Final collection of links for the year…

Software related:

• More posts on secure boot
• i386 support was dropped from the Linux kernel, which immediately sparked a discussion about dropping it from GCC (glibc has not for a long time)
• After several moths of discussion, eudev was officially announced
• A new release of the GNU C Library was announced (and is in the Arch repos)
• As was the release of LLVM 3.2
• A summary of C 2011 standard implementation status and why GNU should allow it
• The Wikipedia visual editor went live

Thinks happening in other Linux distributions:

• The Linux Format comparison of Linux distribtions (mentioned a few months back) was made available on-line
• But should OpenSUSE Tumbleweed have beaten Arch?
• A stroy about the history of the HURD
• Debian’s m86k port got some love
• Chakra fixed the bug I found in their installer
• A Manjaro demonstrated why automatically updating config files is bad – read the command they run for good entertainment value…

It was a month for some good rants:

• RMS does not like Ubuntu’s spyware…
• But he is childish, or maybe not!
• Anonymous bug reports are fun!
• GnuTLS is moving away from GNU and the maintainer of sed and grep feels the same way
• I am not sure if I understand what a Manjaro Linux release means

And because it is the end of the year:

• We moved ever so slowly into the future