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[Highlights:] * Changing the way that Development lands
* New ticketing system for the Fedora Project
* Fedora Board chair looks ahead

SQL Injection is one of the most common security vulnerabilities on the web. Here I'll try to explain in detail these kinds of vulnerabilities with examples of bugs in PHP and possible solutions.

A live CD demontrating Qtopia Phone Edition (QPE) 4.1.1 can be downloaded from Trolltech's website, reports OSNews. Based on Knoppix Linux and the fluxbox window manager, the bootable CD includes software emulators that demonstrate both the touchscreen and keypad versions of the Linux-based mobile phone stack.

...yet another episode of the neverending story on VIA and its (lack of?) commitment to open-source. There's an article over at newsforge.com about VIA allegedly encouraging people to violate the GPL with some of their open-source releases. The person behind these claims is someone quite familiar: Luc Verhaegen who was one of the developers of the UniChrome driver project before it disintegrated. Luc has been the most pronounced critic of VIA's approach to open-source development and his comments and rants on a variety of forums and blogs are rather legendary. You can find his personal blog at libv.livejournal.com

[Hmmm... Is this yet another case of hardware vendors not supporting the FOSS community? Book 'em, Dano! We'll sort out the guilty-innocent issues shortly. - dcparris]

Renesas says it will sample in August a new SoC (system on chip) and development board that support Linux and target telematics and in-vehicle systems. The SH7397 "Euclid" SoC is based on a 300MHz, 32-bit SH-4A SuperH processor, and will double performance of the company's current SH7760 "Camelot" telematics processor, the company says.

Jayson Harris was the irritant that helped mold the legal approach now commonly used by Microsoft's crack Internet Safety Enforcement Team. In fact, he's logged two firsts: The Harris case is the first civil case filed by Microsoft related to phishing, and the biggest phishing case in Iowa's history. Microsoft actually calls him the "MSN Billing Phisher." So why the short sentence and puny fine?

The KOffice team today released the first bug-fix release in their 1.5 series. Critical bugs in KSpread, KWord and Krita were fixed, thanks to the helpful input of our users. We also have updated languages packs. Please note that users of Kexi forms are discouraged from upgrading at the moment because of a critical bug discovered too late in the release process to do anything about. We will be releasing 1.5.2 with a fix for this problem within a month. You can read more about it in the press release and the full announcement. A full changelog is also available. Currently, you can download binary packages for Kubuntu and SUSE.

Australia-based Puppy's most redeeming feature is that it has a small footprint yet is full-featured, including all sorts of configuration and application installation wizards.

OAXTEPEC, MEXICO -- The 7th annual Debian Developers Conference (DebConf6) brought close to 300 Debian developers, package maintainers, and other interested parties to Mexico's government-owned Oaxtepec Vacational Center last week. [A long, but very interesting and important article.]

Drupal is a content management system (CMS) built on the PHP and MySQL combination (detailed requirements here). I've been working with the latest version since its release at the beginning of this month. Drupal 4.7 is a significant upgrade that brings major short- and long-term benefits to users and distributors of the system. It brings Drupal back to the cutting edge of CMS development.

Open-source application integration software is getting accolades from end users who previously spent “weeks and weeks of man hours coding integration tools and utilities to process data.”

A senior Microsoft executive told a BBC documentary that people should use commercial software if they're looking for stability.

[Go on, read the article. It's not so tilted as it looks - dcparris]

Founder of some of the most important projects in open source today, VP of Novell by the age of 25, and an all-round cool geek. Tectonic catches up with Nat Friedman, Linux wunderkind.

Lately, OSX, or more specifically its kernel, has had a lot of attention. Benchmarks made by AnandTech have shown that OSX' kernel has some serious performance issues. As a result, some have uttered the idea Apple might replace the kernel of the MacOS with another kernel-- Linux seems, to them, the most viable option. Secondly, there have been speculations that Apple is closing the x86 version of its kernel.

It’s interesting to look at your Webalizer statistics and to see the list of “Search Strings”. This is what people type into search engines and shows how they found your site. Another point is, it gives you hints about how you could improve your site and the service you are offering to your readers.

The KDE e.V.'s first Quarterly Report for 2006 has been published. Those reports are used by the KDE e.V. to report its activities to the public. The highlights in this report include updates from the Working Groups, a report from the last KDE e.V. board meeting and a couple of other updates. The Technical Working Group for example announced a planned technical preview of KDE 4, the Human-Computer Interaction Working Group informs about progress in developing plans for usability, accessibility and artwork for KDE 4. The Marketing Working Group gives updates about the status of the promotional community around KDE 4 and different other aspects regarding marketing-related efforts.

I started this new blog site here because I tend to forget things, especially when these were done in a hurry (like at work, where you often have to do several things at the same time, with a timeline like: “should be finished yesterday”). So to remember how I did things, I started to document them - and because most of what I’m doing today concerning hard- and software, services, and networks, is done with Linux and free and open source tools, I document them here - in the public. This is my 2¢ of giving back.

Altair Engineering Inc. will work closely with Red Hat to ensure that Altair's PBS Professional will continue to be compatible with future Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases.

I've written a number of article about Ubuntu and Debian in the last few weeks, saying that: in principle I should be running Debian, that Ubuntu is too small a team for the size of their customer base and buglist, questioning the size of the fork Ubuntu has made, etc. I decided to see if I could test out any of these assumptions so I grabbed the latest 'testing' bits from Etch and installed it on a 2-year-old Sony VAIO laptop.

Yogi Berra said once, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

It's funny, until someone actually takes that advice literally and tries to go down two conflicting roads at once. For example, take SCO's Reply to Novell's Counterclaims.