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Making the ViewSonic Tablet PC Run Linux
Rescuing a ViewSonic Tablet from the junkpile by installing SuSE 9.0.
Why UN's information society summit is doomed to fail
The United Nations World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) has been doomed to failure from the start. That may seem odd, given both the abundance of free and open source software and the apparent interest by the UN in making such tools available to the impoverished -- a combination that seems a no-brainer. But in spite of the alignment of resource, need, and interest, the WSIS plan will fail. Here's why.
Sybase ports IQ 12.5 to Linux
Sybase's Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 12.5.1, the company's enterprise-class relational database management system (RDBMS), has also been certified for Silicon Graphics SGI Advanced Linux Environment software.
Gentoo Weekly Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 7
This week the newsletter features an interesting interview with a Gentoo developer, and diverse other news.
Gentoo alert: phpMyAdmin < 2.5.6-rc1 directory traversal attack
A vulnerability in phpMyAdmin which was not properly verifying user
generated input could lead to a directory traversal attack.
Gentoo alert: Linux kernel AMD64 ptrace vulnerability
A vulnerability has been discovered by in the ptrace emulation code for
AMD64 platforms when eflags are processed, allowing a local user to
obtain elevated priveleges.
Which Distribution and Where to Get Them
Lately we've received many questions from users wanting to know which distribution they should choose and how to go about obtaining them. Today we've addressed this by pointing to a topic from the forums that should help you get a head start on what's what and where to get it. Read on for more information.
HP Linux SuperComputer Designs BMW Race Car
At the BMW WilliamsF1 team's headquarters, HP announced it played a critical role in the construction and aerodynamic modelling of the groundbreaking new shape of the FW26 car.
Will Intergraph legal battle be the next SCO?
Could the PC builder market be headed for a potential train wreck akin to the ongoing clash between SCO and the Linux community?
Galeon 1.3.13 released
This release fixes a lot of bugs and regressions from the bonoboui->libegg port.
All you have to know about RPM
I'll show an easy way for yum repository building with wget and how to use it...The problems will be shown here starting from "How to install" famous rpm commands and then going to more interesting ones.
Munich's switch to Linux facing a bumpy road
The city of Munich's plan to migrate its workers from Windows to Linux has hit a few snags, according to a story in Wired. Financial concerns over the cost of the project coupled with political concerns from within the city government have slowed the city's efforts to convert its 14,000 computers to the open-source operating system, and now the city has requested a complete briefing on the costs associated with the project.
Microsoft's Loss Not Linux's Gain
There's a lot of glee in Linuxville right now, and Microsoft's name is mud in some circles. But the Linux community's reports of its death are premature.
Deploying WebLogic on Linux - You are not alone
The rising business trend toward using open source software platforms has brought an increase in the number of critical applications deployed on Linux and BEA WebLogic. For many organizations, in fact, WebLogic deployments are their first major Linux installation.
IBM brings text-to-speech to the Linux desktop
IBM Corp. researchers are bringing text-to-speech capabilities to the Linux desktop.
Previously, production versions of IBM’s text-to-speech engine had been available only for the Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh platforms...
Conectiva alert: squid
This update adds support for NTLM authentication[2]. In conjunction
with a previous samba update[3], this allows the use of encrypted
authentication between the client browser and the proxy server if the
browser supports NTLM (Internet Explorer and Mozilla 1.6 or higher at
this time) and if the proxy machine is a member of an NT domain.
Conectiva alert: samba
This update provides new samba packages which were compiled with the
--with-winbind-auth-challenge option. This option enables NTLM
challenge-response authentication in winbind and is used, for
example, in conjunction with the squid proxy server[2] to avoid the
use of clear text proxy passwords between the client browser and the
proxy server.
Who's The Fastest Growing Linux Distro?
Which Linux distribution is the most popular? For many players in the open source realm, that answer depends on which part of the globe is counting, and how.
Embedded Linux Market Survey deadline approaching; please vote now
LinuxDevices.com's fourth annual Embedded Linux Market Survey is coming to a close, so vote now if you wish your voice to be heard by the many industry decision makers, market analysts, and developers who read and are influenced by this important study.
SE/Linux Goes Mainstream with Red Hat!
SE/Linux has been available for download for several years, but until now there has been no "officially supported" Linux distribution that included SE/Linux enhancements. Lack of major distro support required individual users to download patches and integrate them into their own systems.
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