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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.

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.

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.

Could the PC builder market be headed for a potential train wreck akin to the ongoing clash between SCO and the Linux community?

This release fixes a lot of bugs and regressions from the bonoboui->libegg port.

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.

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.

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.

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 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...

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

A person or a company falsely claiming to have ownership of a product or service or the rights to payment could breach the Fair Trading Act, said Maitland.

Tripwire is an Intrusion Detection System. This can be used to alert users whenever their system is compromised. Tripwire detects and reports changes in system files. It will alert you through email whenever a change is detected.

SCO Group, Inc. has been making more legal headlines than software news during the last year. Our business analyst, Melanie Hollands, take a detailed look at SCO's business acumen and evaluates its prospects in the stock market.

Kinyarwanda, the language spoken by most Rwandans, has no words for many basic technical and computing terms, including the very word "computer," explained Steve Murphy, organizer of the project. After debating whether to borrow English or French terms or come up with their own native word, the group settled on "mudasobwa," which roughly translates to "something or someone that does not make mistakes."

Note that this is considered beta software and not recommended for production use. There is still some work left on it before we consider it a real Trustix release.

So why do we release it? We feel we're getting close to a point where this version of TSL is ready for release, but would like more input from our users before releasing this as a proper 2.1 release.