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- OLPC and Microsoft
The One Laptop Per Child has finally sent out an official communication on its agreement with Microsoft, which involves the creation of a dual-boot version of the XO laptop. "OLPC is substantially increasing its engineering resources and all software development continues entirely on GNU/Linux. We will continue to work to make Sugar on Linux the best possible platform for education and to invest in our expanding Linux deployments in Peru, Uruguay, Mexico and elsewhere. No OLPC resources are going to porting Sugar to Microsoft Windows..."
- Adobe releases Flash Player 10 beta
Adobe Labs has announced a beta release of Flash Player 10. "Adobe
- New York Stock Exchange Runs Trades On Red Hat Linux (InformationWeek)
InformationWeek examines the use of Red Hat Linux by the New York Stock Exchange. "Linux has been known to be in use at several New York financial services firms, but few have stepped up to the podium to testify on the value of their implementations. As a result of mergers and acquisitions, the New York Stock Exchange has migrated over the last few years from HP-UX to IBM AIX to Sun Solaris to Linux. NYSE Group CIO Steve Rubinow said the conversion to Linux followed the acquisition of the Euronext exchange in 2007. Unlike some trading companies that suggest Linux is running their secondary systems, Rubinow emphasized that Linux is running the NYSE's mission-critical trading systems."
- Thursday Security Updates
Fedora 7 has updated blender (multiple vulnerabilities), libid3tag (infinite loop), libvorbis (multiple vulnerabilities), licq (multiple vulnerabilities), perl-imager (buffer overflow) and rdesktop (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora 8 has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities), blender (multiple vulnerabilities), libvorbis (multiple vulnerabilities), licq (denial of service), rdesktop (multiple vulnerabilities) and libid3tag (infinite loop). Fedora 9 has updated rdesktop (multiple vulnerabilities), kernel (multiple vulnerabilities), clamav (multiple vulnerabilities) and libvorbis (multiple vulnerabilities). Gentoo has updated openoffice.org (multiple vulnerabilities). rPath has updated kernel (multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated openvpn (regression fix for USN-612-3).
- Stable kernel 2.6.25.4
The 2.6.25.4 stable kernel update is available. This one contains a fairly long list of fixes, one of which is security-related.
- Splashtop Linux desktop to appear on every Asus motherboard (geek.com)
geek.com mentions the inclusion of the fast-booting Splashtop distribution on Asus motherboards. "DeviceVM, the makers of Splashtop, just made a big announcement though. Their technology will no longer be restricted to the top-shelf motherboards and will see a much wider release. At first it will be featured on Asus
- Verizon joins open Linux mobile group
CrunchGear reports that Verizon has joined the LiMo Foundation. "Verizon has signed up as the final member on the board of directors of the LiMo Foundation, a group founded by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Samsung, and Vodafone
- LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 15, 2008
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 15, 2008 is available.
- Fedora 9 and the road to KDE4 (Red Hat Magazine)
Red Hat Magazine reviews KDE 4 as seen on Fedora 9. "Those who remember the days of KDE or GNOME 2.0 won
- Security updates for Wednesday
CentOS has updated libvorbis (multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated gforge (temporary file vulnerability) and openssh (openssl vulnerability fallout). Gentoo has updated cdf (buffer overflow) and libid3tag (denial of service). Mandriva has sent out a general advisory warning Mandriva users to be on the lookout for weak keys originating from Debian-based systems. Red Hat has updated libvorbis (RHEL2, RHEL3-5: multiple vulnerabilities). Ubuntu has updated openvpn (openssl vulnerability fallout), ssl-cert (more openssl fallout), and openssh (you guessed it: openssl fallout).
- Distributed bug tracking
While distributed source code management tools are now in widespread use, bug tracking remains a highly centralized task. This article looks at some projects which are trying to change that situation through the creation of distributed bug tracking systems. Click below (subscribers only) for the full text.
- Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge (InformationWeek)
InformationWeek reports on an increase in attacks against SSH servers. "The paper focuses on the vulnerability of Linux systems to brute-force SSH attacks... 'Linux systems face a unique threat of compromise from brute-force attacks against SSH servers that may be running without the knowledge of system owners/operators. Many Linux distributions install the SSH service by default, some without the benefit of an effective firewall.'"
- Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi
Ivan Krstić has a strongly worded essay about OLPC, education, and free software. He has a great deal to say about the history and future of the project that could only come from an insider. "The whole 'we're investing into Sugar, it'll just run on Windows' gambit is sheer nonsense. Nicholas knows quite well that Sugar won't magically become better simply by virtue of running on Windows rather than Linux. In reality, Nicholas wants to ship plain XP desktops. He's told me so. That he might possibly fund a Sugar effort to the side and pay lip service to the notion of its 'availability' as an option to purchasing countries is at best a tepid effort to avert a PR disaster."
- A Talk with Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields
Late last week I had the pleasure of talking with Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields. Our conversation covered a range of Fedora Project topics, including Fedora 9, the latest Fedora release. Click below, subscribers only, to get the FPL view of Fedora.
- Q&A: Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux (ComputerWorld)
Computerworld talks with Ian Murdock at JavaOne. "What do you do at Sun? I see the OpenSolaris project seems to fall onto your plate. Initially, I was working on OpenSolaris and started Project Indiana, which culminated this week [with] the first version of the OpenSolaris binary distribution. These days, I am running the developer and community marketing organization, so I am responsible for marketing Sun's developer tools, the developer programs like Sun Developer Network and Tech Days Events, our open-source projects and communities. [Also, I do marketing for] StarOffice, OpenOffice, Network.com. So basically anything that relates to the developer community in some way, I run the marketing piece of that."
