The most important thing that happened this week in the Ubuntu world was the kernel vulnerability found in Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Edubuntu 8.04. This kernel vulnerability could allow a local attacker to cause a system crash, leading to a DoS (Denial of Service). The security flaw can be fixed if you upgrade you... |
9 June 2008
02:48 GMT |
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This week brought all you Ubuntu fans out there a new tutorial - a tutorial that presented us with a few Alternative Installation Methods for Ubuntu 8.04: from a USB stick, from a network server and from a local or external hard disk! The Live USB method is the "star" of this guide, as it allows a portable installati... |
2 June 2008
02:36 GMT |
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Meet Ubuntu Ultimate Edition 1.8. Launched on Thursday and dubbed Hardy Hotrod, this version was build off Ubuntu 8.04 (manually, without the help of Reconstructor utility), and it comes in two flavors, one for 32 bit platforms and the other one for 64 bit ones. Ultimate Edition comes with everything you might need. ... |
26 May 2008
02:38 GMT |
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A major security hole was discovered this week in the random number generator used by OpenSSL, OpenSSH and OpenVPN packages. So, if you are using Ubuntu (any version), Debian or any other distribution that's based on them, you are advised to update immediately! Because of this issue, some of the encryption keys ... |
19 May 2008
02:44 GMT |
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Well, Ubuntu Open Week ended on Saturday and we can say that it was another success. I personally attended some of the sessions and it was a pleasure to talk to the Ubuntu developers and receive interesting and helpful answers to some of my questions regarding different aspects of the Ubuntu operating system. My bigg... |
5 May 2008
02:15 GMT |
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On Monday, Canonical announced that Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition would be available on 24th April, released at the same time with the Desktop Edition. The 8.04 Long Term Support (LTS) Server Edition is Canonical'sfourth server release and will be supported for five years with maintenance and security updates.U... |
29 April 2008
03:02 GMT |
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On Monday, a San Francisco non-profit foundation joined swords with Untangle, a San Mateo-based open-source vendor in order to co-sponsor an all-day "Installfest for Schools" event. The new approach to install-fests targets 500 refurbished computers with older hardware that will be donated to underprivileged students... |
10 March 2008
03:44 GMT |
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Great, no... wonderful news this week, as CNR (Click 'N Run) was released for Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 distributions. The One-Click Linux Software Installation service (CNR), provided by Linspire, is a FREE and easy way to access over 37,000 desktop Linux products, packages and libraries, all with a single mouse cli... |
10 December 2007
02:35 GMT |
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