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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: January 26, 2004
"Much progress has been made recently in integrating SELinux into Gentoo Linux..."
Free Standards Group Reaches Major Milestone in Advancing ...
While some work remains before we attain ISO certification for the Linux operating system, the designation of the Free Standards Group as a PAS submitter is a
IT Investor's Journal: A close look at Sun Microsystems
Our IT investment expert, Melanie Hollands, takes a no-nonsense, in-depth look at the current state of Sun Microsystems, corporate owner of the Java franchise and ostensible leader of the Java development community. More than a few people are concerned that after 22 years as an innovator and power player in enterprise IT, that Sun might erode into simply a niche player, dropping out of the same league as Microsoft and IBM in IT power and influence. What's your take on where the house of Solaris is headed? Read on for our writer's assessment ...
Open-source Samba takes on enterprise
The latest release of Samba, a widely used open-source application for file sharing on networks running Microsoft Windows, is for large-scale deployments
ARM Linux Distributions
"Debian is by far the most appropriate choice for an ARM desktop distribution, for reasons I'll discuss shortly. "
The State of Open Source
NEW YORK -- A leader of the Open Source movement recently offered sharp words about legal battles in the community, ranging from SCO's fight for code control
Red Hat Updates Management, Provisioning Tools
By Jacqueline Emigh. Red Hat Inc. officials last week beat the drum about the need for better system administration tools for Linux.
Microsoft faces off with Linux fans
Do you promise not to engage in unethical or anticompetitive behavior against the Linux community?" asked one attendee, while another shouted, "Open the
Fast-moving Virus Launches DDoS on SCO
A fast-spreading e-mail virus appears to be using infected machines to launch a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) on the sco.com web site, according Property License, but its channel partners are hardly chomping at the
MySQL's MaxDB: A work in progress
Most people working in the database world know about the open source database MySQL, but fewer are familiar with MaxDB, MySQL's enterprise-class brother. The current MaxDB release is basically a rebranded release of SAP DB with a number of incremental improvements.
Danish electronic document repository: Did government read fine print?
As an individual who is participating in the development of free software solutions for enabling e-government access for the blind, I was very interested to learn of the Danish government's effort to create an electronic document repository. However, the government will face some serious problems if it is carried through according to the current plan. Here's why.
Syhunt Announces the Availability of its Security Hardening ...
says TrustSight Security Hardening can be used with other software, such as ModSecurity, to enhance the security of Apache servers and servers running PHP.
Fedora Legacy alert: Updated screen resolves security vulnerability
Updated screen packages are now available that fix a security
vulnerability which may allow privilege escalation for local users, and
possibly remote attacks or getting control of another user's screen.
Mandrake security alert: Updated mc packages fix buffer overflow vulnerability
"A buffer overflow was discovered in mc's virtual filesystem code.
This vulnerability could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary
code during symlink conversion."
Mandrake security alert: Updated gaim packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
"A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in the gaim instant messenger program by Steffan Esser, versions 0.75 and earlier. Thanks to Jacques A. Vidrine for providing initial patches."
Mandrake alert: Updated tcpdump packages fix several vulnerabilities
A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in tcpdump versions prior to 3.8.1 that, if fed a maliciously crafted packet, could be exploited to crash tcpdump or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running tcpdump. These vulnerabilities include:
Mandrake alert: Updated gaim packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
A number of vulnerabilities were discovered in the gaim instant messenger program by Steffan Esser, versions 0.75 and earlier. Thanks to Jacques A. Vidrine for providing initial patches.
The Last Linux on the Desktop Article - - Hopefully
By Special Contributor Ben Mazer - Posted on 2004-01-26 19:52:08. Lately, there has been a "Why linux isn't ready for the desktop" article every 3 days. that it is the first groupware product to run entirely on Linux at both
Debian alert: New gnupg packages fix cryptographic weakness in ElGamal signing keys
"Phong Nguyen identified a severe bug in the way GnuPG creates and uses
ElGamal keys for signing. This is a significant security failure
which can lead to a compromise of almost all ElGamal keys used for
signing."
Slackware security: GAIM security update (SSA:2004-026-01)
"12 vulnerabilities were found in the instant messenger GAIM that
allow remote compromise. All sites using GAIM should upgrade to these
new packages."
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