2004 News archive
2004 News archive
BT Exact, a very popular IPV6 provider in Europe, is down until further notice.
They are currently having a router problem and it may take them days to resolve it.
One person is convicted for copyright violations in a case brought forward by the special Norwegian police branch Økocrim. One person was also convicted for Aiding and abetting.
Both got sentenced to 120 days of substitary prison and a free of 3000 NOK each for violating åndsverkloven part §54.
GAIM 1.0.3 released and available for all major Linux distributions
GAIM is a very advanced instant messaging client with support for all the major protocols used today (jabber, icq and so on). This version is mainly a bugfix release.
Slackware developer Patrick needs your help acquiring penicillin and information about the disease Actinomycosis.
Patrick is seeking out to the Linux community for anyone with relevant knowledge about the rare disease Actinomycosis. He is currently off his job and expects to be so for a few more weeks. He is very eager to get back to work quickly. Help him if you have the knowledge.- Gentoo Linux 2004.3 released, mainly a bug fix release.
The release tools have been made more robust and should now be slightly easier to use. 2004.3 has the compiler GCC 3.4 as first choice on x86, amd64 and pcc. The teams involved in porting to the the various architectures are now tied more tightly together, and this version has many under the hood improvements that make Gentoo a more enjoyable experience on non-x86 systems. - 2.1 million have downloaded Mozilla Firefox 1.0 so far, two days after the release. Firefox is probably the slickest browser ever.
This is the fastest spread of a product in the history of the Mozilla foundation. - Fedora Core 3 available for x86 and x86-64
The new version features the 2.6.9 Linux kernel, the windowing system Xorg 6.8.1, the desktops GNOME 2.8 and KDE 3.3.0, uses GCC 3.4 and has full support for the secure SELinux standard. - Peer to peer network traffic may account for up to 85% of Internets bandwidth usage
University of Turun in Finland configured a very advanced packet shaper that they used to identify what was using Internet bandwidth by content rather than ports. They found that BitTorrent and Direct Connet alone used up half their bandwidth. University of Turun later used the they later used the statistics to reduce the total network traffic to levels marginals of what it were before they put their new packet filter in place. - Firefox 1.0 Release Candidate released
The release candidate for the upcoming 1.0 version of the extremely popular web browser Firefox is available. Improved printing, new toolbar button icons and better tab management is the new highlights. - Nmap 3.75 Released: More Stable and better OS fingerprint identification
Nmap 3.75 was announced Monday, but came with a bad gpg fingerprint. Developer Fyodor today confermed is was a valid release and that mutt screwed up the signature. The new version cat detect 1,353 different Operating systems, including IP telephones, modified XBoxes and Apple's AirPort Express WAP. - Mandrakesoft Move 2.0 released, features better support for USB storage devices
Mandrake Move is a Live-CD version of the Mandrake Linux distribution meant to allow you to bring your Linux desktop and personal files with you to anywhere where you have access to a computer. It also allows you to try how Linux looks and feels without installing anything on your machine. - Linux Kernel 2.6.9 released! Improvements in USB, SELinux fixes and the usual load of bug fixes are among the news.
Some of the bug fixes solve deadlocks and crashes, users who have switched to the new 2.6.x development line should seriously consider upgrading. The differences between 2.6.9-rc4 and the final version are small and mostly compiler fixes and small patches, the differences between 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 are quote signifficant. - It is time for mail administrators to learn about DomainKeys, a new (for now useless) standard aimed to separate spam from real e-mail messages.
Google has now implemented Yahoos new proposed anti-spam standard DomainKeys, allowing mail transfer agent software to check if a message who claims to be from gmail comes from them or a spoofed source. There is a experimental open source implementation available, sendmail and qmail support is being developed. - Mozilla Firefox preview release downloaded more than 5,112,591 times
The Firefox web browser is rapidly gaining popularity. The official download count has now passed five million downloads, but this is only the tip of the iceberg because many download the browser directly from ftp mirrors and other sources who are not included in the official number. - EFF Challenges Secret Government Order to Shut Down Media Websites
- Microsoft now holds a patent on the extremely general term: System and method for dynamically adjusting data values and enforcing valid combinations of the data in response to remote user input
- KDE 3.3.1 is released! This maintenance release fixes many bugs in KHTML, flagship media player Juk (kdemultimedia), kstars and the kdepim packages (kontact, kmail and korganizer)
- Fedora Core 3 available soon
- FBI seizes Global Indymedia Servers. Reasons Unknown
- SUSE 9.2 is released by Novell, featuring 2.6 kernel, KDE 3.3, Gnome 2.6 and Evolution 2.0.
- OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 available! This is the most important Office suite of our time. It is based on StarOffice, free as in free speech, available for both Windows and Linux and based on open file-formats.
- Never visit or use trusted services like CityBank or Paypal when their address are shown as something like 211.158.34.250/citifi/
- Important Open-Source people in car accident
- Sphinx-4 1.0 beta available: Speak freely and be understood by Linux! Linux lacks working voice recognition software, something that could help disabled people work with computers and also potentially allow you to interact more effectively with your computer.
- Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 4 Available for Linux, Windows og Macintosh
- LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in London 6-7 October 2004
- Evolution 2.0.0 has been released! Evolution is the GNOME group-ware application aimed at making beginners and Microsoft Outlook users comfortable when they need to send mail or keep track of their time.
- Krita Preview Available, KOffice gets ready for image manipulation! Developers aim at making a user-friendly image manipulation program where users with no computer experience or slim experience with other image programs like Photoshop and Gimp should feel right at home.
- Mandrakelinux 10.1 Community released
- Linux-vendor RedHat increased Q2 net earnings pr share by 225%
- Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR downloaded 1,3 million times in one week
- New version of the popular KDE office suite KOffice Released
- Fedora Core 3 Test 2 announced
- Bad bug in SUS utility allows users to gain root access
- Simpler to make KDE applications for Windows
- Possibly serious security risk in imlib-library, Linux users are urged to update
- DNS Root Servers are now Updated every 5 minutes
- X Window System Version 11 Release 6.8.0
- X.org 6.8RC4, the future of X is here
- Debian projects kills Microsofts Sender ID identification proposal
- Two Denial of Service conditions found in the Apache2 web-servers mod_ssl module
- Creative Commons holds benefit concert in New York City September 21st
- Sender Policy Framework Not Effective Against Spam
- FreeDNS down 5 hours due because of E-Bay Scammer, making thousands of websites unavailable
- Nmap 3.70 released. Nmap is a port scanner utility for security auditing and network exploration
- AdvanceMAME and AdvanceMESS v0.86 Released! The unofficial MAME and MESS versions has better support for special monitors like Arcade Monitors and TVs compared to the official versions.
- Linux Cell Phones are coming, 1.1 million Linux-based phones expected to be shipped this year
- GmailFS - Use your Gmail account as a 1 GB File-System
- Do not use Kernel 2.6.8.x if you want to burn CDs and DVDs
- Knoppix 3.6 aKademy Edition Announced at KDE World Summit
- GNUstep Live CD 0.5 presentation at LinuxBeta
- KDE 3.3 released and available for Debian Unstable, SuSE, Yoper, Slackware, Solaris and Gentoo Linux
- KDE 3.3 available for Debian Unstable
- RSYNC exploit: A path-sanitizing bug may allow an attacker to read and write files outside the rsync directory.
- Check what URL is actually used when using banks or submitting credit card information! The number of Phishing scams is increasing.
- Norwegian Police has equipment capable of listening in on IP-telephone conversations
- BestCrypt for Linux v1.5-7 released, fixes issues with 2.6.x kernels, issues Fedora Core 2 and adds support for SuSE.
- Linux Kernel 2.6.8.1 released
- The demand for Linux knowledge in the job marked it insignificant, Java expertise is still the most sought skill
- The KDE team is pleased to announce KDE 3.3.0 rc2.
- Bug Season continues: All the recently discovered security holes it making GNU/Linux look like a cheese. The pressure is on developers to close all open bugs and restore Open Source's reputation.
- OnebaseGo 2.1 Live-CD (Bootable Linux Distribution) released, includes KDE 3.3 Beta2 and Koffice 1.3.2
- Linux kernel security vulnerability affecting 2.4 up to 2.6.7 kernels found in the code handling 64bit file offset pointers
- New libpng package closes buffer overflow and other security vulnerabilities
- Mozilla Roll-out: Firefox 0.9.3, Mozilla Suite 1.7.2 and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 are available, fixes serious security issues.
- DOOM 3 RELOADED has landed and has already become incredibly popular.
- Enlightenment Foundation with first Libraries Preview Release, codenamed Asparagus.
- Gentoo 2004.2 Released, available for x86, AMD64, HPPA, and SPARC. The biggest change: X.org-X11 is now the default XServer
- txt2tags 2.0 is released. txt2tags is a single python script that converts text files with minimal markup to into formatted HTML, SGML and other document formats.
- Yoper V2 Development (2.9.1) Released, includes the new KDE Beta 2
- SuSE and Gentoo has made new Samba packages available, closing two buffer overflow security holes that may allow arbitrary code to be executed.
- More Linux kernel flaws: Multiple DoS and permission vulnerabilities
- KDE 3.3 Beta 2 Kollege Released, source and packages for Gentoo, Slackware, Suse and Yoper are available.
- Gaim 0.80 is released. Drag and drop is greatly improved, third party software support is better and it now uses the GTK+ 2.4 file dialog.
- Serious PHP memory_limit remote vulnerability
- Stealth worm uses anti-debugging technique
- The Movie Girl Next Door is awesome
- KDE 3.2.3 and 3.3 Beta 1 Released
- Xine 0.99.2 Released
- Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator v0.84 Released
- Reading your mail is legal in Bostin
- Wikipedia Passes 300,000 Articles making it the worlds largest encyclopedia
- Catwoman movie looks bad
- US Dept. of Homeland Security recommends not using IE
- China's New Generation Of Ipv9 Network Technology Ready
- Grouping task bar icons patented by Microsoft
- Beastie Boys' New Album Secretly Installs DRM Code
- Rediff announces free 1 GB mail accounts
- First virus for mobile phones discovered
- Linux Kernel 2.6.7 is released
- Norway's Second City Ditches Windows for Linux
- New Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered
- Two new Internet Explorer security holes found
