A bit late this month… Tough!

• The SUSE team developed an AArch64 port for QEMU
• Using XMir by default was abandoned at the last minute for Ubunutu 13.10, and here is some discussion the issues it has
• The X.Org foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) again
• Work has started on an embedded JIT for GCC , and some python bindings appeared.
• Firefox is getting its own flash player
• Google is offering rewards for security issue in a range of core free software.
• The 3.0 linux kernel has had 100 patches released!
• Debian Jessie has its freeze announced – for a years time…
• Fedora is doing its usual slip in its release timeframe
• Android 4.4 (Kit Kat) is out – somebody get the update to my Nexus 7…
• Debian is choosing its next init system, which of course resulted in some back and forth
• The beginnings of a rust frontend for gcc
• Lots of compiler features coming for gcc and llvm
• Surely automatic wordpress updates can only end in disaster!
• Fedora are moving towards Python 3 as the default – sort of… (/usr/bin/python will stay python2)
• Binutils and gdb moved to git
• How to debug stack protector failures
• Video of the kernel developer panel at LinuxCon + CloudOpen Europe 2013

And some space stuff I liked this month:

• This rocket is awesome!
• An awesome picture of Saturn