A software developer has uncovered a bug in most versions of Linux that could allow untrusted users to gain complete control over the open-source operating system. The null pointer dereference flaw was only fixed in the upcoming 2.6.32 release candidate of the Linux kernel, making virtually all production versions in use at the moment vulnerable.
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La Curacao replaces Netware with Novell SUSE
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La Curacao, a $220 million Hispanic-oriented department store chain, says it has solved its performance problems, boosted reliability and added ample capacity for growth by converting its main transaction and application servers from Novell Netware (a proprietary OS) and Microsoft Windows, respectively, to Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise.
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Android phone sports 8.1-megapixel camera
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Sony Ericsson announced its first Android phone, along with a "UX" user interface targeting social networking. The Xperia X10 offers from 8 to 16GB of flash storage, a four-inch touchscreen, and an 8.1-megapixel camera with face recognition and geo-tagging, plus the usual 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS features.
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Build Your Own Custom Ubuntu Live CD
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You turn on your trusty old Linux box, and things are going well as you pass through the boot loader, until the disk check reveals that your hard drive partition table is corrupt, and you are unable to access your machine. You need a good rescue disk — and the best way to get one is to create your own.
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MIPS32 core optimized for Linux, Android
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MIPS Technologies announced two new MIPS32 cores, including one that's optimized for Linux. Both the M14K core and the M14Kc -- a superset that incorporates Android-ready, Linux/Java microcode -- support MIPS' microMIPS instruction set architecture, enabling 1.5 DMIPS/MHz performance and advanced code compression that can reduce code size by 35 percent, says the company.
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Open Source "Napster" Resurrected After 8-Year Dormancy
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A small group of programmers plans to breathe new life into the Napster-spawned OpenNap protocol that was designed to help dejected music fans share files using similar technology after the official Napster servers blinked off.
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Bright OpenOffice.org Future, ODF News, and Antagonisers Spotted
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A lump of news about OpenOffice.org, ODF adoption and events, and the usual resistance from Microsoft (through partners and ecosystem)
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Canada’s National Bureau of Economic Research: Patents Harm Poor People (and Help Rich People)
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A new report sheds light on the lesser-known impact of patents on society, and sometimes life or death
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Open source needs successful champions
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The open source industry needs profitable champions to demonstrate success, and attract funding and participation in open source, according to Red Hat CEO.
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Jobs go at Novell
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Novell is cutting jobs in various departments and in various countries. The Linux vendor, which has spent recent weeks cutting its UK distributors, will trim between 100 and 130 jobs from its total headcount of 3,900.
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Linux torrents get a mention in landmark court case
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The Federal Court of Australia has heard how peer-to-peer software, BitTorrent, is used to distribute Linux-based operating systems.
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10,000 hours: Track your practice with gnuplot and wordpress
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Here's how to set up a system with pretty graphs to track your practice time and display it at your Wordpress site! I'm using mine to track the time I spend each day on four different categories of practice, and also show my progress toward the goal of 10,000 hours of total practice.
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New Problems at Novell: Media Backlash, Layoffs, Pension Takeaways
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Novell announces more layoffs, 401K pensions suspended as more business continues to be lost
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Why isn't Linux perfect?
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I am the IT admin of a local school. Our school runs a mix of Windows, Apple and Linux machines. I have learned that there is no such thing as a Perfect OS nor is there any such thing as "perfect" software.
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Review: Parted Magic 4.5
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Every so often there comes a distribution that sets itself apart from all others in ways far beyond mention. Parted Magic is one of those. It is *the* defacto distribution for all hard drive maintenance. And the more it grows, the better it gets.
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