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September 1999

September 1999

CRN - Intermec Technologies Corp. believes it has beaten its competitors to the punch. Inprise To Show First EJB/CORBA App Server Next Week Inprise Corp. is expected to show next week what it claims is the first EJB-based (Enterprise Java Beans

Windows Chosen Over Linux for Cluster Project
TechNewsWorld - "If you look at benchmarks on similar server platforms, Linux or Sun's Solaris operating system will run significantly better than Windows," said Phillip Fayers, an IT manager working on an IBM-based brain research cluster at Cardiff University, who

Mobile Vendors Ready Linux Versions of Phones
Baseline - Four large mobile phone vendors, together with two major wireless operators, will create an open Linux implementation for mobile phones. Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Samsung, and Vodafone say their Linux implementation will provide a global

December 2002
CRN - With the exception of second-day musing over the fallout of the Sun-Microsoft Java ruling, the time period between Christmas and New Year's Eve is what journalists commonly refer to as a slow news week, at least in the high-tech world. But some real

August 2001
CRN - Linux creator Linus Torvalds told developers Wednesday the industry should not fear that Microsoft will tax Internet transactions using the Passport technology in .Net's Hailstorm platform. Sun Microsystems ' new Forte for Java Release 3 is now

GoblinX Mini Category: SOFTPEDIA NEWS :: Linux
Softpedia - GoblinX is a Live CD based on the Slackware distribution. GoblinX Live CD is directed towards those users who appreciate quality applications and a workspace that is both practical and beautiful; it contains some of the most used and praised

Patents News - Patents, Industry News
ZDNet - Google Checkout preparing to launch Garett Rogers Nielsen to track digital consumer with 'Anytime Anywhere' media measurement Donna Bogatin HP's super cool computer fans Dan Farber How to address Bluetooth's braindeath: Market it better David Berlind

StillSecure Strata Guard Is Something For Nothing
CRN - Positioned as a product for entry-level needs, StillSecure's Strata Guard Free sports many of the same features offered by its higher-end commercial brethren. Strata Guard Free offers several key features that make it an ideal security product for

IT consolidation market to grow at 6.5% a year
ZDNet Blogs - IT consolidation market is expected to grow 6.5% from 2004 to 2009, from $18.1 bln to $24.7 bln, outpacing growth of the overall IT market, IDC found . Infrastructure software for consolidation is expected to grow 13.1% - more than twice the rate of

May 2002

May 2002

CRN - One of IBM 's biggest solution providers, Mainline Information Systems , this week signed a deal with SuSE to roll out a comprehensive package of products and programs for SuSE Linux on IBM mainframes. As Red Hat solidifies its position as the de

Nielsen to gauge TV viewing on Web, mobile devices
Infoworld - Nielsen also set a firm date of 2011 for the end of paper diaries still used for collecting local ratings data in the smallest markets during "sweeps." The scope of Wednesday's announcement stunned many in the media industry, who had for years told

HP Offers New Software to Manage Linux on Blades
TechNewsWorld - The HP Control Tower in combination with HP Systems Insight Manager uses familiar open source tools, the company noted, resulting in simplified lifecycle management of blade servers running Linux. Making the Case for Enterprise Mobility : Wireless

Ray Ozzie's illustrious IT career takes another turn
Infoworld - Ozzie, 50, created IBM Corp.'s Lotus Notes and is widely regarded as a pioneer in how computers can be used for collaborative work. Microsoft's plan is for him to work "side by side" until 2008 with company founder and Chairman Bill Gates, also 50

'Treasure of info' found in raid
Gulf Today - BAGHDAD: Iraq's national security adviser said on Thursday a "huge treasure" of documents and computer records was seized after the raid on terror leader Abu Musab Al Zarqawi's hideout, giving the Iraqi government the upper hand in its fight against

Novell Feedback and the BSA
Network World Fusion - Discuss Small Business Tech Notes and other remote access topics. Let me try to link previous criticism of Novell to our current investigation of the BSA (Bully Software Alliance). Think I can do it? Reader Milan from New Zealand wrote me a nice note

Novell Unmasks Bandit ID Effort
eWeek - Novell publicly launched its open-source identity management project on June 12, aiming to help businesses pull together their various network and applications authentication systems. Dubbed Bandit, the effort is meant to help companies integrate

Linux dev kit targets remote, unattended apps

Linux dev kit targets remote, unattended apps

ITworld.com, MA - 1 hour ago... I can set up everything from a home network to a multiple domain forest with UNIX, Linux, and Windows Server all working together. ...

Microsoft still unlocking its security identity
SearchSecurity.com, MA - 8 hours ago... We have a great business model with all these filters. Microsoft security has improved to the point where it's not a security decision anymore [against Linux]. ...

Interview with Kevin Carmony
OSDir - 6 hours agoEven if every person in the world today who is running Linux full time on their desktop or laptop computer suddenly switched to Linspire or Freespire, it wouldn ...

Motorola joins handset vendors, carriers in global Linux OS effort
RCRNews.com, CO - 24 minutes agoand a handful of handset vendors, along with two major network operators, have agreed to establish a global Linux-based software platform for mobile devices ...

DNS: The Bind Leading the Bind
Linux Journal - 23 hours ago... own kind. Aside from hiding beneath hundreds of millions of people's awareness, some people know that DNS seems to like Linux. In ...

Obsidian, Stratus partner to build Linux servers
Tectonic, South Africa - 16 hours agoObsidian Systems and Stratus Technologies have partnered to launch Linux-based high availability servers into the South African market. ...

AMD nets Novell certification for AMD64Processor-based systems
Antara, Indonesia - 10 hours ago... Novell YES Certification. demonstrates the highest level of compatibility and interoperability with Novell products, including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. ...

JFS boosts Russian 686 embedded Linux reliability
Linux News - 4 hours agoPetersburg, Russia, is offering a high-reliability, small-footprint embedded Linux implementation that supports several 668-based CompuLab SBCs (single-board ...

Parsix GNU/Linux 0.80

Parsix GNU/Linux 0.80 has been released: "After 3 months of development and testing, a brand new version of Parsix GNU/Linux i686-optimized desktop is available. Major improvements are better system performance, new documentation, updated software packages, better hardware support and Parsix's own apt repository that enables users to get further updates." The new Parsix is based on the current Debian unstable tree, with kernel 2.6.16.17 (plus many patches including CK's performance patches and extra WLAN drivers), X.Org 7.0.20, GNOME 2.14.2, OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 and new desktop theme. Read the full release announcement for more details.

KNOPPIX LINUX 5.0.1

Klaus Knopper has announced the availability of the first public release of KNOPPIX 5 live CD and DVD: "At CeBIT 2006, a preview of Knoppix 5 was introduced, which has now been updated with the new kernel and udev hotplug management. What's new: Linux kernel 2.6.17 (rc); X.Org Version 7.0; detection of onboard IDE raid controllers and raid disk components; udev + hwsetup for automatic hardware detection; KDE 3.5.2, GNOME 2.12 from Debian unstable; OpenOffice.org 2.0.2; transparent write access for NTFS partitions; new Knoppix installer, now also with the possibility to update existing installations of Knoppix...." Read the full release announcement on the project's home page.

Distribution Release: KNOPPIX 4.0.2 Live CD/DVD

A bug fix version of KNOPPIX 4.0 has been released and is currently propagating to download mirrors around the world. From the changelog: "V4.0.2-2005-09-23 (bug fix release). Updated Unionfs to 20050921-1507 with stability patches; fixed 'noeject' and 'noprompt' boot options; fixed 'xdepth=' boot option; fixed permissions of /usr/bin/cdrecord*; fixed translation error of 'Festplatte' in English edition; fixed OpenOffice.org siesta on loading old documents; fixed ATP8* SCSI controller recognition; removed glibc dependency of sysvinit; added 'units' converter; updated read-write libntfs CVS version; security updates for xserver-xfree86, xlibs, mozilla-firefox...." While the download mirrors are getting updated, you can obtain the new KNOPPIX here at LinuxOnline.biz.

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Critical flaw hits Red Hat and Novell Linux

Critical flaw hits Red Hat and Novell Linux
by Antony Savvas
Tuesday 24 January 2006

Red Hat and Novell have released patches for a critical security hole in their Linux distributions, which stems from a vulnerability in the KDE desktop environment.

KDE is a user interface product used with several versions of Unix and Linux.

The KDE hole was discovered last week and given a “critical” rating...
... by the French Security Incident Response Team (FrSIRT).

The flaw affects the Javascript engine used in various parts of KDE, including the Konqueror web browser.

The flaw can allow a remote attacker to launch a buffer overflow attack and run arbitrary code on the user’s machine.

Users can disable Javascript in the Konqueror browser as a workaround, but some websites may not display properly as a result, so installing a patch is preferable.

The problem affects version 4 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES and WS, and also Version 4 of Red Hat Desktop. In addition, the 10.0, 9.3, 9.2 and 9.1 versions of Novell SuSE Linux are affected.

KDE has also released patches for the flaw, which affects KDE 3.2.0 up to and including KDE 3.5.0.

Distribution Release: Damn Small Linux 2.1

Damn Small Linux 2.1 has been released. From the changelog: "New SATA boot time support; new Icontool GUI controls many icon features; new docked.lua - Lua dock apps - mount and dMix replace mount.app and wmix; mew mount.lua - Lua GUI disk mount tool; new dMix - Lua GUI sound mixer; mew ucitool.lua - Lua GUI lists UCI mounts & allows easy deinstall of UCIs; new Torsmo replaces asmem, wmcpuload, & wmnet to better support both window managers; new Ted replaces Flwriter; new .xpdfrc - to support direct printing from Xpdf; new links - Lua links download wrapper; new added Thai keyboard support...."

Distribution Release: Nonux 2.2

A new version of Nonux, a Dutch Slackware-based distribution with Dropline GNOME designed for office use, has been released. Some of the more important enhancements include: upgrade to Linux kernel 2.6.14.5; upgrade to GNOME 2.12.2; upgrade to OpenOffice.org 2.0.1; upgrade to Evolution 2.4.2.1; integration of email notification applet into task bar; improvements to hard disk installation script; updates to boot loader to detect and configure system for dual booting with Windows. More details are available in the release announcement on the project's home page (in Dutch).

Distribution Release: Ultima Linux LiveCD

The developers of Ultima Linux have released a live CD edition of their Slackware-based distribution: "The Ultima Linux LiveCD is a complete Ultima desktop system squeezed into a 544MB CD. It contains everything that you've come to expect from Ultima Linux, including: a complete, modern KDE desktop with Mozilla Firefox web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client, OpenOffice.org office suite, AbiWord Personal word processor, The GIMP image manipulation program, XMMS digital audio player, complete networking support, effortless to use - just stick in the CD and reboot!"

Distribution Release: tinysofa classic server 2.0 Update 3

tinysofa classic server, a server-oriented distribution originally forked from Trustix Secure Linux, has received a new update: "tinysofa classic server 2.0 Update 3 (Ceara) is now generally available. This release focuses on bug fixes, integrates all released security fixes, and updates various packages to the more recent upstream releases. 'Ceara' features: the Linux 2.6.13 kernel, grsecurity support, APT and SmartPM for advanced package management, the next generation PHP 5 environment (5.0.4), OpenSSH 4.2, high availability features such as DRBD (0.7.14) and UCARP (1.1), the latest development tools and languages (GCC 3.4.3, Python 2.4), and much more." The full release announcement can be found on the project's home page.

Distribution Release: T2 2.1.1

T2, a source-based distribution originally forked from ROCK Linux, has been updated to version 2.1.1: "The T2 development team is proud to present 'Lychee Punch', the first maintenance release (2.1.1) for the stable 2.1 branch. This release includes bug fixes, security fixes, updates and even some improvement to the SDE. Most notable are: Kaffe 1.1.6, KDE 3.4.3, XFce 4.2.3.2, WINE 0.9.1, Mono 1.1.10, Eclipse 3.1.1, Xpdf 3.01pl1, KOffice 1.4.2, Samba 3.0.21a, OpenOffice.org 2.0.0.1, MPlayer 1.0pre7try2...."

Distribution Release: STX Linux 1.0

The SOHO edition of VectorLinux 5.1 has been released: "The Vector development team is proud to announce the final release of our SOHO 5.1 product. This version of Vector is intended for the small office / home office user with a complete desktop experience featuring the KDE 3.4.2 desktop and XFce 4 as a light alternative. With Slackware at the core, this release features the 2.6.13 kernel, OpenOffice.org 2.0, Firefox 1.5, Scribus, the GIMP, MPlayer, multimedia plugins, printer and scanner support and everything a complete desktop or work station should have. We feature unique tools like the 'vasm' administrative menu, vl-hot (for auto-mounting external hard drives, digital cameras and pendrives), vxconfig for almost 100% GUI X configuration and a bootsplash screen never seen before." Read the full release announcement for all the glory details.

Distribution Release: VectorLinux 5.1 SOHO

The SOHO edition of VectorLinux 5.1 has been released: "The Vector development team is proud to announce the final release of our SOHO 5.1 product. This version of Vector is intended for the small office / home office user with a complete desktop experience featuring the KDE 3.4.2 desktop and XFce 4 as a light alternative. With Slackware at the core, this release features the 2.6.13 kernel, OpenOffice.org 2.0, Firefox 1.5, Scribus, the GIMP, MPlayer, multimedia plugins, printer and scanner support and everything a complete desktop or work station should have. We feature unique tools like the 'vasm' administrative menu, vl-hot (for auto-mounting external hard drives, digital cameras and pendrives), vxconfig for almost 100% GUI X configuration and a bootsplash screen never seen before." Read the full release announcement for all the glory details.

Distribution Release: GEOLivre Linux 5.0

GEOLivre Linux is a Kurumin and Debian-based Brazilian distribution with a collection of specialist software for geographical work. Version 5.0 was released on Saturday. Among the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software included in the distribution are: UMN MapServer, PostGIS, Open 3D GIS, Generic Mapping Tools (GMT), GRASS (geospatial data management and analysis), uDig (a geospacial application and platform), JUMP Unified Mapping Platform, Terraview, Spring (a remote sensing image processing system), Quantum GIS, Thuban (a multiplatform geographic data viewer), and QCad. A more detailed description of these software packages can be found in the release announcement (in Portuguese).

Distribution Release: grml 0.6

grml is a bootable CD based on Knoppix and Debian with a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of texttools and system administrators. New versions of the distribution's two editions -- grml 0.6 (code name "Winterschlafpn") and grml 0.2-small (code name "Cory") -- were released over the weekend, bringing 99 new packages and many new features to the table. More details about the new packages and features are available in the two release announcements (grml 0.6 and grml 0.2-small), as well as on the project's web site.