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Linux News for Aug 29, 2010
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Gnash 0.8.8: A Huge Improvement Over Previous Versions (Aug 29, 2010, 23:03)
O'Reilly Broadcast: "Back in June I wrote about
Adobe dropping support for Flash Player on 64-bit Linux. Since the
existing version of the 64-bit Linux Flash client had a serious
security vulnerability staying with the last release isn't really
an option."
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How to Run Windows, Mac, and Linux Side by Side and Pain-Free with VirtualBox (Aug 29, 2010, 19:03)
Lifehacker: "Running multiple operating systems
side-by-side gives you the chance to test applications, run
platform-specific software, and tons more without ever rebooting.
It's also extremely cool. Here's how to run Windows, Mac, and Linux
simultaneously and pain-free as possible."
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An ancient kernel hole is closed (Aug 29, 2010, 15:03)
LWN.net: "A longstanding bug in the Linux
kernel—quite possibly since the first 2.6 release in
2003—has been fixed by a recent patch, but the nearly
two-month delay between the report and the fix is raising some
eyebrows. It is a local privilege escalation flaw that can be
triggered by malicious X clients forcing the server to overrun its
stack."
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An Overdue Update on Diaspora (Aug 29, 2010, 11:03)
Diaspora: "Since August is nearly over, it is
time for an update and answers to some questions. We have been
coding. We have Diaspora working, we like it, and it will be
open-sourced on September 15th."
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Open-sourcing SETI (Aug 29, 2010, 07:03)
Network World: "The setiQuest project has
released its first open source code in an effort to have anyone
interested help search for intelligent life out there. The source
code for Open SonATA is available on GIT Hub now and covers three
programs:"
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Kontact: How does it compare to the competition? (Aug 29, 2010, 03:03)
Ghacks: "Kontact is the KDE groupware suite
that includes more tools than your standard suite, has a lot of
pluses, and a few minuses. But even with its minuses, Kontact is a
spot-on tool for anyone needing a solid groupware suite to keep
them as organized as possible."
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Windows applications making GRUB 2 unbootable
(Aug 29, 2010, 01:15)
Colin Watson: "If you find that running Windows
makes a GRUB 2-based system unbootable (Debian bug, Ubuntu bug),
then I'd like to hear from you. This is a bug in which some
proprietary Windows-based software overwrites particular sectors in
the gap between the master boot record and the first
partition,"
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