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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 6 December 2004.
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1. Gentoo News
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Gentoo Developer Meeting at 21C3, 27 to 29 December 2004
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The 21st Chaos Communication Congress (21C3)[1] is a three-day conference
on technology, society and utopia. Traditionally held in the German
capital of Berlin between Christmas and New Year's Eve each year, the C3
offers lectures and workshops on information technology, IT security,
Internet, and cryptography, and offers a generally critical and creative
debate on technology and its effects on society.
1. http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/
Last year's 20C3 already had plenty of Gentoo developers and users attend
the conference, leading to the announcement of an official Gentoo
Developer Meeting to be held concurrently at this year's event. The Gentoo
Dev Meeting is scheduled for 28 December (the second day of the
conference) at 18:00 hours, the guestlist and the agenda are to be
announced at the 21C3's public wiki for Gentoo[2]. It will serve many
purposes, ranging from a simple get-together for (mainly European) Gentoo
developers, via exploring the possibilities for closer co-operation,
improved direct communication and more synergies in the network, to
improvements to the Gentoo project as a whole. We will define the state of
the European Gentoo developer network, and how we can improve developer
relations in that network, we will discuss ways to work together and help
each other with our efforts in maintaining and developing the Gentoo
distribution, now and in the future.
2. https://21c3.ccc.de/wiki/index.php/Gentoo
Besides the developer meeting, other Gentoo highlights at the 21c3 are not
to be missed, either, one being the Hardened Gentoo presentation of
Alexander Gabert[3] on 28 December at 15:00, an introduction to the
hardened toolchain, the PaX kernel, strong DAC/MAC control mechanisms and
the project's thorough low-entry oriented user documentation, all-in-all
providing "full scale" protection for a wide range of home to enterprise
users. On the exhibition and activity floor of the conference, the
traditional "hackcenter"[4], a Gentoo table will be set up to meet, greet
and play around with Gentoo Linux.
3. pappy@gentoo.org
4. http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/
Getting to know each other, sharing experience and planning future
activities are important goals of this meeting, but we do count on its
being fun at the same time. Please contact Marc Hildebrand[5] if you like
to attend or wish to add to the agenda.
5. zypher@gentoo.org
New Gentoo Linux 2004.3-r1 release announced
--------------------------------------------
Following quickly on the footsteps of the highly successful 2004.3
release, the Release Engineering project has put out a maintenance release
for some architectures. Supplying a maintenance release was open to all
architectures, but only a few found it necessary to provide one. There are
very few changes in the release media, and this only fixes a few bugs
which kept some people from installing. The affected architectures and
their respective changes are:
* Alpha - New LiveCD with a correct aboot.conf, stages and livecd moved
to /releases
* AMD64 - New LiveCD with corrected Speakup support, pnpbios is turned
off by default, and distfiles for dhcpcd, slocate, usbutils, and pciutils
added to the Universal CD
* HPPA - This CD adds lvm2 support to the LiveCD
* x86 - Additions identical as for AMD64, and the x86 PackageCD was
recompiled due to a missing glib dependency on kdegraphics
You can find the maintenance release media in the same location as the
2004.3 release media on your favorite Gentoo mirror.
UK Gentoo Developer Meeting Preannouncement
-------------------------------------------
The UK-based Gentoo developers are pleased to announce that the Gentoo UK
2005 Conference will be held on Saturday 12th March 2005 at the University
of Salford, with social events the night before and the night after. The
theme for this year's Conference is "Success with Gentoo", and they will
be running both a Speakers Programme and a Demonstration Programme.
They're inviting developers and users alike who wish to take part in the
programme to submit their proposals before 31st December 2004. For more
details, see the Conference website[6]
6. http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/2005/
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2. Future zone
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Gentoo on a 256MB USB stick: Flash Linux
----------------------------------------
Note: Topics for this section may occasionally include projects that are
not officially part of Gentoo, but affect it in one way or the other. This
could be development in the wild that is is bound to end up being a Gentoo
project in the future, or something that's inspired by and based on
Gentoo, but heads off in a different direction all by itself. One of the
latter is the topic for this week's column:
FlashLinux[7] is a customized Linux variant designed to be run directly
off a USB key or similar forms of bootable flash memory. Gareth Bult and
his helpers have based their trimmed-to-fit binary distribution entirely
on Gentoo Linux, with a special focus on Gnome 2.8, and the aim to to
produce something that would encourage Windows users to give Linux a try.
"The applications we included may not be a programmer's dream, but we're
hoping they're what the average user is looking to get from a modern
desktop system," says Gareth. Currently included are Evolution, XChat,
Firefox, and a Ximian build of OpenOffice, along with many more[8].
7. http://www.encryptec.net/flashlinux/
8. http://www.encryptec.net/flashlinux/flash032/index.html
The choice of Gentoo as the base for Flash Linux seemed obvious, even if
generously overlooking the fact that its creator is a Gentoo user who has
been running his web servers on Gentoo Linux for the past twelve months.
"I was looking for something as nippy as possible, and the task was to fit
a quart into a pint pot," he explains - implicitly leaving little to no
alternatives to FlashLinux being based on Gentoo. Provided a (x86 or
AMD64) computer's BIOS allows for booting off a USB stick in the first
place, the FlashLinux key fires up a 2.6.7-gentoo-r14 kernel, autoconfig
comes from the Knoppix tools and provides hardware detection, and
mkxf86config does the X setup. There's a GRUB based choice of either LAN
or dialup configurations, at two different screen resolutions each.
Figure 2.1: Windows-swatting penguin splashscreen: FlashLinux USB key
booting
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20041206-fl.jpg
"Everybody knows the LAN setup works perfectly in the Gentoo LiveCDs, but
we were surprised how well dialup is integrated, too," says Gareth Bult.
While comments he received from early adopters show mostly awe that this
fits onto a 256MB key - that even keeps 50MB of free space - the stick
itself is where the developers identify a decisive factor. According to
them, the choice of media is crucial for a usable configuration: "USB 1.0
keys only transfer data at 1Mbps and are unusable when it comes to
FlashLinux. But even USB 2.0 keys do not really transfer data at 480Mbps,
typical rates vary between 5 and 10Mbps." But even the more expensive
recommendations in USB memory sticks are typically still within a 30 USD
price range.
The FlashLinux creator has placed his work under the GPL, and hopes for
outside help from people interested in different aspects, like making the
USB sticks ADSL-ready, solving bootsplash issues with newer kernels, and
other contributions or ideas that are most welcome. The contact address is
hostmaster@encryptec.net.
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3. Gentoo security
==================
Open DC Hub: Remote code execution
----------------------------------
Open DC Hub contains a buffer overflow that can be exploited to allow
remote code execution.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[9]
9. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200411-37.xml
Sun and Blackdown Java: Applet privilege escalation
---------------------------------------------------
The Java plug-in security in Sun and Blackdown Java environments can be
bypassed to access arbitrary packages, allowing untrusted Java applets to
perform unrestricted actions on the host system.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[10]
10. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200411-38.xml
rssh, scponly: Unrestricted command execution
---------------------------------------------
rssh and scponly do not filter command-line options that can be exploited
to execute any command, thereby allowing a remote user to completely
bypass the restricted shell.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[11]
11. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-01.xml
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4. Heard in the community
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gentoo-user
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udev or devfs
Systems running a 2.6 kernel now have the option of installing udev. One
user notices some of the online Gentoo documentation still advises devfs
and asks for suggestions on configuring udev.
* new 2004.3 system - to devfs or not to devfs, that is the question[12]
12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/110178
To opt or not to opt. That is the question!
A discussion regarding the location of the gentoo-rsync-mirror ebuild's
install popped up this week. Why was it in /opt? Shouldn't it be in /usr?
A series of (opinioned) answers came in, including some brief history of
where /opt came from in the first place.
* Local portage repository[13]
13. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/110104
Gentoo... Limiting?
One of the Gentoo provisions is that users have full control over their
system. Is this true? One lister posed this question on the gentoo-user
mailing list this week. It of course spawned a great discussion. The short
of it is that Gentoo is as configurable as you want it to be, as long as
you learn the tools in Portage fully.
* Gentoo limitations[14]
14. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/110040
libperl rebuilder
After upgrading Perl packages one user asks how to update all the Perl
modules.
* Upgrading Perl Modules when Upgrading Perl[15]
15. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/109990
Best Digital Camera for Linux?
Nothing can be more frustrating than buying a shiny new computer toy, just
to find out that it does not work with your favorite Linux distribution.
With Christmas right around the corner; the gifts for geeks shopping
season is ramping up into full gear. This thread has some tips for
purchasing a digital camera that will work seamlessly with Gentoo--or any
Linux for that matter!
* Suggestions for a Digital Camera under Linux[16]
16. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/109549
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5. Gentoo International
=======================
Italy: GentooDay report
-----------------------
"Macelli Comunali", the municipal slaughterhouse, sounds a bit strange for
a meeting in the framework of the Italian LinuxDay, but the Gechi's
contact in Prato, a nice little town near Florence, assured penguins of
the Gentoo variety wouldn't run any danger: It's an old palace now, used
as meeting spot and conference hall for many activities of non-profit
organizations.
The place was cold, but the Gechi effectively heated it with their
computers. Half an hour into the event, the distfiles and rsync mirror for
people was set up, and the LAN was fully working for present Gentoo users
to do a few happy emerges. Being curious about each other characterized
much of the atmosphere in the morning, since it was the first meeting ever
for many of the Gechis. While others continued to trickle in, Giulio
Salani (zuglio)[17] explained about his Vidalinux tests, and Matteo
Pescarin (peach)[18] showed his wonderful posters.
17. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=27023
18. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=15873
In the afternoon Giacomo Benvenuti (benve)[19] did a ceremonial first
download from the new experimental Italian Gentoo mirror in Bologna[20],
and some people created a distcc LAN between their laptops.
19. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=16241
20. http://ftp.students.cs.unibo.it/gentoo/
Then it was time for the presentations, and the first was about Andrea
Perotti's (deadhead)[21] "Success stories of Gentoo in commercial
companies". Unfortunately, Andrea had to fight the projector for an hour,
and could only begin after that, leaving no time for Giovanni Ferri's
(FonderiaDigitale)[22]'s talk about the "Creation of a blackbox for
securing your network environment" that was also planned for the afternoon
slot. Giovanni's extraordinary presentation was finally held later that
night, but ordinary visitors had all left by then, he only spoke to a
nucleus of Gentoo activists, all well-fed with an intriguing local
delicacy known as an F2 sandwich.
21. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=36380
22. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=15873
Figure 5.1: Gechi activists at the former abattoir of Prato
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20041206-gday.jpg
Note: Left to right: Cazzantoio, akiross, oRDeX, lavish, randomaze,
nemesix2001, .:deadhead:., and sitting in front holding the magic penguin
that never falls from the table: genGNUbbo
Austria: New AGLUG website
--------------------------
The former Vienna Gentoo Linux Users Group has grown steadily over the
year, and now broadened its focus to encompass an all-Austrian support
group. A new website[23] has been set up that carries many new services,
including a brand new Austrian Gentoo user forum, and an RSS feed for
local news. Stammtisch-type regular meetings are being organized every
month, with the next one to take place on 16 December. Check the event
calendar[24] for details.
23. http://www.aglug.net
24. http://www.aglug.net/index.php?option=com_events&Itemid=40
Germany: Nürnberg meeting report
---------------------------------
Karl Hansl reports from the first meeting in Nürnberg last week: "Local
Gentoo users met and discussed typical Linux topics, such as which
motorcycle brand was faster, Kawasaki or Honda, and had some off-topic
chats about programming, too. Current experience tells us that GUGN
participants come from all ranges of society, self-employed, students, IT
interns, and professional sysadmins. We'll definitely meet again, on 5
January 2005, and hope that others can join us then."
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6. Gentoo in the press
======================
Linux Devices (3 December 2004)
-------------------------------
Linux Devices extensively covers the Gentoo Embedded project this week, in
an article about the "New kid on the embedded Linux block"[25]. The author
links to the Gentoo Embedded web page[26], has friendly words for all
developers involved, and even extends an official welcome to Gentoo Linux
in the name of the Embedded community!
25. http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3119470185.html
26. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/index.xml
ZDNet UK update (3 December 2004)
---------------------------------
Based on additional information by Gentoo release engineering lead Chris
Gianelloni[27], the ZDNet editors have updated the article on upcoming
releases of Gentoo Linux[28] initially published last week. Details of
experimental features planned, like the installer project and the option
of running Gentoo Linux completely off the LiveCD, have been sorted out
and are most accurately reflected in the current version.
27. wolf31o2@gentoo.org
28. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39175014,00.htm
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7. Bugzilla
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Summary
-------
* Statistics
* Closed bug ranking
* New bug rankings
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[29]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 28 November 2004 and 05 December 2004, activity
on the site has resulted in:
29. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 717 new bugs during this period
* 458 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 30 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 7619 currently open bugs: 130 are labeled 'blocker', 239 are
labeled 'critical', and 560 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[30], with 35 closed bugs[31]
* Gentoo KDE team[32], with 25 closed bugs[33]
* Gentoo Games[34], with 19 closed bugs[35]
* AMD64 Porting Team[36], with 18 closed bugs[37]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[38], with 17 closed bugs[39]
* Daniel Black[40], with 17 closed bugs[41]
* Java team[42], with 16 closed bugs[43]
* Jeremy Huddleston[44], with 13 closed bugs[45]
30. base-system@gentoo.org
31.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
32. kde@gentoo.org
33.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
34. games@gentoo.org
35.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
36. amd64@gentoo.org
37.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
38. gnome@gentoo.org
39.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
40. dragonheart@gentoo.org
41.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=dragonheart@gentoo.org
42. java@gentoo.org
43.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=java@gentoo.org
44. eradicator@gentoo.org
45.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=eradicator@gentoo.org
New bug rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Java team[46], with 19 new bugs[47]
* AMD64 Porting Team[48], with 15 new bugs[49]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[50], with 13 new bugs[51]
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[52], with 13 new bugs[53]
* Gentoo X-windows packagers[54], with 10 new bugs[55]
* SpanKY[56], with 10 new bugs[57]
* media-video herd[58], with 10 new bugs[59]
* Portage team[60], with 10 new bugs[61]
46. java@gentoo.org
47.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=java@gentoo.org
48. amd64@gentoo.org
49.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
50. gnome@gentoo.org
51.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
52. base-system@gentoo.org
53.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
54. x11@gentoo.org
55.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=x11@gentoo.org
56. vapier@gentoo.org
57.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=vapier@gentoo.org
58. media-video@gentoo.org
59.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
60. dev-portage@gentoo.org
61.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=dev-portage@gentoo.org
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8. Tips and Tricks
==================
Revival of the Compose Key a.k.a. Multi_Key
-------------------------------------------
Many users are on a keyboard layout which does not allow to type other
characters than those printed on the keys. There are some workarounds with
so-called "deadkeys" so that you can type characters with accents, but
that does not enable you to type all characters in your locale.
On many Unix-machines you can find a "Compose Key" on the attached
keyboard. With that special key you can "compose" the desired character.
For instance, typing the sequence <compose> <"> <a> will result in the
Umlaut ä. Or take <compose> </> <o> for a danish ø. With X it is no
problem to declare any key as the Compose Key, or "Multi_Key" as it is
called in the internal routines. Just remember that a keyboard sends only
keycodes, and that it is unimportant which keycode represents a given
character or special key.
To enable the Compose Key you have to alter your /etc/X11/xorg.conf. There
are other ways, like using xmodmap, but the global configuration with the
xorg.conf ensures that the Compose Key will be available to all users. I
recommend the right "Windows Key" (just one of the two on your keyboard
enabled should be enough):
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 8.1: |
|Enable the Compose Key in the |
xorg.conf------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
| |
|# Your section in xorg.conf about the keyboard looks similar to this: |
|Section "InputDevice" |
| Identifier "Keyboard0" |
| Driver "kbd" |
| Option "XkbModel" "pc104" |
| Option "XkbLayout" "us" |
| Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin" |
|EndSection |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
After you restart X, you should be able to type the characters in the
example above. A complete list of available Compose Key characters with
their description can be found in the file
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/<your_character_enocding>/Compose.
===========================
9. Moves, adds, and changes
===========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* None this week
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
* Joe McCann (joem) - Gnome development
* Michael Stewart (vericgar) - Apache
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux
project:
* None this week
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64. http://www.gentoo.org/news/da/gwn/gwn.xml
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1. Gentoo News
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Gentoo Developer Meeting at 21C3, 27 to 29 December 2004
--------------------------------------------------------
The 21st Chaos Communication Congress (21C3)[1] is a three-day conference
on technology, society and utopia. Traditionally held in the German
capital of Berlin between Christmas and New Year's Eve each year, the C3
offers lectures and workshops on information technology, IT security,
Internet, and cryptography, and offers a generally critical and creative
debate on technology and its effects on society.
1. http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/
Last year's 20C3 already had plenty of Gentoo developers and users attend
the conference, leading to the announcement of an official Gentoo
Developer Meeting to be held concurrently at this year's event. The Gentoo
Dev Meeting is scheduled for 28 December (the second day of the
conference) at 18:00 hours, the guestlist and the agenda are to be
announced at the 21C3's public wiki for Gentoo[2]. It will serve many
purposes, ranging from a simple get-together for (mainly European) Gentoo
developers, via exploring the possibilities for closer co-operation,
improved direct communication and more synergies in the network, to
improvements to the Gentoo project as a whole. We will define the state of
the European Gentoo developer network, and how we can improve developer
relations in that network, we will discuss ways to work together and help
each other with our efforts in maintaining and developing the Gentoo
distribution, now and in the future.
2. https://21c3.ccc.de/wiki/index.php/Gentoo
Besides the developer meeting, other Gentoo highlights at the 21c3 are not
to be missed, either, one being the Hardened Gentoo presentation of
Alexander Gabert[3] on 28 December at 15:00, an introduction to the
hardened toolchain, the PaX kernel, strong DAC/MAC control mechanisms and
the project's thorough low-entry oriented user documentation, all-in-all
providing "full scale" protection for a wide range of home to enterprise
users. On the exhibition and activity floor of the conference, the
traditional "hackcenter"[4], a Gentoo table will be set up to meet, greet
and play around with Gentoo Linux.
3. pappy@gentoo.org
4. http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/
Getting to know each other, sharing experience and planning future
activities are important goals of this meeting, but we do count on its
being fun at the same time. Please contact Marc Hildebrand[5] if you like
to attend or wish to add to the agenda.
5. zypher@gentoo.org
New Gentoo Linux 2004.3-r1 release announced
--------------------------------------------
Following quickly on the footsteps of the highly successful 2004.3
release, the Release Engineering project has put out a maintenance release
for some architectures. Supplying a maintenance release was open to all
architectures, but only a few found it necessary to provide one. There are
very few changes in the release media, and this only fixes a few bugs
which kept some people from installing. The affected architectures and
their respective changes are:
* Alpha - New LiveCD with a correct aboot.conf, stages and livecd moved
to /releases
* AMD64 - New LiveCD with corrected Speakup support, pnpbios is turned
off by default, and distfiles for dhcpcd, slocate, usbutils, and pciutils
added to the Universal CD
* HPPA - This CD adds lvm2 support to the LiveCD
* x86 - Additions identical as for AMD64, and the x86 PackageCD was
recompiled due to a missing glib dependency on kdegraphics
You can find the maintenance release media in the same location as the
2004.3 release media on your favorite Gentoo mirror.
UK Gentoo Developer Meeting Preannouncement
-------------------------------------------
The UK-based Gentoo developers are pleased to announce that the Gentoo UK
2005 Conference will be held on Saturday 12th March 2005 at the University
of Salford, with social events the night before and the night after. The
theme for this year's Conference is "Success with Gentoo", and they will
be running both a Speakers Programme and a Demonstration Programme.
They're inviting developers and users alike who wish to take part in the
programme to submit their proposals before 31st December 2004. For more
details, see the Conference website[6]
6. http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/2005/
==============
2. Future zone
==============
Gentoo on a 256MB USB stick: Flash Linux
----------------------------------------
Note: Topics for this section may occasionally include projects that are
not officially part of Gentoo, but affect it in one way or the other. This
could be development in the wild that is is bound to end up being a Gentoo
project in the future, or something that's inspired by and based on
Gentoo, but heads off in a different direction all by itself. One of the
latter is the topic for this week's column:
FlashLinux[7] is a customized Linux variant designed to be run directly
off a USB key or similar forms of bootable flash memory. Gareth Bult and
his helpers have based their trimmed-to-fit binary distribution entirely
on Gentoo Linux, with a special focus on Gnome 2.8, and the aim to to
produce something that would encourage Windows users to give Linux a try.
"The applications we included may not be a programmer's dream, but we're
hoping they're what the average user is looking to get from a modern
desktop system," says Gareth. Currently included are Evolution, XChat,
Firefox, and a Ximian build of OpenOffice, along with many more[8].
7. http://www.encryptec.net/flashlinux/
8. http://www.encryptec.net/flashlinux/flash032/index.html
The choice of Gentoo as the base for Flash Linux seemed obvious, even if
generously overlooking the fact that its creator is a Gentoo user who has
been running his web servers on Gentoo Linux for the past twelve months.
"I was looking for something as nippy as possible, and the task was to fit
a quart into a pint pot," he explains - implicitly leaving little to no
alternatives to FlashLinux being based on Gentoo. Provided a (x86 or
AMD64) computer's BIOS allows for booting off a USB stick in the first
place, the FlashLinux key fires up a 2.6.7-gentoo-r14 kernel, autoconfig
comes from the Knoppix tools and provides hardware detection, and
mkxf86config does the X setup. There's a GRUB based choice of either LAN
or dialup configurations, at two different screen resolutions each.
Figure 2.1: Windows-swatting penguin splashscreen: FlashLinux USB key
booting
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20041206-fl.jpg
"Everybody knows the LAN setup works perfectly in the Gentoo LiveCDs, but
we were surprised how well dialup is integrated, too," says Gareth Bult.
While comments he received from early adopters show mostly awe that this
fits onto a 256MB key - that even keeps 50MB of free space - the stick
itself is where the developers identify a decisive factor. According to
them, the choice of media is crucial for a usable configuration: "USB 1.0
keys only transfer data at 1Mbps and are unusable when it comes to
FlashLinux. But even USB 2.0 keys do not really transfer data at 480Mbps,
typical rates vary between 5 and 10Mbps." But even the more expensive
recommendations in USB memory sticks are typically still within a 30 USD
price range.
The FlashLinux creator has placed his work under the GPL, and hopes for
outside help from people interested in different aspects, like making the
USB sticks ADSL-ready, solving bootsplash issues with newer kernels, and
other contributions or ideas that are most welcome. The contact address is
hostmaster@encryptec.net.
==================
3. Gentoo security
==================
Open DC Hub: Remote code execution
----------------------------------
Open DC Hub contains a buffer overflow that can be exploited to allow
remote code execution.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[9]
9. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200411-37.xml
Sun and Blackdown Java: Applet privilege escalation
---------------------------------------------------
The Java plug-in security in Sun and Blackdown Java environments can be
bypassed to access arbitrary packages, allowing untrusted Java applets to
perform unrestricted actions on the host system.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[10]
10. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200411-38.xml
rssh, scponly: Unrestricted command execution
---------------------------------------------
rssh and scponly do not filter command-line options that can be exploited
to execute any command, thereby allowing a remote user to completely
bypass the restricted shell.
For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[11]
11. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200412-01.xml
=========================
4. Heard in the community
=========================
gentoo-user
-----------
udev or devfs
Systems running a 2.6 kernel now have the option of installing udev. One
user notices some of the online Gentoo documentation still advises devfs
and asks for suggestions on configuring udev.
* new 2004.3 system - to devfs or not to devfs, that is the question[12]
12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/110178
To opt or not to opt. That is the question!
A discussion regarding the location of the gentoo-rsync-mirror ebuild's
install popped up this week. Why was it in /opt? Shouldn't it be in /usr?
A series of (opinioned) answers came in, including some brief history of
where /opt came from in the first place.
* Local portage repository[13]
13. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/110104
Gentoo... Limiting?
One of the Gentoo provisions is that users have full control over their
system. Is this true? One lister posed this question on the gentoo-user
mailing list this week. It of course spawned a great discussion. The short
of it is that Gentoo is as configurable as you want it to be, as long as
you learn the tools in Portage fully.
* Gentoo limitations[14]
14. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/110040
libperl rebuilder
After upgrading Perl packages one user asks how to update all the Perl
modules.
* Upgrading Perl Modules when Upgrading Perl[15]
15. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/109990
Best Digital Camera for Linux?
Nothing can be more frustrating than buying a shiny new computer toy, just
to find out that it does not work with your favorite Linux distribution.
With Christmas right around the corner; the gifts for geeks shopping
season is ramping up into full gear. This thread has some tips for
purchasing a digital camera that will work seamlessly with Gentoo--or any
Linux for that matter!
* Suggestions for a Digital Camera under Linux[16]
16. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/109549
=======================
5. Gentoo International
=======================
Italy: GentooDay report
-----------------------
"Macelli Comunali", the municipal slaughterhouse, sounds a bit strange for
a meeting in the framework of the Italian LinuxDay, but the Gechi's
contact in Prato, a nice little town near Florence, assured penguins of
the Gentoo variety wouldn't run any danger: It's an old palace now, used
as meeting spot and conference hall for many activities of non-profit
organizations.
The place was cold, but the Gechi effectively heated it with their
computers. Half an hour into the event, the distfiles and rsync mirror for
people was set up, and the LAN was fully working for present Gentoo users
to do a few happy emerges. Being curious about each other characterized
much of the atmosphere in the morning, since it was the first meeting ever
for many of the Gechis. While others continued to trickle in, Giulio
Salani (zuglio)[17] explained about his Vidalinux tests, and Matteo
Pescarin (peach)[18] showed his wonderful posters.
17. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=27023
18. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=15873
In the afternoon Giacomo Benvenuti (benve)[19] did a ceremonial first
download from the new experimental Italian Gentoo mirror in Bologna[20],
and some people created a distcc LAN between their laptops.
19. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=16241
20. http://ftp.students.cs.unibo.it/gentoo/
Then it was time for the presentations, and the first was about Andrea
Perotti's (deadhead)[21] "Success stories of Gentoo in commercial
companies". Unfortunately, Andrea had to fight the projector for an hour,
and could only begin after that, leaving no time for Giovanni Ferri's
(FonderiaDigitale)[22]'s talk about the "Creation of a blackbox for
securing your network environment" that was also planned for the afternoon
slot. Giovanni's extraordinary presentation was finally held later that
night, but ordinary visitors had all left by then, he only spoke to a
nucleus of Gentoo activists, all well-fed with an intriguing local
delicacy known as an F2 sandwich.
21. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=36380
22. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=15873
Figure 5.1: Gechi activists at the former abattoir of Prato
http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20041206-gday.jpg
Note: Left to right: Cazzantoio, akiross, oRDeX, lavish, randomaze,
nemesix2001, .:deadhead:., and sitting in front holding the magic penguin
that never falls from the table: genGNUbbo
Austria: New AGLUG website
--------------------------
The former Vienna Gentoo Linux Users Group has grown steadily over the
year, and now broadened its focus to encompass an all-Austrian support
group. A new website[23] has been set up that carries many new services,
including a brand new Austrian Gentoo user forum, and an RSS feed for
local news. Stammtisch-type regular meetings are being organized every
month, with the next one to take place on 16 December. Check the event
calendar[24] for details.
23. http://www.aglug.net
24. http://www.aglug.net/index.php?option=com_events&Itemid=40
Germany: Nürnberg meeting report
---------------------------------
Karl Hansl reports from the first meeting in Nürnberg last week: "Local
Gentoo users met and discussed typical Linux topics, such as which
motorcycle brand was faster, Kawasaki or Honda, and had some off-topic
chats about programming, too. Current experience tells us that GUGN
participants come from all ranges of society, self-employed, students, IT
interns, and professional sysadmins. We'll definitely meet again, on 5
January 2005, and hope that others can join us then."
======================
6. Gentoo in the press
======================
Linux Devices (3 December 2004)
-------------------------------
Linux Devices extensively covers the Gentoo Embedded project this week, in
an article about the "New kid on the embedded Linux block"[25]. The author
links to the Gentoo Embedded web page[26], has friendly words for all
developers involved, and even extends an official welcome to Gentoo Linux
in the name of the Embedded community!
25. http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3119470185.html
26. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/index.xml
ZDNet UK update (3 December 2004)
---------------------------------
Based on additional information by Gentoo release engineering lead Chris
Gianelloni[27], the ZDNet editors have updated the article on upcoming
releases of Gentoo Linux[28] initially published last week. Details of
experimental features planned, like the installer project and the option
of running Gentoo Linux completely off the LiveCD, have been sorted out
and are most accurately reflected in the current version.
27. wolf31o2@gentoo.org
28. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39175014,00.htm
===========
7. Bugzilla
===========
Summary
-------
* Statistics
* Closed bug ranking
* New bug rankings
Statistics
----------
The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[29]) to record and
track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
development team. Between 28 November 2004 and 05 December 2004, activity
on the site has resulted in:
29. http://bugs.gentoo.org
* 717 new bugs during this period
* 458 bugs closed or resolved during this period
* 30 previously closed bugs were reopened this period
Of the 7619 currently open bugs: 130 are labeled 'blocker', 239 are
labeled 'critical', and 560 are labeled 'major'.
Closed bug rankings
-------------------
The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period
are:
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[30], with 35 closed bugs[31]
* Gentoo KDE team[32], with 25 closed bugs[33]
* Gentoo Games[34], with 19 closed bugs[35]
* AMD64 Porting Team[36], with 18 closed bugs[37]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[38], with 17 closed bugs[39]
* Daniel Black[40], with 17 closed bugs[41]
* Java team[42], with 16 closed bugs[43]
* Jeremy Huddleston[44], with 13 closed bugs[45]
30. base-system@gentoo.org
31.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
32. kde@gentoo.org
33.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org
34. games@gentoo.org
35.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org
36. amd64@gentoo.org
37.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
38. gnome@gentoo.org
39.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
40. dragonheart@gentoo.org
41.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=dragonheart@gentoo.org
42. java@gentoo.org
43.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=java@gentoo.org
44. eradicator@gentoo.org
45.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=eradicator@gentoo.org
New bug rankings
----------------
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during
this period are:
* Java team[46], with 19 new bugs[47]
* AMD64 Porting Team[48], with 15 new bugs[49]
* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[50], with 13 new bugs[51]
* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[52], with 13 new bugs[53]
* Gentoo X-windows packagers[54], with 10 new bugs[55]
* SpanKY[56], with 10 new bugs[57]
* media-video herd[58], with 10 new bugs[59]
* Portage team[60], with 10 new bugs[61]
46. java@gentoo.org
47.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=java@gentoo.org
48. amd64@gentoo.org
49.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org
50. gnome@gentoo.org
51.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=gnome@gentoo.org
52. base-system@gentoo.org
53.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org
54. x11@gentoo.org
55.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=x11@gentoo.org
56. vapier@gentoo.org
57.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=vapier@gentoo.org
58. media-video@gentoo.org
59.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org
60. dev-portage@gentoo.org
61.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-11-28&chfieldto=2004-12-05&assigned_to=dev-portage@gentoo.org
==================
8. Tips and Tricks
==================
Revival of the Compose Key a.k.a. Multi_Key
-------------------------------------------
Many users are on a keyboard layout which does not allow to type other
characters than those printed on the keys. There are some workarounds with
so-called "deadkeys" so that you can type characters with accents, but
that does not enable you to type all characters in your locale.
On many Unix-machines you can find a "Compose Key" on the attached
keyboard. With that special key you can "compose" the desired character.
For instance, typing the sequence <compose> <"> <a> will result in the
Umlaut ä. Or take <compose> </> <o> for a danish ø. With X it is no
problem to declare any key as the Compose Key, or "Multi_Key" as it is
called in the internal routines. Just remember that a keyboard sends only
keycodes, and that it is unimportant which keycode represents a given
character or special key.
To enable the Compose Key you have to alter your /etc/X11/xorg.conf. There
are other ways, like using xmodmap, but the global configuration with the
xorg.conf ensures that the Compose Key will be available to all users. I
recommend the right "Windows Key" (just one of the two on your keyboard
enabled should be enough):
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Code Listing 8.1: |
|Enable the Compose Key in the |
xorg.conf------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
| |
|# Your section in xorg.conf about the keyboard looks similar to this: |
|Section "InputDevice" |
| Identifier "Keyboard0" |
| Driver "kbd" |
| Option "XkbModel" "pc104" |
| Option "XkbLayout" "us" |
| Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin" |
|EndSection |
| |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
After you restart X, you should be able to type the characters in the
example above. A complete list of available Compose Key characters with
their description can be found in the file
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/<your_character_enocding>/Compose.
===========================
9. Moves, adds, and changes
===========================
Moves
-----
The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
* None this week
Adds
----
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
* Joe McCann (joem) - Gnome development
* Michael Stewart (vericgar) - Apache
Changes
-------
The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux
project:
* None this week
=====================
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