| Microsoft's Worst Enemy: Themselves Posted Tuesday, December 31, 2002 @ 5:36 PM by mayhem |
 Saw this story posted on OSnews this morning. "Microsoft's biggest threat isn't Linux, OpenOffice, or any piece of software at all--its themselves. Over the last eighteen months two distinctly different Microsoft cultures have emerged, often in opposition to each other." You can get the full article at Sudhian Media. (Source: Slashdot) |
| Red Hat 8: A Glimpse Of The Desktop Future Posted Tuesday, December 31, 2002 @ 12:14 PM by mayhem |
 Anonymous writes "Does Red Hat 8.0 give us hints about the future of Linux on the desktop? Competition and choice among GUI's is wonderful, but a single distribution should have a single desktop that is as integrated and consistent as possible. The duplicated efforts do have a place and are not a waste, but they should not divide the limited resources of a for-profit firm that should be making the best interface that it can. I hope Red Hat continues with this shift and follows it to its logical conclusion." |
| Linux Kernel 2.5.53 Now Available For Download Posted Sunday, December 29, 2002 @ 1:59 AM by mayhem |
 You can now download the 2.5.53 Linux Kernel from here, or any of the www.kernel.org mirrors here, full changelog information is available here. |
| PHP 4.3.0 Released Posted Saturday, December 28, 2002 @ 10:06 AM by mayhem |
 PHP.Net has just reported the release of PHP 4.3.0. The update sports a unified method of handling files and sockets, a bundled GD library (for working with images), and finalizes PHP's command line interface. For other information, check out the ChangeLog. (Source: Slashdot) |
| Spam Blocking Engine for OpenBSD Posted Saturday, December 21, 2002 @ 2:37 PM by mayhem |
 In a post over at OpenBSD Journal, Theo states that he has written a spam blocker that works with pf and Spews. It looks darn cool :) (Source: Slashdot) |
| Linux Kernel 2.2.24-rc2 Now Available For Download Posted Friday, December 20, 2002 @ 7:24 PM by mayhem |
| You can now download the 2.2.24-rc2 Linux Kernel from here, or any of the www.kernel.org mirrors here. |
| Linux Kernel 2.4.21-pre2 Now Available For Download Posted Friday, December 20, 2002 @ 1:28 AM by mayhem |
| You can now download the 2.4.21-pre2 Linux Kernel from here, or any of the www.kernel.org mirrors here, full changelog information is available here. |
| Red Hat Network Gets A Face Lift Posted Thursday, December 19, 2002 @ 1:33 AM by mayhem |
| For those of you who use the Red Hat Network, to keep up-to-date with bug fixes and security releases, you will have probably noticed by now that they have updated the layout and graphics of the site. The new layout is alot smoother and user friendly, which is great to see, although it will take some getting used to if your are familar with the old system. To check it out, click here. |
| RC5-72 Clients Available! Posted Wednesday, December 18, 2002 @ 1:05 AM by mayhem |
 I don't know how we missed it but Distributed.net has started the new RC5-72 project. "The RC5-72 project is now officially up and running, as of 03-Dec-2002! You will need to download a new client in order to participate. Our FAQ-O-matic has been updated with the beginnings of a new RC5-72 section."Linuxathome.net has already set to the task of the new RC5-72 and as such the RC5 Team page has been updated, so come on people lets get crunching. |
| Linux Kernel 2.2.24-rc1 Now Available For Download Posted Tuesday, December 17, 2002 @ 8:25 PM by mayhem |
| You can now download the 2.2.24-rc1 Linux Kernel from here, or any of the www.kernel.org mirrors here. |
| Aussie Uni Dumps Dual-Boot In Favor of Linux Posted Tuesday, December 17, 2002 @ 7:32 PM by mayhem |
| News.com.au is reporting that the University of Wollongong have dumped their previously dual-boot installations in favour of booting Linux only. Among other reasons, staff enjoy the ease with which they can 'lock down' first year students, stopping them messing with the systems prior to learning anything about them. (Source: Slashdot) |
| Debian 3.0r1 Released Posted Monday, December 16, 2002 @ 10:56 PM by mayhem |
 Anonymous writes "Debian 3.0r1 has been released. See the release announcement and the security patches and bugfixes added in 3.0r1 here. cdrdao and gcdmaster have been removed in 3.0r1 for licenceing reasons. Download it from one of the Debian mirrors." |
| Linux Kernel 2.5.52 Now Available For Download Posted Monday, December 16, 2002 @ 7:30 PM by mayhem |
| You can now download the 2.5.52 Linux Kernel from here, or any of the www.kernel.org mirrors here, full changelog information is available here. |
| MySQL 3.23.54a Released And Mysql.com Redesigned Posted Monday, December 16, 2002 @ 8:17 AM by mayhem |
 Anonymous writes "MySQL 3.23.54a has been released, get your copy here. As well as 3.23.54a been released, mysql.com has been redesigned, check out the new design." |
| Mozilla 1.3 Alpha Released Posted Sunday, December 15, 2002 @ 2:07 AM by mayhem |
 Anonymous writes "Mozilla 1.3 alpha has been released. Read the release notes here, get your copy here." |
| Ex-Microsofter Rick Belluzzo Prefers Linux Posted Saturday, December 14, 2002 @ 2:04 PM by mayhem |
| I'm sure you all remember Belluzzo being pushed out of Microsoft earlier this year. ComputerWorld has a short, but interesting interview with him where he talks about why his new employer, Quantum uses Linux in their appliances." From reading the interview, Belluzzo seems to be pretty amicable to whatever will get the job done, and in this case, it's Linux. (Source: Slashdot) |
| FreeBSD 5.0RC1 Now Available Posted Saturday, December 14, 2002 @ 1:57 PM by mayhem |
 Anonymous writes "FreeBSD 5.0RC1 is now available. More info here. Download the ISOs here." |
| Rob Gunnewiek's ProFTPD Vulnerability Is Old News Posted Saturday, December 14, 2002 @ 1:55 PM by mayhem |
| Anonymous writes "Rob Gunnewiek recently made a post to Vulnwatch saying that that have found a DoS vulnerability in ProFTPD. The hole that they were talking about was fixed in March 2001. Despite the change, the resources of some systems could still be exhausted by very large, deep directory structures. More info here. Please ignore this vulnerability that Rob Gunnewiek claims to have found as it is old news." |
| KDE 3.1 Release Delayed Posted Saturday, December 14, 2002 @ 1:54 PM by mayhem |
 Anonymous writes "Release of KDE 3.1 which was initialy proposed for 12/12/02 has been delayed until next month. The delay is because there is been a security audit been done to KDE 3.1 CVS (more info on security audit here) due to some security holes been found in KDE. The code that was ment for 3.1 final has been released as 3.1RC5." |
| Cobalt Linux 6.0 SHP Remote Root Exploit Posted Saturday, December 14, 2002 @ 1:54 PM by mayhem |
| Anonymous writes "There is now a remote root exploit for Cobalt Linux 6.0 (the OS used on the popular Cobalt RaQ 4 Linux server appliances). Interestingly the hole lies in the security hardening package. More info here, to fix the hole install this pkg. Cobalt RaQ 3s running Cobalt Linux 6.0 (RaQ 4 OS) are also vulnerable." |
| Security Holes In MySQL Before 3.23.54 Posted Friday, December 13, 2002 @ 7:30 PM by mayhem |
| Anonymous writes "There are multiple security holes in MySQL versions before the recently released 3.23.54. More information here." |
| Kernel 2.4 And 2.5 Benchmarked Posted Friday, December 13, 2002 @ 7:29 PM by mayhem |
| Anonymous writes "here you can get benchmarks comparing the speed of Kernel 2.4 and 2.5. There are also some other benchmarks, such as the disk access one here." |
| MySQL 3.23.54 released Posted Friday, December 13, 2002 @ 7:28 PM by mayhem |
| Anonymous writes "MySQL 3.23.54 has been released. Get a copy here (or here for MySQL-Max users). Note: The RPMs on the mysql.com site cannot be used to upgrade a Red Hat-supplied MySQL." |
| PHP 4.3.0RC3 Released Posted Thursday, December 12, 2002 @ 6:52 PM by mayhem |
| Anonymous writes "PHP 4.3.0RC3 has been released, it is going to be the last release before 4.3.0 final. Get your copy here." |
| Apache 2.1 Development Started Posted Wednesday, December 11, 2002 @ 10:07 PM by mayhem |
 Anonymous writes "According to here, Development of version 2.1 of Apache (the most common Linux webserver) has started. You can get a copy of 2.1-dev by checking out a copy of Apache CVS HEAD." |
| AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Review Posted Wednesday, December 11, 2002 @ 9:40 PM by mayhem |
 Our latest review takes us into the world of CPU's with AMD's latest release, the Athlon XP 2600+ Socket A Processor. If you would like to see it put through its paces and find out how it scored you can read our review here. |
| Linux-Powered PVR/Satellite Machine Posted Wednesday, December 11, 2002 @ 8:49 PM by mayhem |
| After reading this story, I thought this submit would be appropriate. A German company called Dream-Multimedia-TV has come up with a schweet custom box targeted for the PVR/Satellite markets. How about a machine with a 250Mhz IBM PowerPC, 2 SmartCard readers, one CompactFlash slot, UDMA66 IDE, MPEG2 support with MPEG4 (DivX) support on the way, Ethernet, LCD display, SPDIF out, yada yada yada (zipped User's Manual). Oh, and it is built specifically to run Linux. Available right now. Commence hacking! (Source: Slashdot) |
| Linux Kernel 2.4.21-pre1 Now Available For Download Posted Wednesday, December 11, 2002 @ 8:37 PM by mayhem |
| You can now download the 2.4.21-pre1 Linux Kernel from here, or any of the www.kernel.org mirrors here, full changelog information is available here. |
| Ask Slashdot: Getting Started In Linux Posted Tuesday, December 10, 2002 @ 11:42 PM by mayhem |
| In previous posts, I've asked for the Slashdot community to help me identify good books and websites for developers and I thought the response was really useful. This time, I'd like to ask you all for your recommendations for great Linux beginner books and also what you think is the best way of showing off Linux on TV. Read on for more info ... (Source: Slashdot) |
| OpenBSD SMP In The Works Posted Tuesday, December 10, 2002 @ 11:40 PM by mayhem |
| Four students at the University of Waterloo are working to add SMP support to OpenBSD as part of the Spinlocks project. More information is available in a story at the OpenBSD Journal's site. They expect to have an initial working MP kernel in January. (Source: Slashdot) |
| Linux Kernel 2.5.51 Now Available For Download Posted Tuesday, December 10, 2002 @ 11:38 PM by mayhem |
| You can now download the 2.5.51 Linux Kernel from here, or any of the www.kernel.org mirrors here, full changelog information is available here. |
| Judge Set To Rule on Windows Trademark Validity Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 @ 12:10 AM by mayhem |
 SAN DIEGO – December 3, 2002 - Lindows.com, Inc. announced today that it has submitted its final legal papers in support of its pending Motion for Summary Judgment on Genericness, challenging the validity of Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) trademark. Now that both Lindows.com, Inc. and the Microsoft Corporation have completed their filings, the United States District Court in Seattle can address whether "windows" is a valid trademark. |
| New ShaoLin Aptus Editions Fit for Your Needs on Linux Desktop Posted Wednesday, December 4, 2002 @ 12:09 AM by mayhem |
| ShaoLin Microsystems Limited, the leading of Linux systems and solutions developer, today released three fully updated new editions of ShaoLin Aptus, the simplified Linux workstation deployment and management solutions. They included ShaoLin Aptus 2.0 Small Business edition, Professional edition and School edition, which all are built upon the \"Enterprise Evolution Award\" winning product, ShaoLin Aptus 2.0. These ShaoLin Aptus packages contained the optimized features and functions which fit for all different size of organizations and provided customers the flexible selections based on their needs now. |
| Telstra Goes *nix Posted Sunday, December 1, 2002 @ 11:57 PM by mayhem |
 Telstra has revealed plans to shift the telco’s back-office systems to the Linux operating system “wherever possible”. And where Linux cannot scale to cope with the company’s gargantuan applications –Telstra plans to shift to a Unix base or more specifically, the shift will be to the Sun Solaris flavour of Unix. (Source: ZGeek) |
| Linux Kernel 2.2.23 Now Available For Download Posted Sunday, December 1, 2002 @ 11:50 PM by mayhem |
| You can now download the 2.2.23 Linux Kernel from here, or any of the www.kernel.org mirrors here. |
| Linux Kernel 2.0.39 Now Available For Download Posted Sunday, December 1, 2002 @ 11:49 PM by mayhem |
| You can now download the 2.0.39 Linux Kernel from here, or any of the www.kernel.org mirrors here. |