Linux Game Publishing has announced a Linux port of "Sacred Gold," an action role-playing game first published for Windows three years ago. The U.K.-based game publisher plans to ship the title in August of this year, priced at 27 GBP
LinuxSecurity.com: Daniel P. Berrange discovered that the hypervisor's para-virtualized framebuffer (PVFB) backend failed to validate the format of messages serving to update the contents of the framebuffer. This could allow a malicious user to cause a denial of service, or
LinuxSecurity.com: A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker
LinuxSecurity.com: Luciano Bello discovered that the random number generator in Debian's openssl package is predictable. This is caused by an incorrect Debian-specific change to the openssl package (CVE-2008-0166). As a result, cryptographic key material may be guessable.
LinuxSecurity.com: Luciano Bello discovered that the random number generator in Debian's openssl package is predictable. This is caused by an incorrect Debian-specific change to the openssl package (CVE-2008-0166). As a result, cryptographic key material may be guessable.
The Fedora project today released a new version of its completely free and redistributable Linux distribution. Showcasing lots of next-generation Red Hat features, Fedora 9 also boasts new features of its own aimed at making the distribution appeal more to
Hey, i need to login 400 users, and cause it would take quite some time loggin them in one by one by hand. I want to ask is there a script to auto login users over ssh/ or another protocol??I
Published at LXer:This is an advertisment for Vista on the Novell website. I especially like the line "Migrating to Vista? We can help you make the leap" alongside a picture of man in suit and tie...
is there any method to delete nth character in a text file? I tried searching sed helps but without any result on this. vi might help, but it works in an interactive method, which prevents from...
Hi All,I have Freescale's iMX21ADS board with linux 2.4.20 based BSP running on it. Freescale does not provide a 2.6 kernel based BSP for the hardware. So I am (trying :) ) porting the 2.6.10...
I know Lenny is still testing and only at beta stage. But today I brought up aptitude to check and see if there were any packages I didn't have already installed that I wanted. And I did an update....
I installed opensolaris, and I'm trying to figure out where they installed the boot loader. The MBR or on the root parition of my drive. Since they didn't give me an option, I'm assuming the MBR? ...
Published at LXer:All communities develop rituals over time. One of the enduring linux-kernel rituals is the regular heated discussion on development processes and kernel quality. To an outside...
Hi, I have installed Puppy 4 onto my ageing Toshiba Laptop, successfully I believe! However being completely new to the dark side that is Linux, I am not sure how to get said laptop to boot. I have...
Could someone help on this please:I have a text file which contains a value, for example k=a1111, k=a2222, k=a3333 etc. But there is many other garbage between these. What I would like to do it...
Hey fedora 9 was just released today. I want to upgrade my fedora 8 to fedora 9.. Please tell me that if i upgrade it would my installed packages still be installed and running in fedora 9?? Also is...
Hey I have NTFS partitioned location which I use intermediately between linux and windows.. I want to install a software (MATLAB) on an NTFS partition as there is not enough space on my ext 3...
Hi,I am configuring an application on a new SUN Ultra 10 Workstation. Actually, this computer is very old but has been kept in a store. I found Solaris 2.6 on it and I am currently trying to connect...
I tried Ubuntu 7, wasn't thrilled.I am running now Ubuntu 8 and again not thrilled--seems to be slow in fact.I am looking for a workstation for LAMP development. What I want is a simple desktop...
