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Last week we wrote about a 0-day exploit with cPanel. Now that all the cPanel servers have auto-updated, and patched the vulnerability, they have released additional info on the security update. They actually fixed 2 major security issues. Both issues were labeled as "important", which seems to be one of the highest, if not the high classification, and includes among other things remote code execution exploits, which thankfully were not the type of these 2 exploits.

Media Explorer is a media center originally target for MeeGo, but also is the first real native GNOME 3 multimedia box powered by Clutter and Mx. It started as an internal project inside the Intel’s Open Source Technology Center and released open in April 21, 2011.

Hello again fellow GNOMErs,

this is my second update on my Summer of Code project. As planned in the previous report, I spent the past two weeks implementing notification integration in the lock screen, and this is the result:

When sending over the Intel Ivy Bridge kit back in April, Intel also included an engineering sample of a PCI Express x1 WiFi adapter that is part of their "Desktop Intel WiFi - 2012" platform. Does this Intel 802.11n WLAN adapter work as well under Linux as their open-source graphics driver?

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Basic drag and drop support enabled for the Places Panel and bookmark synchronization in Dolphin Multiple improvements for drawing in Calligra; fullscreen mode in Kexi; configuration dialog added in Words Work on backup/restore in KDE-PIM read more

The US Navy has signed off on a $27,883,883 contract from military contractor Raytheon to install Linux ground control software for its fleet of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drones.

The latest work by David Airlie for improving the X.Org infrastructure to handle modern GPU features (e.g. multi-GPUs, Optimus-like capabilities, etc) comes in the form of a proposed RandR protocol update...

Unlike virt-manager, virt-install is a command line tool that allows you to create KVM guests on a headless server. You may ask yourself: "But I can use vmbuilder to do this, why do I need virt-install?" The difference between virt-install and vmbuilder is that vmbuilder is for creating Ubuntu-based guests, whereas virt-install lets you install all kinds of operating systems (e.g. Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD) and distributions in a guest, just like virt-manager. This article shows how you can use it on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS KVM server.

The first milestone release of Ubuntu 12.10 has been made available for testing and sees several applications, such as the installer, ported to Python 3 as the developers plan to only include Python 3 with the desktop images of Ubuntu

It's time for another development snapshot of Wine, but this bi-weekly release does carry several features worth noting...

The developers have improved translations for the more than 55 languages of the desktop environment. Several bugs in KDE's browser and window manager have also been fixed

Plus: the defunct 'Kinetic' server strategy for Itanium-Xeon hybrids The Oracle and Hewlett-Packard lawsuit over the fate of Oracle's software support for Itanium processors, and therefore HP's HP-UX Unix variant, is under way in the Santa Clara County courts. New HP CEO Meg Whitman is making the rounds in the press and making her case to HP customers and partners at the Discover 2012 shindig in Las Vegas this week – and so there was lots of talk about the past plans and current plans for HP's Integrity and Superdome lines of servers.…

Ubuntu developers are looking at enabling support for Intel SNA acceleration within the open-source graphics driver for the Ubuntu 12.10 release...

For any Phoronix readers that would like to discuss Linux, open-source, benchmarking, and other matters -- whether it be the topics themselves, constructive criticism, or anything else -- a meet-up is being planned for next week on 15 June in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts...

Keith Packard has set out his plans for releasing X.Org Server 1.13 this September. There's also some interesting plans expressed by David Airlie for what this update could potentially provide for Linux desktop users...

Open Recall is for those things that are too small to be news but are worth the linkage. Open Recall collates the interesting stories that didn't quite make the cut

The latest open-source Radeon Linux driver code for supporting the Radeon X1000 (R500) series hardware has basically reached a point of competitiveness with the legacy Catalyst Linux driver that once supported this hardware. In some cases the open-source Gallium3D driver is now faster than what Catalyst once ran at while in other select OpenGL workloads there is still a proprietary imbalance.

by activate squid3 as Transparent Proxy you no longer need to configure all the machines on your network to connect to Squid proxy server manually. All traffic will be routed to the Squid listening port automatically and your Ubuntu Server will act as routers

Visual voicemail functionality is the visual element in a voicemail application that allows text to be transcribed and displayed on the phone -- or more simply, message headers, or envelopes, are displayed textually in a list. Options often include push to email and SMS. It's been around in various forms since Apple's iPhone kick-started smartphone user interfaces into the 21st century.

The Wine development release 1.5.6 is now available.