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Canonical Officially Kills Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10 Today

May 9 is the last day for Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (Lucid Lynx) and Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating systems from Canonical.Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (Lucid Lynx) was released back in 2010, on April 29, and the support for this Linux distribution has been officially stopped today. Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) was released...

9 May 2013
06:07 GMT

IcedTea-Web Regression Fixed in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10

On April 23, Canonical published, in a security notice, details about an IcedTea-Web regression for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10 operating systems. According to Canonical, IcedTea-Web was unable to access some sites, due to a regression introduced in a previous update. The USN-1804-1 patch fixed vulnerabil...

24 April 2013
15:21 GMT

Firefox 20 Officially Lands in Ubuntu

Canonical announced a few hours ago, April 4, that they updated the default web browser, Mozilla Firefox, to version 20, on all their supported Ubuntu operating systems. Officially released by Mozilla two days ago, on April 2, the 20th release of the popular Firefox web browser brings per-window private browsing, a...

5 April 2013
01:10 GMT

New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical announced last evening, April 2, in a security notice that a new upgrade for the Linux kernel packages in its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system is available, fixing three vulnerabilities found by various developers in the Linux 3.0 kernel packages. These are the three vulnerabilities found in...

3 April 2013
01:59 GMT

Say Goodbye to Ubuntu 8.04 Server, Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop, and Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop

Canonical's Adam Conrad has announced, the formal end of life dates for Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) server, Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) desktop and Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot).Ubuntu LTS releases are supported for a period of five years and Ubuntu 8.04 Server (Hardy Heron) was released April 24, 2008. This means t...

31 March 2013
18:43 GMT

Linux Kernel OMAP4 Vulnerabilities Fixed for Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical announced that a few vulnerabilities had been found in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the OMAP4 kernel of the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system. The CVE-2013-0228, CVE-2013-0268, CVE-2013-0311, CVE-2013-0349, and CVE-2013-1773 Linux kernel vulnerabilities, affected Ubuntu 11.10...

25 March 2013
16:01 GMT

Firefox 19.0.2 Officially Lands in Ubuntu

Canonical announced a few minutes ago, March 8, in a security notice, that they've updated the Mozilla Firefox packages to version 19.0.2, on all their supported Ubuntu operating systems. If you watch out website regularly, you probably know by now that Mozilla officially released the second patch to the stable ...

8 March 2013
14:56 GMT

Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Plugged in Ubuntu 11.10

A security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux kernel affecting the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system, was announced by Canonical. This is the kernel vulnerability found in the Linux kernel packages: CVE-2013-0216, CVE-2013-0217, CVE-2013-0228, CVE-2013-0268, CVE-2013-0311, CVE-2013-0349, and...

6 March 2013
10:42 GMT

OpenJDK 6 Vulnerabilities Fixed in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

On March 6, Canonical published details about OpenJDK 6 vulnerabilities, in a security notice, for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems. According to Canonical, OpenJDK could be made to crash or run programs as you login if it opened a specially crafted file. For example, it w...

6 March 2013
09:34 GMT

Canonical Plugs OMAP4 Kernel Vulnerability in Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical announced that a couple of vulnerabilities had been found in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the OMAP4 kernel of the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system.The CVE-2012-2669, CVE-2012-4508, and CVE-2012-5532 Linux kernel vulnerabilities affected Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) OMAP...

15 February 2013
15:09 GMT

jQuery Vulnerability Repaired for Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

On February 13, Canonical published in a security notice details about a jQuery vulnerability for its Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems. According to Canonical, jQuery could be made to expose sensitive information over the network. It was discovered that jQuery incorrectly handled selecting eleme...

14 February 2013
14:01 GMT

New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical announced a few minutes ago, February 12, in a security notice, that a new kernel upgrade for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system is available, fixing four vulnerabilities found by various developers in the Linux 3.0 kernel packages. These are the four vulnerabilities found in the Linux ker...

12 February 2013
16:31 GMT

QXL Graphics Driver Vulnerability Fixed in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

On February 5, Canonical published in a security notice details about a QXL graphics driver vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 11.10 operating systems. According to Canonical, Guests using the QXL graphics driver could be caused to hang or crash. It was discovered that the QXL graphics driver incorrectly...

5 February 2013
18:01 GMT

OMAP4 Kernel Vulnerability Fixed for Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical announced that a couple of vulnerabilities had been found in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the OMAP4 kernel of the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system. The CVE-2012-4530 Linux kernel vulnerabilities affected Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) OMAP4. According to Canonical, the syste...

17 January 2013
04:26 GMT

Linux Kernel Vulnerability Closed in Ubuntu 11.10

A security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux kernel affecting the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system, was announced by Canonical. This is the kernel vulnerability found in the Linux kernel packages: CVE-2012-4461 and CVE-2012-4530. Several security issues have been fixed in the kernel. For ...

15 January 2013
14:31 GMT

Linux Kernel Exploit Closed in Ubuntu 11.10

A security vulnerability that was discovered in the Linux kernel affecting the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system, was announced by Canonical. This is the kernel vulnerability found in the Linux kernel packages: CVE-2012-5517. The system could have been made to crash under certain conditions. A flaw was...

20 December 2012
13:01 GMT

AppArmor Vulnerability Patched in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10

On December 19, Canonical published, in a security notice, details about an AppArmor update for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) and Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating systems. According to Canonical, a weakness was discovered in the example AppArmor profile for chromium-browser. Dan Rosenberg discovere...

20 December 2012
09:36 GMT

Libav Exploit Plugged in Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical has published in a security notice details about a Libav vulnerability for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system. According to Canonical, Libav (multimedia player, server, encoder and transcoder) could have been made to crash or run programs as the users login, if it opened a specially crafted...

19 December 2012
12:51 GMT

New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Four Ubuntu OSes

Canonical announced a few hours ago, November 30, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating systems is now available, fixing two important security vulnerabilities discovered in ...

30 November 2012
19:10 GMT

Python 3.1 Vulnerabilities Fixed in Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

On October 24, in a security notice Canonical published details about Python 3.1 vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems. According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in Python 3.1. It was discovered that Python would prepend an empty string to sys.path under certain...

25 October 2012
14:21 GMT

Canonical Fixes Libgssglue Vulnerability in Multiple OSes

In a security notice, Canonical has published details about an libgssglue vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems. According to Canonical, privilege escalation could have been done via the GSSAPI_MECH_CONF environment variable, with setuid programs....

16 October 2012
12:03 GMT

Python 2.6 Exploits Fixed in Ubuntu OSes

On October 4th, in a security notice Canonical published details about some Python 2.7 vulnerabilities affecting its Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems. According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in Python 2.6. Multiple vulnerabilities have been unidentified and repair...

5 October 2012
11:31 GMT

Ubuntu 11.10 Linux Kernel Backport Fixed in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Two vulnerabilities, one related to Linux kernel's KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and a flaw in the Linux kernel causing a reference leak, affecting the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system, were fixed in the Oneiric Linux kernel backport. These are the kernel vulnerabilities found in the Oneiric Linux ...

4 October 2012
10:21 GMT

Python 2.7 Exploits Fixed for Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 11.04

On October 2rd, in a security notice Canonical published details about some Python 2.7 vulnerabilities affecting its Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 11.04 operating systems.According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in Python 2.7. It was discovered that urllib and urllib2 modules would process location header...

3 October 2012
13:11 GMT

Emacs Vulnerability Fixed in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical has published in a security notice details about an Emacs vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10 operating systems.According to Canonical, Emacs could be made to run programs, as your login, if it opened a specially crafted file.Hiroshi Oota and Paul Ling discovered that the Emacs ...

29 September 2012
16:31 GMT

New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 11.10 and 11.04

New vulnerabilities were found in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) and Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating systems.The following four Linux kernel vulnerabilities affect Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal): CVE-2012-2745, CVE-2012-3412, CVE-2012-3430 and CVE-2012-3511.The f...

15 September 2012
09:41 GMT

Super OS 11.10 Is Based on Ubuntu 11.10

Hacktolive.org announced today, September 13th, the stable and final version of Super OS 11.10, their Ubuntu 11.10 based Linux distribution. Even if a little late for the party, Super OS 11.10 (formally known as Super Ubuntu) is finally here with some much-needed improvements. Highlights of Super OS 11.10: •...

13 September 2012
09:36 GMT

Firefox 15.0.1 Officially Lands in Ubuntu

With today's updates, September 11th, Canonical upgraded the default web browser to Mozilla Firefox 15.0.1, in all its supported Ubuntu operating systems. The new version, Mozilla Firefox 15.0.1, is here to fix the Private Browsing mode issue that was not working properly in the Mozilla Firefox 15.0 version, a...

11 September 2012
18:51 GMT

Mozilla Thunderbird 15 Officially Lands in Ubuntu

Mozilla officially released the Mozilla Thunderbird 15.0 email and RSS client to the world on August 28th, 2012, bringing a few interesting new features. Thanks to Canonical, Mozilla Thunderbird 15.0 has just arrived a few hours ago on the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Among th...

31 August 2012
02:12 GMT

New Kernel Update Available for All Ubuntu OSes

Canonical announced earlier today, June 29th, in a security notice, that new Linux kernel updates for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) operating systems is now available, fixing three i...

29 June 2012
17:25 GMT

Unity 2D Updated for Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10 and 11.04

Canonical announced earlier today, June 15th, in a security notice, that an update for Unity 2D is now available for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) and Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating systems. The update fixes a bug in Unity 2D that was exposed by the Mozilla Firefox 1...

15 June 2012
12:31 GMT

New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical announced on June 12th, in a security notice, that a new kernel upgrade for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system is available, fixing seven vulnerabilities found by various developers in the 3.0 kernel packages. These are the seven vulnerabilities found in the Linux kernel packages by variou...

13 June 2012
02:57 GMT

New OMAP4 Kernel Vulnerabilities Fixed for Ubuntu OSes

On May 31th, Canonical announced that new vulnerabilities were found in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the OMAP4 edition of the Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems. The following two vulnerabilities affect the Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS OMAP4 kernel: CVE-2012-1601...

1 June 2012
03:11 GMT

New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical announced on May 25th, in a security notice, that a new kernel upgrade for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system is available. These are the two vulnerabilities found in the Linux kernel packages by various developers: CVE-2012-1601 and CVE-2012-2123. You can click on each one to see how it ...

26 May 2012
13:51 GMT

OMAP4 Kernel Vulnerabilities Fixed for Ubuntu 11.10

On May 17th, Canonical announced that new vulnerabilities were found in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the OMAP4 edition of the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system. The following four Linux kernel vulnerabilities affect Ubuntu 11.10 OMAP4: CVE-2011-4086, CVE-2012-1090, CVE-2012-1097, CVE-...

18 May 2012
02:30 GMT

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 198

The following Linux news were published last week: the stable and final version of the Xfce 4.10 desktop environment has been released, bringing interesting features; Mark Shuttleworth talked to Ubuntu users on the usual "Ask Mark" session on IRC; The GIMP 2.8 image editor has been released and it brings lots of new ...

5 May 2012
20:33 GMT

Thunderbird 12 Officially Lands in Ubuntu

Canonical announced earlier today, May 4th, that the Mozilla Thunderbird 12 email client landed in their supported Ubuntu distributions. The actual version of Thunderbird included is 12.0.1, and it has been uploaded in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 11.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Mozilla Thunderbird 12.0 come...

4 May 2012
18:30 GMT

New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical announced on the first day of May, in a security notice, that a new kernel upgrade for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system is available. These are the kernel vulnerabilities found in the kernel packages: CVE-2011-4086, CVE-2011-4347, CVE-2012-0045, CVE-2012-1090, CVE-2012-1097, CVE-2012-114...

2 May 2012
02:11 GMT

How to Upgrade Ubuntu 11.10 to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) users how to upgrade their operating system to the brand-new Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) release. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, also known as the Precise Pangolin, arrived on April 26th, 2012 and is the 16th release of the Ubuntu operating system. To see w...

1 May 2012
14:11 GMT

Introducing Ubuntu ManPages Search Lens for Unity

Following our previous articles, Full Text Search Lens, GMusicBrowser Scope, Launchpad Lens, Dictionary Lens, Stock Quotes Lens, Cooking Lens, Music Search Scopes, Reddit Lens, Tomboy Lens, Ask Ubuntu Lens, Ubuntu Flickr/Shotwell Photos Lens, Ubuntu Spotify Scope, Ubuntu DeviantArt Scope, Ubuntu SSH Lens, Ubuntu...

4 April 2012
16:31 GMT

How to Install Firefox 12 on Ubuntu

The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu users how to "unofficially" update their systems to the Mozilla Firefox 12.0 web browser. Mozilla Firefox 12 has not yet been released, it is in Beta state at the moment, but it will bring features such as the ability to paste URLs in the download manager window, line number...

3 April 2012
06:41 GMT

How To Change the Login Screen Wallpaper on Ubuntu 11.10

The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu 11.10 users how to make their favorite wallpaper appear at the login screen. As you all know, Unity Greeter is now the default login manager in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), and it will still be available in the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), due for release ...

30 March 2012
14:41 GMT

New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical announced a few minutes ago (March 27th), in a security notice, that a new kernel upgrade for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system is available. The update is here to fix seven security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers. The flaws are related to VL...

27 March 2012
08:57 GMT

Thunderbird 11 Officially Lands in Ubuntu 11.10

One week after Firefox 11 officially landed in Ubuntu 11.10 last week, a few hours ago (March 21st) Canonical announced that the Mozilla Thunderbird 11.0 email client is now available on the official software repositories of the Oneiric Ocelot operating system. Thunderbird 11.0 was officially released on March 13th...

22 March 2012
03:17 GMT

Ultimate Edition 3.2 Is Based on Ubuntu, Has Unity

TheeMahn proudly announced last night, March 16th, the immediate availability for download of the Ultimate Edition 3.2 operating system. Ultimate Edition 3.2 is now based on the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system and includes the Unity interface, as well as the GNOME 3.2 desktop environment and its Fall...

17 March 2012
03:46 GMT

Firefox 11 Officially Lands in Ubuntu 11.10

Officially released on March 13th, as planed, the Mozilla Firefox 11.0 web browser brought some highly anticipated features. With today's updates, Canonical upgraded the default web browser in its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system to Firefox 11. Besides the usual bug fixes and small improvements,...

16 March 2012
08:55 GMT

Anonymous-OS Live CD Based on Ubuntu is Fake

Four days ago someone registered a new project on the SourceForge website, called Anonymous-OS, pretending that they are Anonymous. Based on Ubuntu 11.10 and powered by the new MATE desktop environment created by the Linux Mint developers, the Anonymous-OS tries to be a Linux distribution packed with "hacking" tool...

15 March 2012
02:19 GMT

Light Display Manager Vulnerability Fixed for Ubuntu 11.10

A security vulnerability that was discovered in Light Display Manager by Ryan Lortie, this time affecting the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system, was announced by Canonical. Light Display Manager could be made to delete files as root. Ryan Lortie discovered that a guest session script bundled in the Lig...

13 March 2012
11:43 GMT

Introducing Ubuntu Launchpad Lens for Unity

Following our previous articles, Dictionary Lens, Stock Quotes Lens, Cooking Lens, Music Search Scopes, Reddit Lens, Tomboy Lens, Ask Ubuntu Lens, Ubuntu Flickr/Shotwell Photos Lens, Ubuntu Spotify Scope, Ubuntu DeviantArt Scope, Ubuntu SSH Lens, Ubuntu Binary Clock Lens, Ubuntu YouTube Lens and Scope, Ubun...

9 March 2012
13:21 GMT

How to Install Firefox 11 in Ubuntu

The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu users how to "unofficially" update their systems to the Mozilla Firefox 11.0 web browser. Mozilla Firefox 11 has not yet been released, but it will bring features such as the ability to migrate history, bookmarks and cookies from Google Chrome, automatic synchronization of y...

6 March 2012
12:21 GMT


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