It’s not uncommon to use more than one computer during the course of a week: a Mac at work, a PC at home and a laptop on the road. When people search for applications that will work across all platforms, many look for an open-source solution first, only to discover that apps that work on [...]

In the effort to make my digital life just a bit simpler, I’m considering abandoning yet another tool. This time it’s SageTV.
I’ve enjoyed using it for the last three years. It has quite a few features that the other DVR software packages don’t. Plus an active support community. Plus being user-extensible.
The [...]

I’ve got OpenMeetings installed to the point where that it is able to provide a video feed, from an XP box, to anyone else that connects. I’m having issues with the webcam on the Linux box (its the same make/model as the one on the XP box) so I’m thinking that either the webcam [...]

Linux Kernel ‘pppol2tp_recvmsg()’ Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Linux Kernel DCCP Subsystem Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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I?ve long followed and blogged about the prominence of Linux in supercomputing and the twice-annual Top500 Supercomputer List. In a relatively short time frame, the open source OS has shot to the top of the Top500 list thanks to its free availability, flexibility, stability, scalability and conduciveness for clustering. Over time, the tools and statistics [...]

Hewlett-Packard is bringing container virtualization to its Integrity server line.On July 2, HP will begin selling and supporting Parallels? Virtuozzo virtualization software within its Integrity line of servers that are built around Intel?s Itanium processor and include the company?s massive Superdome systems.While the HP Integrity line is mainly known to support the company?s Unix operating [...]

[security bulletin] HPSBMA02345 SSRT080039 rev.1 - HP System Management Homepage (SMH) for Linux and Windows, Remote Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
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Two of the most popular Linux browsers were unveiled this month after years of development — the open source Firefox 3 and the proprietary Opera 9.5. Opera’s launch a week before Firefox was like any other launch, unlike Firefox’s much publicized world record attempt. But Opera 9.5 is no less revolutionary than Firefox, matching its [...]

Linux kernel developers today began to petition hardware vendors to provide open source modules and drivers. In a statement signed by more than 140 Linux kernel developers, the group said that closed-source Linux kernel modules or drivers were ?detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and the greater Linux ecosystem?.?Such modules negate the openness, stability, flexibility, and [...]

Linux Kernel BER Decoding Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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SPYRUS announced that it will demonstrate its PocketCA complete Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate system for Linux operating systems at the Red Hat Summit 2008. PocketCA is an implementation…
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