LinuxSecurity.com: Multiple buffer overflows in yaSSL, which is used in MySQL, allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code (CVE-2008-0226) or cause a denial of service via a special Hello packet (CVE-2008-0227). Sergei Golubchik found that MySQL did not properly validate
LinuxSecurity.com: A recent security assessment of an application by Ounce Labs has resulted in the discovery of two vulnerabilities that can affect Java Web applications that use the Spring Framework. Spring has been downloaded more than 5 million times to
This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature: Guest Review: Sabayon Linux 3.5News: Mandriva's netbook OS, Flaw in Package Management, Ubuntu's Community QA, Linus InterviewReleased last week: CentOS 5.2 Live CD, BeleniX 0.7.1, BLAG Linux And GNU 90000Upcoming releases: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1,
HowtoForge: "I decided to update and add extra information on a tutorial I found online by Babaraleem to further assist Postfix newbie's. I experienced a difficult time following up on an out of date howto, when setting up my own
Club Mandriva: "Lately it's hard to avoid the buzz about netbooks - the small, cheap laptop systems that were popularized by the Asus Eee PC (which, of course, Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring supports very well). Many in the community have
KDE.news: "The KOffice team announces the availability of the ninth alpha release of KOffice 2.0. With KDE4 becoming more stable by the week, KOffice development is picking up at a fast pace and developers who previously had trouble keeping up
Simple-Talk: "Linus Torvalds is remarkable, not only for being the technical genius who wrote Linux, but for then being able to inspire and lead an enormous team of people to devote their free time to work on the operating system
Computerworld: "VMware's managing director for Australia and New Zealand said Windows is already being replaced by virtual appliances running on Linux. In ten-years, there will be no more Windows."
TikiWiki CMS/Groupware is a powerful multilingual CMS and groupware that can be used to create all sorts of Web applications, sites, portals, intranets, and extranets. Major features include articles, forums, newsletters, blogs, a file/image gallery, a wiki, drawing, trackers, a
APIviz is a JavaDoc doclet which extends the Javastandard doclet. It generates comprehensiveUML-like class and package diagrams for quickunderstanding of the overall API structure.License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)Changes:An "ugly output" warning in Microsoft Windows wasremoved. A bug where
HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) is a generalpurpose library and file format for storingscientific data. It arranges data into datasets(multidimensional arrays) and groups (a structurefor organizing objects). License: BSD License (original)Changes:A "mounted" field was added to the H5G_info_tstruct. An issue where
The UvumiTools TextArea is a Web plugin that addsusability features to your Web site's textareainput elements. It gives your users a visualindicator of how close they are to the maximuminput size, and it also automatically grows andshrinks the textarea height
The cb2Bib is a tool for rapidly extracting bibliographic references from email alerts, journal Web pages, and PDF files. It facilitates the capture of single references from unformatted and non standard sources. Output references are written in BibTeX. Article files
123 Flash Chat Server is a full-featured chatserver for high-load Web sites. It features arange of customization options, can be smoothlyintegrated with the database of almost any popularportal or forum system including Joomla!, phpBB,PHP-Nuke, and PostNuke, includes plain text chatand
DBSight is a J2EE search platform for instantscalable full-text search on any relationaldatabase, for both beginners and experts. Itfeatures a built-in database crawler followinguser-defined SQL, incremental indexing,user-controllable result ranking, the ability toreturn results with highlights (like Google), andcategorized result counts
mpp.py is a program that generates static Webalbums (HTML) based on the XML exported by GooglePicasa's or from a directory of pictures. It'sfully template based and supports i18n, EXIF, andother features common in software of this type.License: GNU General Public
PHP SlideShow Proxy is a PHP class that interfacesto a JavaScript front end and provides a list ofimage files and a proxy for remote site access. Anexample JavaScript slideshow class is includedalong with an HTML example.
SurrealServices is a full replacement IRC Servicespackage providing NickServ, ChanServ, BotServ,MemoServ, and OperServ, as well as LogServ andConnectServ. Features are loosely based onConferenceRoom/Auspice and Anope, as well asNeoStats. Some security features are alsoavailable such as a TOR (http://tor.eff.org/)detector/banner and a
