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Kernel security upgrades
Author: JT Smith
Linux Weekly News recommends users upgrade their kernels, citing three locally-exploitable security glitches and providing patches to remove the problem.
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Raymond’s Open Source manifesto — revised for the new millennium
Author: JT Smith
It's been called "the most important book of the
software frontier of the 1990s"--"the definitive work on the open
source evolution"--"a landmark piece of...
Verisign to shed NSI registrar?
Author: JT Smith
From ZDNet News: "With a government deadline looming, competitors and investors will be watching closely to see how VeriSign structures a potential...
What are you gonna do? ‘Make’ me?
Author: JT Smith
Anonymous Reader writes "Make has always been described to me as if one were baking a cake. You have a prescribed...
Conectiva advisory: proftpd
Author: JT Smith
A memory leak and a USER command issue may lead to an environment that facilities DoS attacks from within proftpd, a popular...
IBM sets Unix milestone
Author: JT Smith
IDG reports on an upcoming announcement from IBM. The company is about to ship its 3,000th S80 server, making it the number...
Napster parasites: Leeching onto your personal info
Author: JT Smith
From Salon.com: "Hard-drive snooping is the latest in
...
Security update to man-db
Author: JT Smith
LWN.net has this: "Styx has reported that the program `man' mistakenly passes malicious
strings (i.e. containing format characters) through routines that were
not meant...
Security update to Netscape
Author: JT Smith
From LWN.net: "A buffer overflow exists in Netscape's HTML parsing code. By using
specially designed code, a remote website...
SuSE CTO Hohndel: SuSE prepared to be worldwide market leader
Author: JT Smith
LinuxPlanet interviews SuSE CTO Dirk Hohndel. "SuSE's position in the Linux market is one of contrasts. In the European, Middle East, and...