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Rus-cert Criticizes Mozilla Security Bugs Policy
The Computer Emergency Response Team of the University of Stuttgart (RUS-CERT) criticizes Mozilla's security approach to security leaks. They find fault in the fact that no official security advisories are published by the Mozilla Foundation. Instead security leaks are silently patched and incorporated into newer releases.
Translating Mozilla with Portable Object Templates
This article explains how you can use .pot files to translate Mozilla products or extensions. Let's retire Mozilla Translator; using .pot files from the GNU/Gettext library is much easier, IMHO.
Sun should Open Source unprofitable parts of Java
It would be better for Sun to look at the parts of Java that do not lead to server-sales or profit, and to farm them off into smaller, separate, focussed, Open Source efforts whose can concentrate on maintaining them. The name of this game is No Resource Contention: the community interested in one library should be able to concentrate on it.
Backing Up And Restoring Your MySQL Database
If you've been using MySQL database to store your important data, it is imperative that you make a backup of your data to prevent any loss of data. This article shows you how to backup and restore data in your MySQL database. This process can also be used if you have to move your data to a new server.
MIPS-based core to run Linux, Java byte code in parallel
/k/ Embedded Java Solutions (prounounced "kah") and Quest Innovations B.V. will partner to develop a MIPS-based 32-bit CPU core that will run Linux software in parallel with a hardware execution engine for Java byte codes. The device will target low-cost Java-enabled embedded devices.
Brazil to train 1000 workers to use free software
Brazil's government says it will train a thousand state workers to use freely available software as part of an effort to save more than 18 million pounds in information technology costs.
Linux brings Mars Rover images to earth
Linux is powering the infrastructure behind a distributed global network hosting images of the current Mars Rover and the European Space Agency's recent Rosetta comet chaser mission.
'default' open-source licensing plans under fire
...Furthermore, government departments are banned from using products that do not support open standards and specifications, they will seek to avoid lock-in to proprietary products and services, and will consider obtaining full rights to any bespoke code that they commission.
Migrating to Linux kernel 2.6 -- Part 5: Migrating apps to the 2.6 kernel and NPTL
For most application developers, changes between the 2.4 and 2.6 kernel families have little direct impact. However, kernel and system changes that affect how applications spawn and manage other processes and threads are a significant exception to this rule. This whitepaper discusses topics related to migrating existing applications to the 2.6 kernel and the Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL).
My Linux Desktop Odyssey, 2004
Michael C. Barnes updates his in-depth review of Linux desktop operating systems. In this exclusive article at DesktopLinux.com, Barnes examines how far the Linux distributions have come over the past year, updating his popular first article and evaluating the current versions of leading Desktop Linux desktop options including Ark Linux, ELX Linux, Lycoris, MEPHIS, Vector Linux, Xandros, as well as Live CDs including Puppy Linux and Flonix . . .
Open source's local heroes
The leading desktop interfaces for the open-source Linux operating system—KDE and GNOME—are, between them, available in more than twice as many languages as Windows. KDE has already been localised for 42 languages, with a further 46 in the pipeline. Similarly, Mozilla, an open-source web browser, now speaks 65 languages, with 34 more to follow. OpenOffice, the leading open-source office suite, is available in 31 languages, including Slovenian, Basque and Galician, and Indian languages such as Gujarati, Devanagari, Kannada and Malayalam. And another 44 languages including Icelandic, Lao, Latvian, Welsh and Yiddish are on the way
Free Software Attracts Investors In Norwegian IPO
Opera, the company behind the Opera Web browser, raised $34.7 million and will trade on the Oslo stock exchange.
UK government trials desktop Linux
Public spending watchdog the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has signed a framework pricing agreement for Sun's Linux-based Java Desktop System (JDS) and a series of trials will begin in the New Year.
Mandrake newsletter: Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community Available on FTP Mirrors
ISO images of Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community are now publicly available on a number of FTP mirrors.
VLANs on Linux
An introduction to VLANs and VLAN trunking, how Linux interacts with VLANs and how you might use them in networks.
China sets up Windows and Linux labs
Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft have separately reached agreements with the Chinese government to develop, respectively, open-source and Windows software.
Open Source Gold Rush for Venture Investment or the Next Bust?
Open Source Business Conference 2004, the premier event for open source software and business, today announced the final line up of venture capital and investment speakers for the March 16 and 17 conference being held at the West St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.
Linux kernel 2.6.4 released
A few small fixes since -rc3, most notably an OHCI bug that would corrupt memory and seems to have been the reason for the "Bad page flags" bug at least on ppc64 (it's not been reported on x86, as far as I know, but I don't see why the corruption couldn't have happened there too).
Open source no threat in Asia: Microsoft
Although the governments of some Asian countries like China and Malaysia have openly declared their support for the open source movement, a Microsoft Corp. official remains unfazed, saying this poses no threat to the company's business in the region.
Debian alert: New calife packages fix buffer overflow
Calife, a program which provides super user privileges to specific users, was found to contain a buffer overflow related to the getpass(3) library function. A local attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, given knowledge of a local user's password and the presence of at least one entry in /etc/calife.auth, to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
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