Kroah-Hartman Attacks Canonical
Sep 19, 2008Greg Kroah-Hartman's keynote address at the Linux Plumbers Convention 2008 was officially about the Linux Ecosystem, but started as a direct attack on Ubuntu developer Canonical. He claims that the company contributes next to nothing to kernel development.
more »Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition
Sep 16, 2008Ed Schaefer reviews the newest edition of Hacking: The Art of Exploitation.
more »OpenMapi: Free Libraries For Microsoft's Mail-Interface
Sep 16, 2008Several groupware developers have come together to work on Project OpenMapi, an open source API, based on Microsoft's Mapi.
more »Simplexo Open Source Software Searches Enterprise Databases
Sep 15, 2008British company Simplexo now offers an open source search engine by the same name, targeted for enterprises. It promises cross-enterprise data searches in a mouse click.
more »Kenai: Sun sets up its own community website
Sep 14, 2008The Sun enterprise established a website, Kenai, which will host its own Open Source project code.
more »Linux Foundation Hires Developer for Kernel.org
Sep 12, 2008Linux kernel developer John "Warthog9" Hawley assumes the full time role of kernel.org web administrator for the Linux Foundation (LF).
more »X.Org 7.4 Includes New Functions
Sep 10, 2008With a development time of at least a year, X.Org will be released today, delayed by almost six months. Developers want to free themselves from dependencies in future versions.
more »Web Application with C++ and FastCGI
Sep 10, 2008The free library Fastcgi++ Version 1.0, which enables the programming of web applications in C++ language, is now available.
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New Linux Flaw Lets Attackers Escape VMs
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