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The trouble with Vorbis

From Kuro5hin: "Ogg Vorbis may be the holy grail of patent-free audio compression, but there are some serious issues blocking its path to widespread...

Linux mainframe grandfather: Several companies are proving Linux’s worth

- By Grant Gross - At age 28, Boas Betzler is known at IBM as the "grandfather" of Linux on the mainframe. In mid-1998,...

GNOME Digest, April 24, 2002

GNOME: GNOME Digest for April 24 is out. Packages discussed include orbit-tools 0.1, pygtk-1.99.9, Gabedit 1.1.0, and more. Application =========== orbit-tools 0.1 Description =========== package of command line applications for...

Debian Weekly News – April 24th, 2002

Debian: Debian Weekly News for the week of April 24th is out. Subjects covered include why XFree86 4.2 isn't included in Woody, Hurd, activating...

Red Hat security advisory: sudo, icecast

Red Hat: "Updated sudo packages are available which fix a local root exploit... Global InterSec LLC found an issue with Sudo 1.6.5p2 and earlier...

Mandrake Linux security advisory: sudo

Mandrake: "A problem was discovered by fc, with further research by Global InterSec, in the sudo program with the password prompt parameter (-p). ...

Debian security advisory: sudo

Debian: "fc found a buffer overflow in the variable expansion code used by sudo for its prompt. Since sudo is necessarily installed suid root a local...

Business 2.0: Buying industrial-strength tech on the cheap

Business 2.0: "Five years ago, if you had proposed running some of your company's most critical applications on an operating system originally developed by...

KOffice 1.2beta1 released

Dre writes, "The dot is running a story saying KOffice 1.2beta1 has been released. According to the site, 'The highlights of this release...

Apache 2.0 – Still not a contender?

adequacy.org writes "Fresh on the heels of Microsoft's revealed plans for Windows .NET, the Apache Project has released their own major upgrade of...