one of the "security" features of OS X against traditional Windows-type flaws. The main service running out of the box that I can think of is bonjour/mDNS, which is running under a separate non-privileged account.
Windows is just as susceptible to this kind of attack, except most users are running anti-virus software.
The few trojans and malware which have been mildly successful on OS X were blocked at the OS level by Apple. Obviously they aren't using some huge list of signatures but at this point it's not needed, and until the list is more than a few entries there's not much point to install a full fledged anti-virus to spend its time searching for Windows viruses.
OS X separations administration from normal user accounts (though users are quick to give away that password), it includes an easy to configure firewall which can even be more highly configured through third party tools, and it blocks the few pieces of malware that have been released for it. It does fail at not falling prey to zero day vulnerabilities (Pwn2Own). Not really sure how any of this points to a lack of even basic protections.
There are so few that the OS itself includes the signatures (or blacklist) to prevent that iWork/Photoshop trojan, specifically.
It's pretty obvious the post was referring to Linux distributions as "Linux" as is common with normal people ("Linux in it's 1000 versions" should be enough to show that). People refer to "Ubuntu" or "Red Hat" in regular conversation and call them "Linux", generally they are not talking about Linux® 2.6.37.2 unless discussing the kernel specifically.
Android is great, but the kernel is not what makes it great to end users and the userland is anything but typical "Linux" nor is it tied to Linux the kernel.
Boot into single user mode and mount the drive manually, it'll come up, maybe after a little complaining. Your issue is expecting their pretty, integrated GUI to run happily when dealing with abnormal situations. The UNIX core can handle it fine. Since we're sharing anecdotes like they matter, my Mother has been using the same iMac DV regularly since 2000, with all the original components (30GB HD) and no OS reinstall since at least 2006 and has never had an issue, although I'm pushing the backup importance more than normal since it's likely to die relatively soon.
Android uses the Linux kernel then the similarities stop unless you root it. Most of the user-facing software is Dalvik which is definitely not part of your standard Linux distribution, and would make moving away from Linux a relatively painless process if they wanted to (there is a project porting it to FreeBSD). It's a great example of Linux as a kernel gaining dominance but not GNU/Linux market share. If MeeGo ever takes off that would be a different story.
I'm kicking myself for buying a new laptop when my 2006 ThinkPad developed hardware issues. After the fact I took it apart, found the problem and got factory-new replacement parts for $20. Now I use it more than anything else, yet again. I failed at not being a consumer, but learned a pretty good lesson.
Apple has a long history with ARM. They had a part in the creation of the ARM6 and the Newton used an ARM processor, and now the iPhone with its custom A4 cpu... they've definitely had their hands all over that.