Manufacturing management company moves to Linux
Hines Corp. is a management company that oversees a conglomerate of manufacturers in the Midwest and Texas, and a distributorship in New York. It has a diverse IT infrastructure that requires…
Linux 2.6.19.2 Released
We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.19.2 kernel. There's a long list of fixes, not the least of which is the data corruption fix from Linus and some security fixes:
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CrossOver 6 for Linux
CrossOver Linux allows you to install many popular Windows productivity applications, plugins and games in Linux, without needing a Microsoft Operating System license.
Version 6 added…
Why Microsoft will offer an Open Source OS
You can accuse Microsoft of many things, but not making lots of money isn't one of them. If Linux ever got to the point where it was costing the company serious money, what's to stop MS from…
Debian Linux 3.0 is officially dead
The old stable release Debian GNU/Linux (codename 'woody') has been archived. The official source for this distribution is the dedicated archive host called archive.debian.org. It is no longer…
Head of IBM Linux Development to speak at SELinux Symposium
Daniel Frye, Vice President, IBM Open Systems Development, will be a keynote speaker for the third annual Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) Symposium (www.selinux-symposium.org), scheduled for…
Execute commands by whistling
Use Linux or Microsoft Windows, the open source sndpeek program, and a simple Perl script to read specific sequences of tonal events -- literally whistling, humming, or singing at your computer…
India’s Very Own Linux
Pushing the drive to promote open source software in India, Dayanidhi Maran, minister of communications & information technology, has released BOSS Linux. Developed by C-DAC, the Linux…
Invalidating The Linux Buffer Cache
When you write data, it doesn't necessarily get written to disk right then. The kernel maintains caches of many things, and disk data is something where a lot of work is done to keep everything…
Some unpleasant X.org vulnerabilities
iDefense Lab security researchers discovered that the expressions computing the parameters for ALLOCATE_LOCAL() in those functions are using client-provided value in an expression that is subject…