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  4. Novell breakup and sale imminent, says report

    in Everything Linux

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    Commercial operating system maker Novell is close to selling itself off after breaking into two bits, according to the New York Post.

     

    Citing unnamed sources, the Post says a "strategic buyer" will shell out cash to acquire the SUSE Linux business that Novell paid $210m for in November 2003.

     

    Another private equity firm is rumored to be taking the rest of the company, including the NetWare operating system, Novell's security and access products, and its systems management tools.

     

    More at The Register.

  7. GPL scores historic court compliance victory

    in Everything Linux

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    The Software Freedom Conservancy has secured $90,000 in damages for willful infringement of GPLv2, plus nearly $50,000 in costs from Westinghouse Digital Electronics over its illegal distribution of the Unix utility BusyBox. The company has also been ordered to stop shipping product loaded with BusyBox.

     

    It's the first time a US court has awarded an injunction ordering a GPL violator to permanently stop distribution of out-of-compliance GPL'd software.

     

    More at The Register.

  9. Pulseaudio Removal Petition

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    In French, we have a saying: “jeter le bébé avec l’eau du bainâ€, which translates to “to throw out the baby along with the bath's waterâ€.

    It means: In your hurry to dispose of what you don't want to keep, you carelessly loose something you had better kept.

    Yves: we have that saying in English, too: to throw the baby out with the bath water, to be exact... :)

  15. Damn Vulnerable Linux

    in Everything Linux

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    Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL) is everything a good Linux distribution isn't. Its developers have spent hours stuffing it with broken, ill-configured, outdated, and exploitable software that makes it vulnerable to attacks. DVL isn't built to run on your desktop - it's a learning tool for security students.

     

    DVL is a live CD available as a 1.8 GB ISO. It contains older, easily breakable versions of Apache, MySQL, PHP, and FTP and SSH daemons, as well as several tools available to help you compile, debug, and break applications running on these services, including GCC, GDB, NASM, strace, ELF Shell, DDD, LDasm, LIDa, and more.

     

    Go to www.damnvulnerablelinux.org for more information.

  16. Refresh of the Mozilla Security Bug Bounty Program

    in Everything Linux

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    For new bugs reported starting July 1st, 2010, Mozilla are changing their bounty payment from $500 to $3,000 US per eligible security bug.

     

    They have also clarified the products covered under the bounty to better reflect the threats they are focused upon. They still include Firefox and Thunderbird obviously, but they have also added Firefox Mobile and any Mozilla services that those products rely upon for safe operation. These are products they have traditionally paid bounties for in a discretionary basis anyway, but they wanted to make that explicit. Release and beta versions of those products are eligible.

     

    More on the Mozilla security blog.

  19. www.mcnlive.info

    in Announcements and News

    Posted

    When chris:b ceased maintaining MCNLive, she relinquished control of www.mcnlive.org. The site was subsequently reinstated by person or persons unknown, but not maintained, so is now redundant.

     

    Please ignore all references to the old site: for the latest news, go to www.mcnlive.info.

     

    As Chris has many posts on the forum, I have taken the liberty of amending the link in her signature - she has disabled her pm and email account.

  20. Mandriva 2010.1 Release Notes

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Check out the Release Notes for Mandriva 2010 Spring.

     

    The following topics are covered:


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    • General information about new features and major changes.
    • Changes to the Mandriva installer and upgrade instructions for users of previous releases.
    • Changes to supported hardware and drivers.
    • Changes regarding software packages.
    • Other technical information for experienced users.

  21. Mandriva 2010.1 Errata

    in Installing Mandriva

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    The Errata for Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring has information on known problems and, where available, how to fix, avoid or work around them.

     

    1 Installation issues

    1.1 The Free DVD (and free-dual CD) installer can't be started in text mode

    1.2 Mandriva-seed

     

    2 Kernel issues

     

    3 Hardware issues

    3.1 Poor 2D performance with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 Hybrid X2

    3.2 X startup issue on Ones with nvidia proprietary driver

    3.3 No 3D acceleration for laptops equipped with more than one graphic chipset (such as Intel coupled with nVidia)

    3.4 Broken Volume Control with USB Speakers (jumps from very faint to very loud)

    3.5 Ath5k-driver for Atheros AR5001 Wireless Adapter doesn't work properly in 2.6.33.7-desktop-2mnb-kernel.

     

    4 Upgrade issues

     

    5 Software issues

    5.1 MandrivaUpdate crashes when reviewing packages info

    5.2 Reboot / Shutdown locked

    5.3 Mozilla Firefox

    5.3.1 Firefox doesn't change the colour of visited links

    5.3.2 Firefox sometimes marks all typed words as misspelled even though they are spelled correctly

    5.3.3 In Firefox flash content doesn't play smoothly or doesn't work at all

    5.3.3.1 If you're running x86_64 Firefox

    5.3.4 Under KDE4, the buttons in message dialogues in Firefox-3.6.x are laid out differently

    5.4 Opening hyperlinks from some GTK-based applications doesn't work after updating Firefox to a new version

    5.5 Encrypted partitions support

    5.5.1 Resize

    5.5.2 /boot

    5.6 Mounting CIFS/SMB (Windows, Samba ...etc) shares no longer possible as non-root

    5.7 SCIM does not start

    5.8 Flash videos don't play sound in x86_64 installation

    5.9 Postfix crashes with nss_wins installed

    5.10 stellarium does not display icons and fonts

    5.11 Evolution and keyring problems

     

    [updated 20 January 2011]

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