Paul Starzetz has found a serious bug in Linux kernels. By exploiting the vulnerability local attackers could gain root privilege. All recent Linux kernels affected. The bug has already been corrected in recent released 2.4.29-rc1 Linux kernel.

To help TXSeries Encina users leverage the J2EE environment, this article describes how to develop Web-based applications using the Encina J2EE Connector. It walks you through various programming and configuration techniques for developing and deploying applications using the Encina J2EE Connector, introduced in TXSeries V5.1.

Interview with the man being sued by Apple for leaking a prerelease of 10.4 to the Apple torrent site and the admin of the bittorrent tracker.

SUSE Linux 9.2 was released to mirrors today. Novell is providing both the traditional Net Install Disc as well as DVD ISO's for i386 and x86_64. Here's the Distrowatch Link.

Problem: Even the most powerful PC’s become non responsive during resource-intensive computations, such as graphic design, media, image rendering and manipulating. The traditional solution has been to upgrade to a faster computer and throw more computing power at the problem to lessen the wait-time. But there's a simple solution that utilizes multiple machines, but without using grid/clustering. For now, this involves a hack, but how hard would it be for an OS vendor to streamline this process?

You might think of Gentoo as a bleeding-edge distribution for development workstations, but the simple packaging system can make it a good choice for any production system that needs to stay up to date.

More features and fixes for the re-implementation of Java, Classpath.

"I love working with many distributions and always have two or three installed on my computer. In the end, SUSE meets my needs as a developer, consultant, and home user better than any other single distribution. I can run my home PC and a multinational corporation with the same code -- that is bang for your buck." Read more here.

For some time now, Sun has been trying to push its way into non-proprietary Unix markets, and Solaris 10 is its crowning achievement. An abundance of innovative new features, mostly aimed at administrators rather than users, contributes further to Solaris 10's value proposition. An interesting balance of administrative features and support for new hardware implies Sun is trying hard to maintain its current niche, as well as move into server and workstation territories where Linux has encroached. Read more here.

Daniel is a software design engineer on the Avalon team and he's responsible for the 3D features of Avalon. Here he gives us a demo of Avalon 3D. Originally designed to only run on the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, Avalon is now supported on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. In fact, the demo here is done on XP.

As stated on their website, "AROS is a portable and free desktop operating system aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1, while improving on it in many areas." ArosMax is a version of Aros that can be run from within a Windows environment for easy evaluation.

Bill Gates is coming to your living room, whether you like it or not. Read the interview here.

With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI, access MySQL or PostgreSQL databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your Basic program into many languages, create network applications easily, and so on...

Since installing x64 and VS.NET 2005 Dec04 CTP, I've ported a few apps to 64bit. Its usually pretty easy. The hardest part I had was caused by a UNICODE define.