Scientific Linux has released Scientific Linux 5.10. There are release notes available for i386 and x86_64.

Given that Linus Torvalds's biography is titled Just for Fun it seems appropriate that people working on Linux might expect to have some fun too. Yet when one hears the device tree concept (herein referred to as "devicetree") discussed at conferences or reads about it on mailing lists, there seems to be more agonizing and (generally constructive) arguments than enjoyment.

In this feature article, Neil Brown ports a new system to the device tree mechanism and reports on his conclusions. Click below (subscribers only) for the first installment of this two-part series.

The beta version of the Fedora 20 release is out. "The beta release is the last important milestone before the release of Fedora 20. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates up to the general release of Fedora 20." This is the best opportunity to get bugs fixed before the final release happens; click below for the full announcement with a long list of new features in Fedora 20.

Today's lone update is from Ubuntu for spice (13.04; 13.10: denial of service).