http://linuxreviews.org/ LinuxReviews - Linux News and Information en Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:37:00 +0100 260 http://linuxreviews.org/news/2009/03/1600_Eyemagnet_Limited_sponsors_the_Gnash_project Technical director Steve Castellotti of Eyemagnet has offered the Gnash proejct "a few paid hours of Gnash development time" Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:13:00 +0100 http://linuxreviews.org/news/2009/02/0800_women_are_irrellevant Barely one percent of all commits to free software projects are done female contributors. Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:13:00 +0100 http://linuxreviews.org/news/2009/01/01_vietnam Minister of Information and Communications Le Doan Hop asked that 100% of servers of IT divisions of government agencies must be installed with open source software by June 30, 2009. Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:13:00 +0100 http://linuxreviews.org/news/2007/10/03_00_flash_player_9_RC Adobe has released an updated release candidate of their proprietary software flash player. It has some new features such as support for H.264 video, but it really does not matter as the license remains totally unacceptable. Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:13:00 +0100 http://linuxreviews.org/news/2007/07/06_01_KDE_4.0_Alpha_2 KDE Community are now immensely proud to have put the second Alpha version of what will probably be the worlds most popular desktop environment in a few years. Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:13:00 +0100 http://linuxreviews.org/news/2007/07/02_The_end_of_Firefox_1.5 Firefox 1.5.0.12 is now rolled out and it is the last security update which will be made for Firefox 1.5.x. Linux distributions will probably update their packages with security patches, but there will be no more official 1.5.x releases. Mozilla Corporation attitude is update to 2.x or switch browser. Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:13:00 +0100 http://linuxreviews.org/news/2007/07/01_SpamAssassin These new versions fix a local user symlink-attack denial of service vulnerability which is possible under extremely rare configurations. Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:13:00 +0100 http://linuxreviews.org/news/2007/05/26_KDE_3-5-7 The seventh maintenance release of KDE 3.5 supports 65 languages, adds a few new features to the KDE PIM package and has piles of bug-fixes. Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:13:00 +0100 http://linuxreviews.org/news/2007/03/05_ProFTPD_Local_privilege_escalation Flaw in the ProFTPD mod_ctrls module in versions <1.3.1_rc1 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the FTP Daemon if the module is enabled. Also, versions prior to 1.3.0a allows remote attackers to execute code. Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:13:00 +0100 http://linuxreviews.org/news/2007/02/11_linux.org.au_videos_available Linux.conf.au was a GNU/Linux conference held January 15 through January 19 at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Alright (384x288) quality OGG videos from the conference are now available. Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:45:00 +0100