LinuxSecurity.com: Gnome-settings-daemon was not respecting correctly user settings when disabling the background completely. This bug has been sfixed, improvement have been made in the time needed to display background when nautilus is used by the system, additional bugfixes and translations
The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit held on April 8-10 in Austin, Texas, may have been invitation only, but fortunately the LF has posted videos for the rest of us. The videos include keynotes from Red Hat and Sun/MYSQL, and a
In his keynote at the annual LinuxTag 2008 developer conference, Ian Murdock, vice president for Developer and Community Marketing at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA), will discuss the increasing role communities play in the software industry, how technologies and the companies
Hobo founders announce launch of non-profit Hobo Tech Foundation to accelerate the development and promotion of the Hobo open source development toolkit for Ruby on Rails (PRWeb May 29, 2008) Read the full story at http://ww1.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb982744.htm
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but no one has ever thought about how much an animation could be worth If you really want to examine it yourself, you can try to work with screencasts.
LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that libxslt, an XSLT processing runtime library, could be coerced into executing arbitrary code via a buffer overflow when an XSL style sheet file with a long XSLT "transformation match" condition triggered a large number of
LinuxSecurity.com: Testing using the Codenomicon TLS test suite discovered a flaw in the handling of server name extension data in OpenSSL 0.9.8f and OpenSSL 0.9.8g. If OpenSSL has been compiled using the non-default TLS server name extensions, a remote attacker
LinuxSecurity.com: New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix a security issue: "Specifically crafted SMB responses can result in a heap overflow in the Samba client code. Because the server process,
LinuxSecurity.com: Researchers at Secunia have flagged a "highly critical" vulnerability in Samba, the widely deployed open-source software for networked file sharing and printing. According to an advisory from Secunia, the vulnerability affects Samba versions 3.0.28a and 3.0.29 and can be
Linux.com: "It seemed like such a great idea. Linux is moving from edge and departmental servers to the data center, so why not offer Linux data center automation, complete with virtualization Linux lifecycle management...?"
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to continue along on our series of posts dealing with porting code between the bash shell, Perl and awk...."
Linux Magazine: "Frustrated by Vim? Confused about why some swear by it but you can't figure out how make simple edits? Cream can take the edge off Vim's learning curve..."
LinuxLinks: "After careful deliberation, we have whittled down the recommendations to a list of 42 more highly compelling Linux games, trying not to focus unduly on any one particular type of computer game genre..."
