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Several security issues were fixed in cups-filters. Sebastian Krahmer discovered that cups-browsed incorrectly filtered remote printer names and strings. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary commands. (CVE-2014-2707)

Phillip Hallam-Baker discovered that window property values could be queried in rxvt-unicode, resulting in the potential execution of arbitrary commands.

D-Link has jumped into the IoT space, with a Linux-based smart AC power socket for IP-based monitoring and control of lights and other appliances. We all know D-Link as a maker of routers, NAS devices, surveillance cameras, and media players, but the “DSP-W215 Wi-Fi Smart Plug” represents a new milestone for the company: its entry into the brave new world of the “Intenet of Things” (IoT).

Over the past years, I've played a leading role in helping to bring openness to the storage industry. At Nexenta, we inherited great technology from Sun Microsystems and went to market with an open core business model. This model, and a lot else, worked well and Nexenta has been called "the most disruptive storage company of the last 10 years" in part because of the impact we had on legacy, lock-in based proprietary vendors.

Say what you want about web browsers on Linux, I just miss Internet Explorer. No let's be serious. A great thing about Linux distributions is in general that they come packaged with a good browser. If that browser is not your favorite, you can easily install another one (and you don't necessarily need a browser […]Continue reading... The post What are the alternatives to Google Chrome and Firefox on Linux? appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to install Google Chrome on Linux How to install an old version of Firefox on Linux How to browse the web anonymously with Google Chrome How to install Adobe Flash Player on Linux How to use Google Web Designer for HTML5 design on Linux

Use the power of Arduino to do otherwise impossible projects with just a Raspberry Pi alone

Fedora 21 has got the go ahead to properly implement GNOME in Wayland, the successor to X11. It may also end up the default display server

Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support (LEMP) On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an Ubuntu 14.04 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP) .

I have a love/hate relationship with Waze. The idea of peer collaboration regarding traffic, combined with the technology to accomplish it on an enormous scale is truly amazing. Yet, every time I've used Waze myself, it's been an exercise in frustration. It has insisted I turn left off a bridge, and then it refused to reroute me when I didn't.

Implementing SSL Perfect Forward Secrecy in NGINX Web-Server This HOW-TO describes the process of implementing Perfect Forward Secrecy with the NGINX web-server on Debian and Ubuntu systems. The process can readily be adapted to other GNU/Linux systems.

Private, open source search engine DuckDuckGo gains video and image search in the beta, due to be implemented in normal version soon

Lately Docker has emerged as a key technology in deploying applications in the cloud environment. Compared to traditional hardware virtualization, Docker-based container sandbox provides a number of advantages in application deployment, such as lightweight isolation, deployment portability, ease of maintenance, etc. Now Red Hat is steering community efforts in streamlining the management and deployment of […]Continue reading... The post How to run Docker containers on CentOS or Fedora appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to manage Linux containers with Docker on Ubuntu How to set up a Subversion (SVN) server on CentOS or Fedora How to install RPM Fusion on Fedora or CentOS How to find what package a file belongs to on CentOS or Fedora How to fix yum errors on CentOS, RHEL or Fedora

OpenStack Horizon did not properly process Heat templates.

LibTIFF could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened aspecially crafted file.

Analysis In the 1990s, Intel and Microsoft dominated the "open" PC standard – and it appears that Google now wants to do the same for its Android system, via its Silver programme.

In my last article, I looked at NumPY and some of its uses in numerical simulations. Although NumPY does provide some really robust building blocks, it is a bit lacking in more sophisticated tools. SciPY is one of the many Python modules that build on NumPY's.

Death from above brought to you by the happy, peaceful world of open source Hey, Linux fans: a high-profile, colossal, global outfit is about to dump a proprietary operating system and replace it with Linux in a very, very, demanding application that literally involves life and death situations.…

When I walked into Carroll Hall, for a moment I felt like I was back in college... and at the World’s Best Slumber Party. There were tables full of salty snacks, stacks of sleeping bags, and the chatter of excited young women. But, unlike the sleepovers of my youth, talk was about Python, HTML, and Ruby. These were young women interested in learning to code.

Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a versatile disk management system that can easily be used in Linux or similar operating systems. traditional partitions are created in fixed sizes, and resizing them is a tedious process. On the other hand, LVM creates and manages "logical" volumes off of physical hard disks, and provides administrators the flexibility […]Continue reading... The post How to use LVM in Linux appeared first on Xmodulo. Related FAQs: How to create a Linux LVM partition How to build a network attached storage (NAS) server with Openfiler How to run fdisk in non-interactive batch mode How to create an encrypted disk partition on Linux How to change a XenServer’s local storage repository from LVM to EXT

I do a lot of work on open source, but my most valuable contributions haven't been code. Writing a patch is the easiest part of open source. The truly hard stuff is all of the rest: bug trackers, mailing lists, documentation, and other management tasks. Here's some things I've learned along the way.