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A configuration vulnerability has been discovered in CloudStack that could allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary CloudStack API calls, such as deleting all VMs being managed by CloudStack. John Kinsella of the Apache CloudStack PPMC announced the vulnerability on Sunday. The issue does have a workaround that can be applied immediately.

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This morning the New York Times published a front-page story on software patents. My wife got to the paper before I did, and as I got coffee she told me the story would make me happy. She also said it was too long for a normal busy person to read in its entirety. It is long, but I am happy to see that the closest thing we have to a national newspaper of record is getting the word out about the dysfunction of the patent system.

It's a topic that has been brought up before, but there's still a number of users and developers interested in seeing a "Software Center" / "App Store" for Fedora Linux...

If you want a stable Debian based distro capable of running modern software and a very good forum, that the developer actually answers some forum questions and asks for your ideas, give Solus a try. I don't think you will be disappointed.

Now that Ohio Linux Fest is in the books, we get to set our sights on Linux/FOSS events for next year. Starting in February, we get to turn it up to 11 -- as in SCALE 11X, which is being held on the Presidents Day weekend at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel. Registration? Open. Call for Papers? Deadline is Dec. 10. Keynote? One of two chosen so far. Are you ready?

Open Recall is a space on The H for those things that are too small to package as news but are worth the linkage. This edition looks at a JVM in CoffeeScript, OpenStreetMaps on Craigslist, Red Hat crop circles, UEFI Secure Boot for smaller distros, HP hiring new WebOS employees and a new release of the PortableApps.com Platform.

Want to use Cinnamon on Arch Linux? Then you might be interested in the latest Arch spin-off, Cinnarch

It's been a momentous few weeks for FOSS fans, not least because LibreOffice -- one of the most popular exemplars of free and open source software today -- celebrated its second anniversary late last month. Indeed, with 325 active committers over the last 12 months, LibreOffice is now the third-largest free software project listed on Ohloh focused on the development of a desktop application.

At long last, we’re on our way to a single Linux kernel for all ARM smartphones, tablets, and other devices.

Learning some basic methods to navigate and customize the launcher can make it an efficient tool that is used to complete daily tasks. With several icons located in the launcher, reordering the applications may reduce your time searching for your desired program to execute.

The concept of a standard is something of a paradox: competitors agree that they will all do one thing the same way - something that's ordinarily anathema to government regulators. But that's OK, because by doing so the resulting standard unleashes their ability to innovate in orders of magnitude more ways.

Samsung has contributed patches to Linux for the F2FS filesystem. F2FS, short for "Flash-Friendly File System", is designed for NAND flash-memory-based devices such as SSD, eMMC and SD cards which have different storage characteristics from hard disks and other rotating media. Implemented as a log structured filesystem, F2FS includes capabilities such as detecting the internal geometry or flash memory management scheme and adjusting its parameters for configuring on-disk layout and selecting allocation and cleaning algorithms.

U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park and Director of New Media for the White House Macon Phillips held a roundtable at North Carolina Central University's Turner School of Law last week to discuss open government projects spearheaded by the new Presidential Innovation Fellows program.

Andrew Back takes a look at the sysmoBTS, a open source software based small form factor GSM Base Transceiver Station (BTS), that can provide a standalone mobile telephone network that is useful for research, development and testing purposes

The second DRM pull request was submitted and subsequently pulled for the Linux 3.7 kernel...

As promised we will improve further the NoteTaking app in this tutorial. We will change the look of the app to have EditText instead of TextView to display notes on main screen. Also clicking on note will open the note for editing and save it as a new note.

A new installation image for Arch Linux is now available that sees the distribution's default boot process switch from the previous System V implementation to systemd for booting the live system. Because of the change, initscripts are no longer available on the live system. However, the developers note that they are still installed by default, but this "is likely to change in the near future".

Scratch is a free educational programming language for kids, available in 50 different languages and runs on just about any modern computer: Linux, Macintosh, or Windows. The new guide book, Super Scratch Programming Adventure!, was authored by The LEAD Project (Learning through Engineering, Art, and Design), in Hong Kong, to make Scratch more accessible to children around the world by teaching them how to use it.

Cinnarch is a 32 and 64-bit distribution that offers a completely Arch based and compatible system with Cinnamon pre-installed. Apart from the popular desktop environment, it offers every day use applications like the Chromium browser, LibreOffice suite, Adobe Flash Player etc. The installer is not there yet as it is a text installer, but I am sure this won’t a problem for the majority of you.