Well… I intended to be more organized and get these posted on time each month. Maybe next year.

January:

• Red Hat and CentOS joined forces, while paid SUSE staff will work less on openSUSE
• kGraft for rebootless kernel updates
• The yearly summary of who is writing Linux
• Take a look at what nftables will do for you
• People were once opposed to udev
• Better stack protection is on its way in gcc-4.9
• Stallman’s opinions on LLVM are not very surprising
• Look at all the ABIs that are supported by glibc
• Valve gives away its games to Debian developers
• Some more information on kdbus
• Fedora 21 has a longer development cycle than usual
• A lot of security bugs were found in Xorg, including one from 1991!
• Looking to cairo for a standard c++ 2d API, why it is bad, and why we should ignore that last link!
• How to add new C++ warnings with the gcc-python-plugin
• Some discussion of the portability of init systems
• The Debian init system vote started, came to no conclusion, then was summarized.
• Finally, we need to write the Linux kernel in PERL

February:

• glibc-2.19 was released and here is some of the improvements for developers
• And apparently glibc is good code!
• Debian had more votes about the init system, eventually deciding on systemd as the default
• No decision was made on how strongly packages can depend on an init system
• This will also result in Ubuntu switching to systemd too
• gcc-4.9 has moved to release branch mode, looking towards and April release
• An analysis of compiler hardening in Debian
• Building the assembler as a shared library
• Why inline PGP signatures are bad
• Sometimes making a nice icon set is not enough…
• Ubuntu is making their own file manager for Unity
• MINIX can now run on ARM
• Why you should not to travel back in time to kill Hitler