Subversion 1.0.3 Security Update Released

  Submitted by Steve General Development 10 Comments
The Subversion development team has released version 1.0.3. This is a security bugfix release and the team suggests all Subversion users upgrade: "Subversion versions up to and including 1.0.2 have a buffer overflow in the date parsing code. Both client and server are vulnerable. The server is vulnerable over both httpd/DAV and svnserve (that is, over http://, https://, svn://, svn+ssh:// and other tunneled svn+*:// methods). Additionally, clients with shared working copies, or permissions that allow files in the administrative area of the working copy to be written by other users, are potentially exploitable."
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QNX Affirms Leadership in POSIX Conformance

QNX 17 Comments
QNX was the first realtime operating system (RTOS) vendor to certify conformance to POSIX.1. Compared to the conformance claimed by other RTOS vendors based on earlier POSIX editions, the 2003 edition of the specification triples the scope of programming interfaces required for conformance. To become POSIX certified, the QNX Neutrino RTOS will be tested with more 1,300 POSIX interfaces. Full certification is expected to be achieved within six to twelve months.
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Apple to Slow Pace of Mac OS X Tweaks

  Submitted by --_==Josh==_-- macOS 113 Comments
Apple Computer plans to continue rapidly bringing out new versions of Mac OS X, but it won't continue at quite the pace it's maintained in recent years. Also, Apple Computer got hit by a double whammy this week when a security researcher publicized a pair of flaws in Mac OS X that when used together could let attackers place a malicious program on a Mac and then run the file, News.com reports.
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Novell’s Linux Desktop Zeros In on Integration

SuSE, openSUSE 62 Comments
Novell Inc., which last year bought SuSE Linux and Ximian, is working on a single desktop product to ship before the end of this year. eWEEK has the details. Elsewhere, OrangeCrate has an interview with Herr Holger Dyroff of SUSE Linux, Novell while ZDNet.UK writes on their review of SuSE Linux 9.1: "Although this latest version of SuSE Linux only warrants a point upgrade, there’s actually more going on under the surface than the numbers would have you believe. Both user interface and underlying services have received upgrades in version 9.1, which also includes more bundled software."
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Interview: Andrea Arcangeli

  Submitted by Jeremy Andrews Linux 9 Comments
Andrea Arcangeli is well known for having completely rewritten and stabilized the virtual memory subsystem in the 2.4 Linux kernel. Many were surprised when Linus Torvalds merged Andrea's VM into 2.4.10, but the new memory subsystem has long since proved itself. Andrea is a 27 year old Linux kernel hacker living in Italy and working for SUSE.
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ARM unveils multi-processor core with Linux SMP support

  Submitted by LinuxDevices Guy Hardware 39 Comments
ARM Ltd. will unveil a unique multi-processor core technology, capable running Linux SMP, at this week's Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, Calif. The "synthesizable multiprocessor" core -- a first for ARM -- is the result of a partnership with NEC Electronics announced last October, and is based on ARM's ARMv6 architecture. ARM's new "MPCore" multiprocessor core can be configured to contain between one and four processors delivering up to 2600 Dhrystone MIPS of aggregate performance, based on clock rates between 335 and 550 MHz.
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FreeBSD 4.10-RC3 Available

  Submitted by Scott Long FreeBSD 15 Comments
FreeBSD 4.10-RC3 is available. Changes from RC2 include a full package set for Alpha, fixes for the twe(4) driver under load, fixes for the twa drives not being seen by sysintall, along with various other bug fixes. i386 ISO images are available now, Alpha ISO images are still uploading.
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Group-Office 2.2 Pro Review

Office 29 Comments
The world has changed due to the humble (and sometimes not so humble) creations in the past. It can be argued that NCSA Mosaic changed the world. Some would argue that it was actually Netscape, but whatever the actual case may be, the web browser has in some way changed the way we look at electronic information.
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A Users’ Review of SuSE Professional 9.1

SuSE, openSUSE 32 Comments
"I want to approach this review a little different then most. There are already a number of very detailed and technically oriented reviews done by others on many Linux Desktop Operating Systems, and SuSE has been well documented by the Jem Report, OSNews, ProLinux, Sydney Morning Herald, Mad Penguin, Linux.com just to name a few. I will just give a personal view of my observations and differences in how they compare to some of the other Linux Desktop Operating Systems I have installed and used." Read the rest of the review here.
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Opennet Ships Red Hat Linux Desktop

Red Hat 19 Comments
"Opennet, the master distributor for Red Hat Linux in the region, has announced the availability of the new Red Hat Desktop, for the Middle East market. The Red Hat Desktop includes the core Linux operating system, open source business applications including an e-mail client, browser and a full-fledged office suite. “The Red Hat Desktop will be made available in configurations which include either Red Hat Network Proxy or Satellite Servers,” says Tewfik Zitouni, managing director, Opennet. A proxy or satellite Server deployment enables several clients to be deployed and managed simultaneously and promises to simplify the ongoing security and management of systems." Read the report here.
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