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Updated libxml2 packages that fix an overflow when parsing remote resources are now available.

Cray Inc announced yesterday that it would pony up just under $15m in cash and another $100m in stock to acquire a little-known but impressive maker of high performance computing (HPC) systems called OctigaBay.

Paul Staretz discovered a flaw in return value checking in the mremap() function in the Linux kernel, versions 2.4.24 and previous that could allow a local user to obtain root privileges.

Novell recently announced that it is closing its Certified Directory Engineer (CDE) certification on April 1...although Novell's increasing focus on Linux is a factor in the cancellation of the CDE, it's not as simple as the CLE replacing the CDE.

Updated libxml2 packages are available to fix an overflow when parsing the URI for remote resources.

IBM widened its lead in the worldwide server market in 2003 at the expense of Sun Microsystems, making particular gains in the Unix server market, new figures show.

REAL Software Wednesday released REALbasic 5.5 Professional Edition, which enables developers to compile Visual Basic source code under Linux.

Mepis Linux is a liveCD, debian based distro, with some additional features, which makes it an excellent introduction to debian. A recent review provided a good overview of the background and basis of Mepis, my review aims to focus more on the day to day use for a desktop user.

Computer experts will tell you that Linux software is unbeatable at tasks like scientific supercomputing or corporate number-crunching. But offer to take them on in a rousing round of Empire Earth or some other popular computer game, and watch their faces fall.

AML's M7140 is an inexpensive programmable stationary terminal for fixed station, wired, or wireless data collection applications. The M7140 runs embedded Linux, and targets work-in-process tracking, shop floor control, and factory automation.

A Canadian software company has produced a driver that will let Linux users make the most of Intel Corp.'s Centrino wireless chip set.

Thunderbird 0.5 is pretty much the same as Thunderbird 0.1 + the new theme + some improvements. Nevertheless, despite the problems, I still consider to be an app with some great potential and continue to use it. [Thanks to MozillaZine for the link.]

Sebastian Krahmer found that the mformat program, when installed suid root, can create any file with 0666 permissions as root, and that it also does not drop privileges when reading local configuration files. The updated packages remove the suid bit from mformat.

Sendmail, Inc., which claims that more than 60% of the world's email traffic runs on its messaging servers, announced Monday that it is developing and promoting sender authentication technologies that are designed to prevent email address spoofing, forging and email fraud. The open source technology will follow Sendmail's plug-in framework.

The National Conference on Open Source Software (OSS) was held by MAIT at the Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumba i to discuss the use of OSS in different networking systems.

MontaVista Software and Access Technologies, today announced they have teamed up to provide a complete Linux-based development platform and embedded browser solution for TI's OMAP platform (OMAP 1510 Innovator). ACCESS will demonstrate the joint solution at 3GSM World Congress 2004 (Hall 4 stand L29).

Engineers who were once limited to developing motion control applications on the Windows platform now can use the Motion Hardware Driver Development Kit to create embedded motion systems in varied platforms such as Linux, VxWorks and RTX.

The OpenPKG project releases version 2.0 of the unique cross-platform software packaging facility.

HP won't adapt any of its own operating systems to run on Opteron because Linux and Windows will be the primary software for Opteron servers. But HP continues to adapt its operating systems to run on Itanium chips.

For the past year, there has been a slow and steady stream of news events regarding XFree86, X11, or new X server implementations. To those not paying close attention (and even those who are), the meaning of some of these events may not be clear. In this brief article, I attempt to share my impression on what the changes mean for users of free software on the desktop. It appears that XFree86 is in some turmoil, and it may leave some to infer that free desktop systems will suffer.