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LWNLWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community. URLhttp://lwn.netLast update5 min 34 sec agoJuly 4, 200805:11
TechWorld takes
a look at KOffice 2.0 Alpha 8. "KOffice 2.0 Alpha 8 ships as a
suite of applications. In addition to the familiar word processor (KWord),
spreadsheet (Kspread) and charting (Kchart), and presentation applications
(KPresenter), KOffice has a wealth of tools for content design,
manipulation and display. For the creative professional, there's Krita a
fully-fledged graphic design and image manipulation tool, Karbon14 a
Scalable Vector Graphics editor, and Kivio for flowcharts and diagrams.
Also included is Kexi for database development (touted as "Microsoft Access
for Linux"), and KPlato for project management. Other tools are KnetAttach,
a network folder wizard, Kformula for mathematical formula editing, and a
thesaurus." (Found on KDE.News)
Categories: News
05:11
SUSE has updated sudo, courier-authlib,
gnome-screensaver, clamav, php5, ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick, mtr, bind,
pcre, tomcat, squid, freetype2 (various issues).
Mandriva has updated php (multiple vulnerabilities: 2007.1, Corporate
4.0, 2008.0, 2008.1, Corporate
3.0, Multi Network Firewall 2.0, Corporate
4.0).
Fedora 8 has updated ruby (multiple
vulnerabilities).
Debian has updated wordpress
(several vulnerabilities).
Categories: News
04:29
Google's purchase of YouTube always seemed questionable to some observers:
it looked as if Google were buying itself a whole new source of copyright
lawsuits. One of the benefits of that purchase came through on
July 2, when a U.S. District Court ordered Google to hand over its
complete set of YouTube traffic logs, containing information about every
video viewed on the service. See
Groklaw for the full text of the order. If this order stands, millions
of users worldwide will have their viewing data handed over to a litigious
entertainment industry company. There's a couple of important implications
to draw from this turn of events, so LWN will venture a little far afield
and take a look.
Categories: News
00:42
The first maintenance release to the Ubuntu "Hardy" release is available.
They've fixed a number of issues, but not all of them... "While we have fixed a number of audio-related issues, including a
scheduler problem that caused audio stuttering under load, other
audio playback problems may still exist, because so far we have been
unable to verify a targeted fix that does not cause regressions for other
users."
Categories: News
July 3, 200809:46
Free Software Magazine
reviews the Acer Linpus Linux Lite ultra portable laptop.
"It is due to launch here in the UK in early July with the GNU/Linux version with a price tag of £199. (Yes, surprise, surprise, theyre offering Windows XP too.) Given the specification (Intel atom N270 chip, 8.9 inch screen, webcam, 1024 x 600 resolution, 8GB SSD, three USB ports, VGA, and two SD card slots, two mini PCI slots (one for the WiFi and one for upcoming Wimax or HSDPA), Ethernet port, touchpad, 802.11b/g WiFi and a default 512MB of memory with a spare slot to add more) the Aspire One represents stonking good value for money."
Categories: News
04:59
Purple Labs has
announced the acquisition of Openwave Systems.
"Purple Labs, a French developer of Linux-based mobile software, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of the mobile client software business of California-based Openwave Systems, in an asset sale valued at more than $32 million. The browser and messaging products acquired in the deal are among the best-selling mobile applications in the world, having already shipped in more than 1.5 billion mobile phones.
Following the acquisition, Purple Labs now supplies mobile browser software to all of the top 5 phone manufacturers, which together produce over 80% of the worlds mobile phones."
Categories: News
04:59
CentOS: has updated
seamonkey (multiple vulnerabilities) and
firefox (multiple vulnerabilities).
Fedora 8 has updated
glib2 (buffer overflow),
openldap (denial of service)
and
linuxdcpp (denial of service).
Fedora 9 has updated
glib2 (buffer overflow),
openldap (denial of service),
linuxdcpp (denial of service),
ruby (multiple vulnerabilities) and
squid (denial of service).
rPath has updated
mercurial (unauthorized access) and
tshark/wireshark (multiple vulnerabilities).
Categories: News
03:07
c|net
reports
on Invitrogen's switch to servers running SUSE Linux.
"Invitrogen is a billion-dollar supplier to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, with 4,700 employees worldwide and a history of supplying many of the world's leading laboratories in groundbreaking research like the discovery of the AIDS virus.
To help promote its innovative work, Invitrogen announced this week that it is standardizing on Novell's SUSE® Linux Enterprise for its servers."
Categories: News
01:08
July 2, 200812:55
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 3, 2008 is available.
Categories: News
06:23
Barracuda Networks has announced
the filing of a software patent countersuit against Trend Micro, using
three freshly-acquired patents. "'The reality is that Trend Micro is
asking Barracuda Networks to pay for the use of the free and open source
ClamAV software,' said Dean Drako, president and CEO of Barracuda
Networks. 'We have asserted all along that Trend Micro's actions are unjust
and could have serious implications against the open source community and
other free and open source projects.'"
See also: this
LinuxWorld article on the countersuit.
Categories: News
06:07
Debian has updated sympa (denial of
service).
Fedora has updated the kernel (heap
corruption and buffer overflow).
Red Hat has updated seamonkey (multiple
vulnerabilities), firefox (RHEL4, RHEL5: multiple vulnerabilities), Red Hat
Application stack for RHEL4 (obscure MySQL
vulnerability) and RHEL5 (same plus several
PHP vulnerabilities).
SUSE has updated the kernel
(multiple vulnerabilities).
Slackware has updated xorg-server
(multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated firefox (multiple
vulnerabilities).
Categories: News
05:03
Nearly a year ago, we looked at
the status of SystemTap in the context of Sun's much-hyped DTrace
tool. Since that time there has been progress, but the basic problem
still remains: Linux does not have a good, ready-to-run answer to those wanting
the equivalent functionality of DTrace. Due to an apparent
disconnect between the developers of SystemTap and the kernel hackers,
tracing for the Linux kernel—never mind user space programs—is
not up to the competition. This article (subscribers only) looks at recent
discussions on the issue and possible paths toward a solution to this problem.
Categories: News
02:00
Here's an
ars technica article telling frustrated KDE 4 users to give the
project a bit more time. "The single greatest strength of Plasma is
the inherent mutability that it brings to the desktop. It provides a very
flexible framework within which the developers can experiment with
completely different paradigms for basic components of the user
interface. That is why a fork is a profoundly misguided option at this
stage."
Categories: News
00:49
Openmoko has announced that its long-awaited phone will go on sale on
July 4. "The Openmoko Neo FreeRunner utilizes GNU/Linux and comes with core software for
dialing, SMS and recording contacts. Openmoko will supplement these features with
periodic downloads beginning with a software suite that takes full advantage of
the phone's hardware platform. The new software, debuting at Linux world in August,
will provide exciting new location based applications."
Categories: News
00:45
Now that openSUSE 11.0 is out, the project is looking forward to the 11.1
release. It's planned for December 18, and includes GNOME 2.24,
KDE 4.1,
and the 2.6.27 kernel. "Want to get involved? The start of a release cycle is a great time to
get involved in openSUSE development."
Categories: News
July 1, 200812:59
Xandros has sent out a set of questions and (not entirely satisfying)
answers from its CEO regarding the acquisition of Linspire. On the
question of how big the combined company will be: "Xandros has been on a fast growth path for the last couple of years; has
an aggressive headcount and revenue growth plan at this time; and is
currently in heavy hiring mode. We believe that at this point Xandros is
already the third largest Linux Company in the world, and that we may
already be the largest private Linux Company in the world."
Categories: News
07:12
cloudsecurity.org has an
interview with Guido van Rossum on the topics of
Google App Engine, Python and Security.
"cloudsecurity.org: I recently attended a fascinating talk by Justin Ferguson (a Seattle based security consultant) at eusecwest in London. He gave a great talk exploring security vulnerabilities in language interpreters and specifically highlighted some security weaknesses in Python App Engine. What are your thoughts on his research and specifically the Python issues he highlighted? When do you anticipate they will get fixed?
GvR: Weve anticipated all of the possibilities raised in Justins talk, and took measures to protect our users. Justin highlighted weaknesses in Python, but not in App Engine. Furthermore, our security model does not rely solely upon protections within the Python interpreter; there are additional protections that these external analyses have missed."
Categories: News
05:20
Linux-Watch looks at Linux
laptops for school children in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
"In evaluating laptop hardware, ELCOT claims to have two primary
tests. One is a "fire walk test" that requires laptops to survive being
stood and walked upon by 175-pound people. The other -- hopefully easier to
pass -- requires that they fully support Linux."
Categories: News
05:08
The Linux Hater's Blog has a
rant on the state of 3D graphics in Linux. "Alright, so as soon
as I started bitching about graphics, my coworker, lets just call him Linux
Graphics Hater (warm applause everyone! ready those tomatoes!), went off on
a rant the technical reasons why open source ATI and intel drivers still
suck ass. He also corrected me that nvidia might actually be making money
from some of these linux drivers. Good for them, but as long as they're
still kind of hiding the fact that they're only really doing it for their
paying customers, I think it supports my overall point." (Thanks to
Bob Miller)
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