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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. Category: Linux

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...