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by Cyprix as at Feb 8 2012 12:39am
Jan 23 2012
10:54pm
Christophe Fergeau: Unpacking Boxes...
For the impatient people running Fedora 16 but who still want to get an aperçu of Boxes, today's your lucky day! I set up a preview repository with all the needed package to ... more
Jan 23 2012
8:00pm
DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 440
This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Let's talk tiny - Tiny Core Linux 4.2 News: Mandriva and Pardus status update, Fedora packages, Gentoo zero-day packaging, Bodhi's Bl... more
Jan 23 2012
3:04pm
Kernel security vulnerable
We have a vulnerable for all kernel up 2.6.39 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-0056 It's important problem! Many distros fix it allready (or fix tomorrow... more
Jan 23 2012
3:33am
Shlomi Fish: git tip: adding remotes to .git/config
When working with the git version control system and editing .git/config to add a new remote, some people may be tempted to copy and change the origin remote that reads somet... more
Jan 22 2012
9:24am
Result of first real test with split of runtime glibc 32 bits in a separate package
With a glibc package without elf 32 binaries, and gcc libraries also split, what holds removal of the 32 bit libc6 package in a minimal chroot is: # LC_ALL=C rpm -e libc6 ... more
Jan 22 2012
7:32am
Cooker upgrade still broken
I just made a simple test upgrading a cooker chroot a few weeks old, and the problem still happens. For the sake of helping anybody willing to quickly fix it, if you atte... more
Jan 21 2012
8:28am
Is build node 8 broken?
I tried 3 times to build packages for ed 1.6. And all 3 times 32 bit build failed with ------ F: [iurt2] [iurt2] Command failed: sudo chroot /export/home/mandrake//chroot_tm... more
Jan 20 2012
6:52pm
Bruno Cornec: In memoriam Gustav Leonhardt
Je déteste transformer ce blog en rubrique nécrologique. Mais après Montserrat Figueras et Alain Recordier, j’ai appris par un article du Monde de Renaud Machart la dispa... more
Jan 20 2012
1:49pm
Juan Luis Baptiste: My take on SOPA and all that crap
Today I was reading a facebook comment from a musician about the closure of Megaupload, which I ended commenting too giving my take on that and all of the stuff hurdling aroun... more
Jan 19 2012
5:03pm
Decision on Mandriva shutdown delayed
The French GNU/Linux company Mandriva has earned a stay of execution with an "external entity" expressing an interest in acquiring the company, according to the company blog... more
Jan 19 2012
5:03pm
Decision on Mandriva shutdown delayed
The French GNU/Linux company Mandriva has earned a stay of execution with an "external entity" expressing an interest in acquiring the company, according to the company blog... more
Jan 19 2012
2:15pm
Adam Williamson: FUDCon Blacksburg: My presentation, Cloud 0.1
In deference to Adam Young, I’m going to try and write a series of broken-down posts on FUDCon, rather than one or two giant mish-mash-y summaries. So, this one’s about th... more
Jan 19 2012
5:45am
Wednesday's security updates
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
Fedora has updated F15: glibc (heap overflow). Mandriva has updated perl (2010.1, 2011.0; ES5.0: multiple vulnerabilities).... more
Jan 19 2012
2:58am
Sergio Rafael Lemke: Clementine weird analyser
Just pushed an updated Clementine-1.0 to Mandriva 2011 Main/backports, while testing i noticed this weird analyser: Do not use it after lunch!  ... more
Jan 18 2012
9:34am
gcc 4.7
Hi, My plan for gcc 4.7 in Mandriva is in 2+ months to have it default. In the meantime, it could be the moment for some changes that were suggested, and these include: ... more
Jan 18 2012
9:01am
Mandriva Team: The future
We would like to inform that a proposal to acquire Mandriva has been submitted by an external entity. As required in such a situation, the major shareholders have been asked t... more
Jan 18 2012
8:46am
Équipe Mandriva: Le futur
Ces quelques mots pour vous informer que Mandriva a fait l’objet d’une offre de rachat par un tiers. Comme une telle offre est sujette à l’acceptation des actionnaires ... more
Jan 18 2012
6:04am
Security advisories for Tuesday
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
Fedora has updated rubygem-rack (F16; F15: denial of service) and wordpress (F16; F15: cross-site scripting). Mandriva has updated openssl (2010.1, ES5.0; 2011.0: multiple vu... more
Jan 18 2012
12:14am
Aligning Linux Distributions with Presidential Hopefuls
Most politicians probably don't use Linux. After all, some of them have barely figured out computers at all. But since the American presidential campaigning season is once aga... more
Jan 17 2012
11:59pm
Luis Menina: Feuilles de personnages Star Wars D6
Cela fait un peu plus de deux ans que je me suis mis au jeu de rôle Star Wars, un peu par hasard. En cherchant des idées de sorties sur le net, je me suis rendu compte qu'un... more