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Novell has insisted it will not "mess up" its move into open source, and will let its acquisitions Ximian and SuSe Linux lead the way.

Patrik Hornik discovered a vulnerability in Slocate versions up to and including 2.7 where a carefully crafted database could overflow a heap-based buffer. A local user could exploit this vulnerability to gain "slocate" group privileges and then read the entire slocate database. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2003-0848 to this issue.

Nukes on JBoss is a Java-based version of the 'Nuke' family of open-source content management systems originally written in PHP.

Sun has offered IBM the benefit of its "experience" if Big Blue decides it wants to implement a wholesale move to the Linux desktop.

"In a press conference held today at LinuxWorld 2004 in New York, members of the old X consortium, some members of the disbanded Xfree86 core developer group, and Havoc Pennington of freedesktop.org announced that X.org and xFree86 have essentially merged, and that the reformed group is working together to bring 'not just more eye candy but new functionality' to the X Window System for Linux and Unix."

The increasingly acrimonious battle for ownership of Linux intensified yesterday when SCO Group attacked Novell with a 'slander of title' lawsuit.

From February 11-13, the LINUX Asia 2004 event hopes to demonstrate "the power and benefits of [GNU]Linux and FLOSS to decision makers".

For example, we think Mozilla is a much superior product to IE. We'd rather invest in making Mozilla better than getting IE to run on Linux.

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official part of the distribution. Perens feels the biggest challenge to open source going forward is software patents. In the US, 50

NEW YORK--Red Hat, the leading seller of the Linux operating system, plans an expansion into China, potentially including a partnership with China's Red Flag

Armonk, New York-based IBM, which is planning to invest $50 million in Novell to bolster the use of Linux, said the certification would help the SuSE version

on a project that might be of interest to other Advogato users: CIA, a system for tracking commit messages (and eventually other things) from any open source true, robust and secure enough. Linux desktops are about to explode.".

I did not attend the LDAP talk as promised. But I am heading from here (the media centre) over to the PostgreSQL BOF as soon as I leave.

NEW YORK--Intel likely will take a two-phase approach to providing software that Linux needs to take advantage of the processor maker's Centrino chips, an

Open Source Victoria claims SCO is violating the Trade Practices Act and has updated its complaint against the company with the Australian Competition and

Open Source software - available widely through the Internet - has the potential to provide our nation's enemies or potential enemies with computing

Today the subject is the "January effect." Looking at the actual total years' results since 1950, it appears if January is positive for the S&P, then the next year is anywhere from +7% to +45% (54 years). The exceptions have been 2001 and 1966, when both years were down years, even though the January of each year was up. On the other hand, if January has been negative, then for the most part, the entire year has also been negative. In 20 years, there have been only two exceptions, with 1982 and 1968 being positive years overall.

A highlight of every LinuxWorld is the Golden Penguin Bowl, a trivia contest that pits a team of Nerds against a team of Geeks. This time around, the outcome was the revenge of the Nerds.

Though it is a tad late to the party, Sun Microsystems is slowly but surely making up for lost time by positioning itself closer to Linux and the open source community in general. The latest indication is the announcement the Santa Clara, Calif.-based firm made Thursday at LinuxWorld, when Sun introduced a new Java.net community for Linux developers with expanded support for Java-based development tools on both the Solaris and Windows platforms.