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The Much Misunderstood Ubuntu 9.10 Upgrade Poll

Ubuntu — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:32:35 +0100

Gavin Clark at the Register recently reported that only 10% of people upgrading to 9.10 had a satisfactory experience.

GLSA 200911-01 (Normal): horde (and 2

Gentoo — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:54:42 +0100

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Horde.

SimplyMEPIS 8.0.12 Maintenance Release

Mepis — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:19:43 +0100

MEPIS LLC has released SimplyMEPIS 8.0.12, an update to the community edition of MEPIS 8.0.

Apache at 10: You Can't Buy Us

internetnews.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:04:43 +0100

Pioneers of the open source foundation explain the benefits of their software meritocracy.

The Intersection Of Quality And Expectations

Jono Bacon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:16:22 +0100

There has been a little bit o’chatter on the tubes recently regarding quality and our recent release, Ubuntu 9.10.

Near-Final Thunderbird 3 Due Next Week

CNET — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:36:00 +0100

Coming in the next version of Mozilla's e-mail software: easier setup, better search, a tabbed interface, and if all goes to plan, a richer world of add-ons.

Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 Shines Bright

LinuxPlanet — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:24:43 +0100

Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) edition has been around since Ubuntu 8.04, and has taken on some pretty stiff competition of late from Moblin. Inquiring minds want to know which version is better for my netbook? Paul Ferrill pummels UNR in hopes of finding an answer.

ABI's Jeffrey Orr on Rising Linux Netbook Sales

LinuxDevices — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:10:52 +0100

After ABI Research projected that Linux will take a 32 percent share of netbooks in 2009 and overtake Windows in 2013, we spoke with ABI analyst Jeffrey Orr on the findings.

Fedora 10 Security Update: alienarena-data-20091102-1.fc10,alienarena-7.32-1.fc10

Fedora — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:34:12 +0100

alienarena: Buffer overflow by processing specially-crafted UDP reply from game server (ACE)...

Fedora 10 Security Update: kernel-2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10

Fedora — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:33:30 +0100

kernel: fs: pipe.c null pointer dereference

Fedora 11 Security Update: alienarena-data-20091102-1.fc11,alienarena-7.32-1.fc11

Fedora — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:33:28 +0100

alienarena: Buffer overflow by processing specially-crafted UDP reply from game server (ACE)...

Fedora 11 Security Update: kernel-2.6.30.9-96.fc11

Fedora — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:33:26 +0100

kernel: fs: pipe.c null pointer dereference

Checking In on CodePlex

Andy Updegrove — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:58:12 +0100

It’s been more than a month since I last wrote about the CodePlex Foundation, the new open source initiative announced by Microsoft in early September.

Not Tolerating The Intolerant

Jono Bacon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:55:45 +0100

Thanks to my friends over at ZDNet for allowing me to post another guest article on their Between The Lines column.

Verizon unveils Hero-like, $100 Android phone

LinuxDevices — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:50:28 +0100

Verizon Wireless announced its second Android phone, the $100 Droid Eris, which is based closely on the HTC Hero and its Sense UI.

Lesser Known, But Very Helpful Features in OpenOffice.org Writer

Jack Wallen — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:40:00 +0100

Anyone using Linux (or any operating system for that matter) should know about the OpenOffice.org office suite. This suite of tools serve as the open source equivalent to Microsoft Office and does so with ease and full functionality. OpenOffice.org Writer works very similarly to Microsoft Word.

Ubuntu Security Notice 855-1: libhtml-parser-perl vulnerability

Ubuntu — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:30:15 +0100

Mark Martinec discovered that HTML::Parser incorrectly handled strings with incomplete entities.

Ubuntu Security Notice 854-1: GD library vulnerabilities

Ubuntu — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:32:12 +0100

Tomas Hoger discovered that the GD library did not properly handle the number of colors in certain malformed GD images.

Oracle Braced for EU Objection on Sun Deal

Financial Times — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:26:17 +0100

Oracle is braced for a formal objection from Brussels to its planned $7.4bn acquisition of fellow US technology company Sun Microsystems, escalating the company’s legal wrangle with Europe’s competition authorities.

openSUSE DVD/CD cover art: Opinions wanted!

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:36:26 +0100

openSUSE 11.2 is scheduled to be officially released in about a week (give or take a few hours…) and, as usual, we’re gearing up to press a bunch of media for shows and the ambassadors.

Development Release: SliTaz GNU/Linux Cooking 20091104

DistroWatch — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:40:07 +0100

Christophe Lincoln has announced that a new development build of SliTaz GNU/Linux 5.4, a minimalist distribution with Openbox designed for older computers, is ready for testing.

Too Much Netbook For Too Litl?

InformationWeek — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:15:56 +0100

A Boston-based startup named Litl is taking a big risk: they're betting people will go for a netbook that sports a Linux-based OS and focuses on Web-/network-based productivity (Facebook, Twitter, etc.). The risk is in the pricetag: $700...

The Importance of an Open Internet

Brian Proffitt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:45:50 +0100

Being against net neutrality is one of those arguments that on first glance seems reasonable.

Scientific Linux release 5.4 has been released for i386 and x86_64

Scientific Linux — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:40:07 +0100

There are packages that we used to have to add to Scientific Linux, that are now already in Enterprise 5, and so we do not have to add them ourselves.

Mandriva Flashes its Small Aggressive Penguin

The Register — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:39:25 +0100

The end of year race to update product names has begun in earnest, with Mandriva becoming one of the first to launch a product with 2010 in its moniker...

Fedora 12 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks

Phoronix — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:00:21 +0100

Canonical released Ubuntu 9.10 last week, which introduced the Ubuntu Software Center and brought a wide variety of other improvements, while Red Hat is scheduled to release Fedora 12 in two weeks.

eWEEK at 25: Open Source Has Proven a Remarkably Fertile Platform

eWeek — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:35:46 +0100

PC Week's (now eWEEK's) birth year 1984--was a busy one for technology. One platform that began to take shape at that time was focused not on hardware or software but on licensing. Richard Stallman quit his job at MIT to start the GNU project...

SUSE Security Announcement: IBM Java 6 Security Update

SUSE Linux — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:00:07 +0100

 The IBM Java 6 JRE/SDK was updated to Service Release 6, fixing various bugs and security issues.

Court Gets A Torrent-full About Linux

LinuxJournal — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:28:00 +0100

BitTorrent is one of the most contentious technologies available. At least, that is, to the Old Order, those lovely suit-clad corporate types bent on holding technology forever in the days of the — manual — typewriter.

Canonical Matching Creative Commons Donations

Jono Bacon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:06:44 +0100

Here at Canonical we are all big fans of the Creative Commons.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:1550-1: Important: kernel security and bug fix update