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Infrastructure Linux News for Feb 08, 2002
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FOSDEM.org Interviews: FreeNet, SmoothWall, & Free Software and the European Commission (Feb 08, 2002, 18:26)
As the Free and Open Source Software Developers' Meeting
approaches, three more featured developers are interviewed: Ian
Clarke on FreeNet, Richard Morrell on Smoothwall, and Phillippe
Aigrain on "Open Source/Free Software and the European
Commission."
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Mandrake Linux Security Update Advisory: groff (Feb 08, 2002, 16:49)
"zen-parse discovered an exploitable buffer overflow in groff's
preprocessor. If groff is invoked using the LPRng printing system,
an attacker can gain rights as the "lp" user. Likewise, this may be
remotely exploitable if lpd is running and remotely accessible and
the attacker knows the name of the printer and it's spool
file."
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Linux Gazette: Simple Package Management With Stow
(Feb 08, 2002, 16:01)
"What if you are developing your own software and don't want to
create RPMs, or Debian dpkg each time you pause at a version? What
if you don't trust that software package written by a 14 year old
in that far away country with an unstable government? In short,
what if you are heeding Obi-Wan Kenobe's advice, and using the
source? How do you make it easy to rip out those configuration
files, man pages, binaries, and libraries that you may want to
replace in the future?"
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LinuxDevices.com: Sun exec: "This is a war against Microsoft" (Feb 08, 2002, 09:55)
"Asked whether he was referring to IBM and HP with that comment,
Mehra replied "yes -- we will ship our own Linux Distribution
optimized for our general purpose servers and server appliances,
rather than simply making some Linux vendor's standard distribution
available to the customers of our systems."
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LinuxPR: Graphics Muse Tools CD brings extra power to Red Hat GIMP users.
(Feb 08, 2002, 07:54)
"In response to the growing demand for off the shelf products
for desktop Linux systems, the Graphics Muse is now offering The
Graphics Muse Tools CD, an easy to install package of plug-ins,
scripts, and data for use with the latest version of GIMP."
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