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Several buffer overflows were recently discovered in tcpdump, a program used for inspecting network traffic. By sending specially constructed packets across the wire a malicious remote attacker could cause tcpdump to crash or potentially run arbitrary code as the user under which tcpdump was being run.

At the same time, MySQL use increased by 30% among the same group -- impressive, even counting that MySQL started from a smaller base.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) says it'll hold a press conference to, "discuss the strengths and successes of the GNU General Public License (GPL)" and to

Apache serves more Web sites than IIS these days, and other software (such as BIND and sendmail) is much more ubiquitous on the Internet than anything

Its straightforward administration is managed with only two configuration files, eliminating much of the complexity that sendmail is known for, and it employs

On Friday, I wrote about heading down to Linux World Expo. Since then I've become convinced that this event has not been widely advertised.

County's government operations have around 15,000 users, and the county's IT officials would love nothing more than to cut licensing costs by adopting a Linux

South Australia's Geoffrey D. Bennett has won the winner of the 2004 IBM HackFest held at Australia's national Linux conference, linux.conf.au, and will

Like many software companies, VERITAS Software (Quote, Chart) has queued up a news announcement surrounding the Linux operating system in time for the

The SCO Intellectual Property (IP) License permits the use of SCO's intellectual property, in binary form only, as contained in Linux distributions.

The next release of the Linux kernel will be named after an Australian animal following a frenzied bidding war at Linux.conf.au 2004 in Adelaide.

Paul Starzetz discovered a flaw in bounds checking in mremap() in the Linux kernel (present in version 2.4.x and 2.6.x) which may allow a local attacker to gain root privileges. Version 2.2 is not affected by this bug.

Mozilla.org late last week released the final version of Mozilla 1.6, its suite of open-source Web tools that includes a browser and e-mail client.

MySQL AB has steered towards the MySQL developer community this week an alpha development release of its latest open source database software version for it to

is reporting significant speed and capacity increases for its PD Optimizer tool suite on 64-bit Opteron and Athlon processors running Linux - even compared to

BakBone Software, a global provider of data protection software, has unveiled Linux Advantage, a worldwide initiative aimed to support Linux distributors.

By Angus Kidman, iTnews. Despite the relentless march of Linux, major vendors believe commercial Unix releases aren't ready for the scrapheap yet. centre of the

Some of the world's biggest companies could shortly face lawsuits over their use of the Linux computer operating system, the executive at the centre of the

Examples include apt and dpkg (used by the Debian Project), rpm (the Redhat Package Manager) and Portage (part of Gentoo Linux).

My hope is to make the community aware of some of the outstanding issues with running MandrakeMove and not to discredit the countless hours Mandrake employees