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A memory leak in mod_ssl allows a remote denial of service attack against an SSL-enabled server via plain HTTP requests. Another flaw was found when arbitrary client-supplied strings can be written to the error log, allowing the exploit of certain terminal emulators. A third flaw exists with the mod_disk_cache module.

Wind River will integrate third-party real-time debug and analysis tools with Workbench, its Eclipse-based development suite for embedded Linux and VxWorks (formerly, "Wind Power IDE 2.0). ScopeTools, from Real-Time Innovations (RTI) will be the "first significant tools" integrated with Workbench when it arrives later this Spring, according to Wind River.

Dr. Larry Augustin was present at a moment in history of sorts—the genesis of the term "open source" in Mountain View, Calif., on Feb. 3, 1998. That was when a small group of Silicon Valley software folks (which also included Eric Raymond and Christine Peterson) sat down to decide that there needed to be an actual name for what this new and uncharted genre represented. So he owns a deep perspective on open source. And last week, he shared some of that perspective at the first Open Source Business Conference here by outlining his eight simple rules for open-source business strategy.

Hewlett-Packard Co. and software maker Novell Inc. will sell personal computers worldwide loaded with the Linux operating system, which competes with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows. Novell's SUSE Linux operating system will be distributed on Hewlett-Packard's desktop and notebook PCs aimed at business users in North America followed by Europe and Asia, according to a statement from the two companies. Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard will also provide global support, training and consulting on Linux, the statement said.

The objective and intended application of General Public Licences (GPLs) are well known and succinctly stated. Code licensed under GPLs can be copied, passed on and passed around, improved and amended by anyone who wishes. The intended legal obligation is that any changes and amendments must be done under the terms of the existing license: it must be done under the same terms as the licensee received it. In context of "free software" it must be "free" not in terms of "free of consideration" but "free" in terms of being unrestricted in terms of use.

Inspired by the release of Nmap 3.5, the latest version of the award-winning network security tool, I've been exploring network security issues for a couple of weeks now. Nmap's major skill is port scanning -- learning which ports on a machine are "open" and what applications are using them. Sound network security planning dictates that you take a look at your network machines to see what the bad guys can see from outside.

There are many available scripting languages that support web services. PHP is one such language, with a powerful arsenal of open source functions and tools.

...It’s called Linux and not only is it also very good, it is essentially free, growing in popularity at an unprecedented rate and starting to get the big boys worried! Linux’s reputation for stability, security and immunity to viruses prompts a lot of people to ask if it is an alternative to Windows for the average PC user. I reluctantly have to say no, not just yet.

The challenges in front of Novell's partner community include skills development and the ability to recognize and exploit new opportunities, as well as the need to understand the culture that the Linux community is bringing to the enterprise environment space.

Mandrake 10 has it, SUSE's rolling it out in 9.1, Gentoo has had a "test" version with it since last year, and now we'll probably see almost every commercial distribution move to 2.6.x within the next month or two because of competitive pressure. This is not in line with the basic "it's ready when it's ready" dictum that is given as the reason open source software is often technically superior to proprietary competitors.

In this interview we learn how the System Configuration Collector (SCC) project began, how the software works, why Siem chose to make it open source, and information on future developments.

Parts 1 – 6 of this series describe a service domain that represents a collection of comparable or related Web services through a common services entry point. In this article, we discuss how to keep up with the information that is available from the service domain. Why should you and why shouldn't you care about the information? We introduce several ways of using the information and discuss some approaches for optimizing its management.

Corporate jets fly him to a rock-star welcome from thousands of laptop-toting admirers, and, at age 34, he already has earned his place as a technology demigod. For Linus Torvalds it has been a long, strange road since 1991, when, as a computer-science student and erstwhile hacker at the University of Helsinki, everything changed -- though he didn't have a clue at the time it had.

What's available in Corels' WordPerfect 8 Linux and how can you get it? Since late last year, Corel quietly has been offering a WordPerfect 8 Linux program on its eBay Corel Store site. I found out about this only when a Corel WP8/Linux newsgroupie reported finding a curious comment about WP8 while searching the Corel support site for some information.

SAB Gateway is a versatile WLAN access controller implemented in Perl and requires only a low-performance linux computer to run, which also makes it embeddable into small Internet access devices. It delivers easy-to-use broadband access at the wireless hotspot without requiring the end-user to install any client-side software. The SAB Gateway is from March 2004 onwards released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) on SourceForge.net.

Scott McNealy used the occasion of the 2004 FOSE conference at the Washington DC Convention Center to lay to rest once and for all any notion that Sun is willing to loosen its grasp on Java in any way.

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a number of vulnerabilities in emil, a filter for converting Internet mail messages.

When Fool Jeff Fischer analyzed Linux provider Red Hat in November, he clearly showed why it was too risky at $13.01 a share. It opened at $21.56 this morning. Is it still too risky?

In one of the first non-Microsoft-funded total-cost-of-ownership studies by a major market-research firm, Windows still comes on strong. On the heels of several Microsoft-sponsored studies evaluating the total cost of ownership (TCO) of Windows vs. Linux, The Yankee Group has performed its own independent research on the same topic. And the findings are somewhat similar: Linux provides smaller companies with customized vertical applications or who have no legacy networks with better TCO than Windows.

A USB-connected and -powered data acquisition box with GPL-licensed Linux drivers and firmware, developed at the University of Stirling, UK, is being marketed through the Institute for Neuronal Computational Intelligence and Technology (INCITE), a club that helps university researchers commercialize their inventions.